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Firms and inequality in Latin America
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2024
The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
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Empoderando a los consumidores de electricidad por medio de la respuesta a la demanda: Porqué y cómo
Weiss, Mariana; Chueca, Enrique; Jacob, Jorge; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518108
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Empowering electricity consumers through demand response: Why and how
Weiss, Mariana; Chueca, Enrique; Jacob, Jorge; … - 2022
Massive digitalization advances have made demand response (DR) programs feasible in the residential sector; however, most households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region do not know about these types of programs. In this report, the authors explore experiments about the willingness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518193
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Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America
Ardanaz, Martin; Scartascini, Carlos; Tommasi, Mariano - 2011
This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and social actors involved in those processes. In particular,...
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Party Age and Party Color: New Results on the Political Economy of Redistribution and Inequality
Keefer, Philip; Milanovi´c, Branko - 2014
This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314170
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Democracy Does Not Cause Growth: The Importance of Endogeneity Arguments
Pozuelo, Julia Ruiz; Slipowitz, Amy; Vuletin, Guillermo - 2016
This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535771
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Technology, identification, and access to social programs: Experimental evidence from Panama
Reyes, Angela; Roseth, Benjamin; Vera Cossío, Diego … - 2021
Access to identification cards (IDs) is often required to claim government benefits. However, it is unclear which policies to increase ID ownership are more effective. We experimentally analyze the effect of two policy interventions to induce the timely renewal of identification cards on access...
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Expedited debt restructuring in Latin America: A regional overview
Olivares-Caminal, Rodrigo; Frigerio, Gerónimo - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of out-of-court alternatives in Latin America. It focuses on the importance of these alternatives to restore financial viability to troubled companies in a scenario of recurrent regional instability. The importance of out-of-court...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314041
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Trade policy and specialization
Estevadeordal, Antoni; Volpe Martincus, Christian - 2009
Trade liberalization leads to significant changes in countries' economic structures. The implied variation in the level and nature of specialization has important consequences for liberalizing economies. It is therefore extremely relevant for those countries pursuing trade liberalization...
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