, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …

Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Costs include investment banking and legal fees, regulatory and exchange listing costs, rating … Chile from a transaction cost perspective, over the past decade most firms have used bonds rather than shares to raise …

primary school in two Latin American countries, Argentina and Colombia, as well as several comparison countries. The database …,300 students in Argentina and 5,131 students in Colombia. The emerging general pattern of results is that educational performance …' resource endowments. In an international perspective, estimated family background effects are relatively large in Argentina …

), focusing on the role of competition and the institutional framework. Using a survey of banks in Argentina and Chile, the paper …