(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se genera una tipología de crisis de la balanza de pagos con expectativas racionales, específicamente crisis de liquidez y solvencia. La aplicación ex post de dispositivos de rescate financiero oficial de magnitud suficiente es una...

This paper studies quality of life in urban neighborhoods in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. First, hedonic price regressions for residential prices are augmented with neighborhood characteristics, based on a real estate database with indicators on each property’s distance to public...

This paper explores the role of social networks in determining the participation of Bolivian women in income-generating activities. The empirical analysis intends to explore the impact of this new social variable on the economic choices of women and its relative importance with respect to other...

This paper tests whether Rodrik`s (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. We measure the quality of conflict management institutions with two...

This paper considers the effects of trade unions on the education sector in Argentina. We have provided a substantial amount of new information and we have found useful preliminary results on some of the channels of union influence on the performance of this crucial sector. We find that those...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) La adopción de programas de empleo de emergencia y capacitación a corto plazo para dar apoyo a los ingresos de la población afectada por episodios de inestabilidad económica desde 1995 revela el fracaso de los mecanismos tradicionales de apoyo al...

Theoretical literatures on procedural utility and the psychological benefits of political participation suggest that people who participate in political activities will be more satisfied with their lives because of the resulting feelings of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Individual-level...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) El desajuste financiero se está convirtiendo en algo corriente en América Latina. Los años 90 se caracterizaron por una gran inestabilidad en la magnitud y el costo de los flujos de capitales. La correlación de los vaivenes de los capitales entre...

This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining credit union (CU) loan delinquency and profitability in developing countries. It also offers an empirical estimation for a unique sample of Latin American CUs.

Uma das razões da ineficiência educacional brasileiro encontra-se na forma de gestão escolar. Desde as eleições diretas para governador em 1982 deslanchou-se no país um processo de difusão de inovações em gestão escolar. Este proceso atingiu velocidade e intensidade distintas nos...