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This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …
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a new social accounting matrix (SAM) for Argentina, and uses it to calibrate a CGE model. Both tools show promise for …
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The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income … per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never …
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Argentina's policy of devaluation with redenomination in 2002, in contrast to Mexico's policy of devaluation without debt … redenomination in 1994-1995, shows that devaluation benefited tradables firms, and that dollar debt redenomination in Argentina … investment by high energy users in Argentina, and that benefit was apparent also in positive stock returns of those firms …
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We use more than one century of Argentine and Mexican data to estimate the structural parameters of a small-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at explaining business cycles in emerging countries. We then...
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The long-run economic performance of Argentina since World War One has been relatively disappointing until recently … deepening industrializing economy such as" Argentina's. Yet the promise of this trend was unfulfilled: first the outbreak of …
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Much of Argentina's decline in relative economic performance can be attributed to deleterious conditions for capital …
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The paper reviews the Argentine debt experience in the past ten years. The emphasis is on the interaction between relative prices, financial instability, budget .deficits, inflation and debt accumulation. A longer run perspective shows that the continuing fiscal problems have stood in the way of...
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This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina's integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to …
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Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million … mobility in Argentina and immigration contributed positively to the process of economic development. We then turn our focus to … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of …
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