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El escaneo climático: Una herramienta para la planificación del desarrollo

Libelula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

El escaneo climático o climate screening es una herramienta que sirve para evaluar una política, programa o proyecto de desarrollo, a la luz de los impactos del cambio climático (actuales o potenciales). Su objetivo es identificar la vulnerabilidad de determinada(s) política(s), proyecto(s),...

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Global Liquidity, House Prices and the Macroeconomy: Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Economies

Rebucci, Alessandro; Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Céspedes, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015

This paper first compares house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using a new quarterly house price dataset covering the period 1990- 2012. It is found that that house prices in emerging economies grow faster, are more volatile, less persistent and less synchronized across...

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Beyond Borders: The New Regionalism in Latin America Title: Más allá de las fronteras: El nuevo regionalismo en América Latina

Galindo, Arturo; Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Machinea, … - Inter-American Development Bank

from free trade areas to customs unions. This Report examines such dimensions of integration as market access … of sub-regional integration initiatives, the Doha multilateral trade agenda, and North-South initiatives such as the Free … Trade Area of the Americas and inter-regional agreements with the European Union.Abstract: La integración regional ha …

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Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the Eighties

Hausmann, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1995

regimes for countries subject to large and frequent trade shocks. In addition, the analysis can be simplified for two reasons …

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Why Do Countries Float the Way They Float?

Hausmann, Ricardo; Panizza, Ugo; Stein, Ernesto H. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves and allow very different volatilities in the movements of the exchange rate relative to the...

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Trade and Employment: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Márquez, Gustavo; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

This paper examines the impact of the recent wave of trade liberalization and economic reform on employment. Four … alternative measures of openness and four measures of the real exchange rate are used to measure the impact of trade reforms on … manufacturing and economy-wide employment. Across a wide range of specifications, trade reforms have had a negative, albeit small …

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Inflation Targeting and Quantitative Tightening: Effects of Reserve Requirements in Peru

Armas, Adrián; Castillo, Paul; Vega, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

This paper provides an overview of the reserve requirement measures undertaken by the Central Bank of Peru. It provides a rationale for the use of these instruments as well as empirical evidence of their effectiveness. In general, the results show that tightening reserve requirements has the...

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Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina's Lessons

Izquierdo, Alejandro; Calvo, Guillermo A.; Talvi, Ernesto - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This paper offers an alternative explanation for t he fall of Argentina's Convertibility Program based on the country's vulnerability to Sudden Stops in capital flows. Sudden Stops are typically accompanied by a substantial increase in the real exchange rate that wreaks havoc in countries that...

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Financial Turmoil and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime

Hausmann, Ricardo; Gavin, Michael; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

Financial turmoil is becoming a fact of life in Latin America. The 1990s have been characterized by enormous volatility in the magnitude and cost of capital flows. The correlation of capital swings across disparate countries suggests that the quality of emerging market policies in addition to...

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A Decade of Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It

Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

During the past decade, structural polices in the region have been aimed increasingly at improving economic efficiency and reducing government interference in economic decisions. The effects of this shift have not yet been accurately evaluated due to the lack of systematic measurements of the...

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