better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …

In the early 1990s, after decades of high inflation and financial repression, Argentina embarked on a course of … banking system during the liberalization process. Argentina suffered some fallout from the Mexican tequila crisis of 1995, but … discipline after the crisis made Argentina's banking system quite resilient during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian crises …

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … credit growth during crisis periods. In Argentina, the loan portfolios of foreign and domestic privately-owned banks are … lower levels of impaired assets have similar loan responsiveness and portfolios. State-owned banks (Argentina) and banks …

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 …

a new social accounting matrix (SAM) for Argentina, and uses it to calibrate a CGE model. Both tools show promise for …

Argentina's money and banking system was hit hard by the Great Depression. The banking sector was awash with bad assets …

occurred prior to the start of our data. Using a natural experiment in Argentina, where some products were newly brought under …