The aim of this article is to evaluate the contribution of the banking sector to the economic growth of 16 Latin American countries, from 1979 to 2006. The econometric procedure is based on a panel data technique with fixed effects, classifying the countries in two samples according to their...

The high levels of poverty and inequity that affect a large portion of Latin American population is among the main issues that the region faces. According to CEPAL (2007), 36,5% of the population of the region (194 million) is below the poverty line, while 13,4% (71 million) is below the extreme...

In this paper estimates the long-term relationship in the relationship Energy Consumption - GDP and GDP - Energy Consumption for 10 Latin America countries during the period 1971 to 2007. Through Cointegration test of Westerlund (2006) for panel data, which takes into account the possible...

This article examines a theoretical framework for an explanation for the processes of growth experienced by the economies of Latin America. The economic literature is devoted primarily to analyze this topic based on the use of the macroeconomic production function as the main analytical concept....

In this article we examined and tested the effects of monetary policy driven by Central Bank of Chile over the Chilean stock market’s real returns for monthly data which spans between I.1996 and XII.2006. Based on a theoretical background, we analyzed the monetary policy from the monetarist...

The purpose of this paper is to show that all alternative monetary systems and policies currently in place in the world in effect are in the limits of the Krugman´s trilemma. In first place we review the three alternatives representatively exemplified by three historical experiences of...

This paper carries out an exploration of how the Mexican Bank Central conducted its monetary policy during the crisis 2007-2009 based on the analytical framework of the neoclassical macroeconomics. It is shown that in that period it was followed a countercyclical policy to reduce the crisis...

The paper models the behavior of the Central Bank of Bolivia, through the estimation of reaction functions. According to the monetary program, the central bank implements its policy through the use of monetary aggregates. However, given the crawling peg exchange rate regime, the nominal exchange...