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creation and exchange controls. We calibrate the model to Argentina, which over the past decade has experienced significant …
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This paper aims at assessing the relationship between the exchange value of the Chinese Renminbi (RMG) and China's trade balance by means of some recent econometric techniques designed to evaluate the existence and the direction of causality. We find strong evidence suggesting that changes in...
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We show that "preemptive" capital flow management measures (CFM) can reduce emerging markets and developing countries' (EMDE) external finance premia during risk-off shocks, especially for vulnerable countries. Using a panel dataset of 56 EMDEs during 1996-2020 at monthly frequency, we document...
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This paper examines the effects of restrictions on international financial markets. We analyze a general equilibrium, rational expectations model of a two-country world in which well-functioning international financial markets premit trade in all state-contingent securities except insofar as...
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This paper deals with the anatomy of devaluation in Latin America. In an effort to understand the economics surrounding the causes and consequences of exchange rate crises, eighteen devaluation episodes that took place between 1962 and 1982 are investigated in detail. The paper focuses on: (1)...
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In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...
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better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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