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The Costs of Financial Crises : Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis
Sandleris, Guido - 2011
Financial crises in emerging market countries appear to be very costly: both output and a host of partial welfare indicators decline dramatically. The magnitude of these costs is puzzling both from an accounting perspective -- factor usage does not decline as much as output, resulting in large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119037
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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
Alston, Lee J. - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151645
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Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime
della Paolera, Gerardo; Taylor, Alan M. - 2021
This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221515
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Sudden Stop, Financial Factors and Economic Collpase in Latin America : Learning from Argentina and Chile
Calvo, Guillermo A.; Talvi, Ernesto - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222318
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Trade Adjustment and Productivity in Large Crises
Gopinath, Gita - 2011
We empirically characterize the mechanics of trade adjustment during the Argen- tine crisis using detailed transaction-level customs data covering the universe of import transactions during 1996-2008. Though imports collapsed by nearly 70 percent from 2000-2002, the entry and exit of firms or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127011
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Institutional Causes, Macroeconomic Symptoms : Volatility, Crises and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Thaicharoen, Yunyong; Johnson, Simon - 2021
Countries that have pursued distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered more macroeconomic volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224669
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Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies
Di Tella, Rafael - 2010
Argentina and Democrat and Republican voters in the US. While income and education suggest that Peronists (in relative terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135050
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The Effects of Information, Social and Economic Incentives on Voluntary Undirected Blood Donations : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Argentina
Iajya, Victor - 2012
large-scale, natural field experiment in Argentina testing the effectiveness of information, social and economic incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096142
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The Industrialization of South America Revisited : Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010
della Paolera, Gerardo - 2018
We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926416
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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills
Brambilla, Irene - 2015
This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries with higher valuation for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038823