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 …

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 …

urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …

sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …

In this paper I discuss in what way, if any, the collapse of Argentina's experience with a currency board has affected …

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

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 …

statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and Argentina. While Chile exhibited a significant economic slowdown after August … 1998, it did not suffer the excruciating collapse suffered by Argentina, where even the payments system came to a full stop …. We attribute their difference to the fact that Chile is more open to trade than Argentina, and that it appears to suffer …