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Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...

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Juvenile Unemployment in Interwar Britain: The Emergence of a Problem

Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

During the 1980s youth unemployment rates have persistently exceeded unemployment rates for adults, in Britain as in … other OECD countries. In the interwar period, youth unemployment rates in Britain were dramatically lower than those for … industrial composition of employment, and economy-wide changes in the share of juveniles employed (due to changes in youth …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro F; Kinoshita, Yuko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms –privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization– as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

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Market Access for Sale: Latin America's Lobbying for US Tariff Preferences

Kee, Hiau Looi; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American countries. The basic framework is one developed by Grossman and Helpman (1994) that is extended to explain the relationship between foreign lobbying and tariff...

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Employment Laws in Developing Countries

Djankov, Simeon; Ramalho, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We survey the research on the effect of employment laws in developing countries, using papers published since 2004. The survey is further supported by cross-country correlation analyses. Both exercises show that developing countries with rigid employment laws tend to have larger informal sectors...

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Common Factors in Latin America’s Business Cycles

Aiolfi, Marco; Catão, Luis A. V.; Timmermann, Allan G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a common factor approach to reconstruct new business cycle indices for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico ("LAC-4") from an unprecedentedly comprehensive dataset spanning 135 years. We establish the robustness of our indices through a variety of tests, use the indices to explore...

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Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence

Bértola, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this essay we analyze the relation between long-term growth and institutional development. Relative backwardness has been a constant feature of the history of Latin America. In the wake of Independence the gap between Latin America and the industrializing world was already wide and widened...

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Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

Bates, Robert H; Coatsworth, John H; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...

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Lending Booms: Latin America and the World

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Landerretche, Oscar; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Recent theories on the origins of crises put lending booms at the root of financial collapses. Yet lending booms may be a natural consequence of economic development and fluctuations. So, are lending booms dangerous? In this Paper, we investigate this question empirically using a broad sample of...

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Export Diversification: What’s behind the Hump?

Cadot, Olivier; Carrère, Céline; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 159 countries over 17 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4’998 product lines) we look for action at the “intensive” and “extensive” margins...

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