Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation …

(Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early … 1990s, a period characterized by high inflation. As inflation declined wages became less pro-cyclical, a feature that is … consistent with emerging downward wage rigidities in a low-inflation environment. Compositional effects associated with changes …

This paper surveys overall export growth in Chile and focuses on three case studies of the emergence of successful … export activities in Chile: wine, pork and blueberries. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, and …

American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where …, Chilean and Mexican economies. The Â…findings suggest that, in order to implement the optimal tax regime, Brazil must tax … capital at a considerably lower rate than at present. Consumption should be heavily taxed in Brazil and Mexico and optimal …

the largest possible number of firms. CGI levels have improved over time in Brazil, and an examination of CGI components …-voting shares. The paper does not find evidence for either entrenchment or incentives in Brazil using ownership percentages, but … dividend payout. The results are placed in context by offering a comparative analysis with Chile …

food prices and inflation. This note assesses the impact of the recent food price shock on food, non-food and consumer … inflation in the countries of Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC). Vector Autoregressive Regressions (VARs) are estimated for … that, due to the food price surge, increases in inflation could exceed 5 percentage points in Bolivia, Dominican Republic …

There are many sources of inflation forecasts for Latin America. The International Monetary Fund, Latin Focus, the … Economist Intelligence Unit and other consulting companies all offer inflation forecasts. However, these sources do not provide … any probability measures regarding the risk of inflation. In some cases, Central Banks offer forecast and probability …