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Hoping to avoid an economic slowdown during 1994, Mexico tried to maintain its quasi-pegged exchange rate while … devaluation of the peso inevitable, considering particularly Mexico's policy actions during 1994-as well as options Mexico did not … will enable Mexico to recover much more quickly from this crisis than it did after its 1982 crash. …
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The authors of this article suggest that many of the explanations for the 1994 crisis are based on questionable assumptions and dubious analysis. They contend that, when trying to explain the crisis, most authors have concentrated on the wrong economic "fundamentals." They challenge the...
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depends on the average length of maturity of government debt. Our analysis suggests that for a country, like Mexico, with a … very short maturity structure of debt, the crisis zone is large and includes levels of debt as low as that in Mexico before …
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This paper claims that the roots of Mexico's balance-of-payments crisis are found in the prevailing high degree of … sustainability of currency pegs. Econometric analysis suggests that 1/2 of Mexico's reserve losses could be accounted for by these …
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This paper proposes a simple investment model that permits a test of the relative importance of Mexico's terms of trade … decline, the reversal in net capital inflows, and the debt overhang, in explaining Mexico's investment decline in the early … rise in the relative price of investment goods and further that the deterioration in Mexico's international terms of trade …
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constraints on its international borrowing. We compare the predictions of this theoretical example with events in Mexico from 1987 …
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suggests that causality, in some sense, flows from the Mexico City investor community to the Wall Street investor community. …
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Mexico's most recent economic crisis took many in the international business community by surprise. In early December … in Mexico's nominal exchange rate quickly developed into a broader financial crunch felt in and outside Mexico. The …
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