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Financial Education and Savings Outcomes in Individual Development Accounts

Clancy, Margaret; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are subsidized savings accounts. Unlike other subsidized savings accounts such as Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) or 401(k) plans, IDAs are targeted to the poor, provide subsidies through matches rather than through tax breaks, and require...

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Measuring Savings

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Development depends on saving. But what exactly is saving, and how is it measured? This paper defines saving and describes several measures of financial savings. The measures account for the passage of time and for the three stages of saving: putting in (depositing), keeping in (maintaining a...

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Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

Moore, Amanda; Beverly, Sondra; Schreiner, Mark; … - EconWPA - 2001

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are special savings accounts designed to help people build assets to reach life goals and to achieve long-term security. Account-holders receive matching funds as they save for purposes such as buying a first home, attending job training, going to college,...

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Policy Reform in Networks Infrastructure: The Case of Mexico

Tovar-Landa, Ramiro - EconWPA - 1997

This paper addresses the recent Mexico experience in the opening to competition in networks infrastructure mainly in …

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Un Análisis de cointegración con corrección de errores de las Fugas de Capital y la Inestabilidad Política en México , An econometric model of capital flight in Mexico

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Andrade, Cesar Alfredo Olivas - EconWPA - 2005

Resumen El presente estudio se centra en analizar los factores que provocan el éxodo de capital en México, entre los … interés entre México y Estados Unidos y el diferencial en las tasas de inflación México-Estados Unidos. De igual forma, se … México. Asimismo, se plantean los modelos más comunes para la estimación de la fuga de capital aplicados a México. Abstract …

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Restaurant Prices and the Mexican Peso

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Coronado, Roberto - EconWPA - 2004

Mexican peso. Sample data are from El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. A battery of statistical tests indicate that the …

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Short-Run Price Dynamics in Mexico

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Tinajero, Roberto - EconWPA - 2004

A theoretical model of inflationary dynamics is developed for Mexico. Estimation is carried out using ARIMA transfer … model satisfy standard statistical criteria. Results indicate that prices in Mexico respond relatively quickly to money …

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Inflationary Pressure Determinants in Mexico

Jr, Thomas M Fullerton; Calderon, Cuauhtemoc - EconWPA - 2004

A monetary inflation model is augmented to include import prices and wages in a theoretically plausible manner. Empirical analysis is carried out using annual data for the 1970-1997 period. Parameter estimation is completed using a nonlinear ARMAX procedure. In addition to estimating different...

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE

Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2004

convergencia regional en México y aborda los fundamentos teóricos y empíricos en el cual las instituciones juegan un papel … importante en el proceso de integración regional en México y en especial en la frontera norte. Finalmente, se realiza un análisis … empírico de la convergencia regional de largo plazo para los estados de México, introduciendo una variable de corrupción dentro …

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