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manufacturing affiliates of U.S. multinationals in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The results of these tests show that the …
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The Tequila Effect hypothesis states that the economic crisis that affected several South American countries in 1995 was caused by an exogenous capital flight triggered by the loss of confidence of foreign investors after the collapse of the Mexican peso in December 1994. I analyze the recent...
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Starting from a theoretical model with optimizing economic agents, we develop a highly parsimonious econometric model of consumers' expenditure on non-durables and services in Venezuela for 1970-85. Disposable income, liquidity, and inflation determine expenditure in an economically sensible...
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Hoover and Perez (1999) advocate a constructive approach to data mining. The current paper identifies four pejorative senses of data mining and shows how Hoover and Perez's approach counters each. To assess the benefits of constructive data mining, the current paper applies a data-mining...
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Traditional studies of money demand for both developed and less developed countries have shown that there are periods of "missing money," that is, there is consistent overprediction of real balances. This paper uses cointegration techniques to study the effects of financial innovation on the...
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This paper surveys the development and operation of the parallel exchange market in Argentina during the 1980s, and … evaluates its impact upon macroeconomic performance and policy. The historical evolution of Argentina's exchange market policies … effective enough in Argentina to allow the authorities to set the commercial exchange rate independently of the parallel market …
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experiences of disinflation in Argentina and Israel. To better understand this behavior, we develop a very general model of … framework described above is used to examine the response of real interest rates to Argentina's disinflation in 1985. We show …
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Argentina became highly "dollarized" during its hyperinflations of 1989 and early 1990. Although inflation has returned …­pirically, these components of dollar assets for Argentina have responded differently to recent macroeconomic shocks. ; Second …, cointegration analysis of peso money demand in Argentina finds a negative "ratchet effect" from inflation on the demand for pesos …
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Mexico. We do so using survey-based measures as well as financial market-based measures of long-term inflation expectations … first to examine the evidence from Brazil and Mexico, making use of the fact that markets for longterm government debt have … anchored than in Chile and Mexico. …
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