statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and Argentina. While Chile exhibited a significant economic slowdown after August … 1998, it did not suffer the excruciating collapse suffered by Argentina, where even the payments system came to a full stop …. We attribute their difference to the fact that Chile is more open to trade than Argentina, and that it appears to suffer …

This paper provides an overview of the major economic events in Argentina from the adoption of the convertibility plan … currency board and capital flows, and the inescapable link between fiscal and monetary policy. Argentina inadvertently entered … the late 1990s, when Argentina went into recession, it required some sort of stimulus -- either a loosening of monetary …

Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the US. While income and education suggest that Peronists (in relative terms …

large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina testing the effectiveness of information, social and economic incentives …

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …

a panel of Argentine manufacturing firms. The data cover the period 1998-2000 and span the Brazilian currency …

We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their … government advertising (0.26 million pesos of 2000) is associated with a reduction in the coverage of the government's corruption …

The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income … per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never …

This paper examines Argentina's currency crises from 1970 to 2001, with particular attention to the role of domestic …