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Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer … tradable goods and nominal exchange rates holds only in periods in which Mexico was not under a regime of exchange …-rate management. In periods in the sample in which Mexico had a managed exchange-rate regime, the variability of prices of non …
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continuation of a currency peg depended on the observed holdings of central bank foreign reserves. We examine the implications of a …
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of a small open economy calibrated to Mexico's 1987-1994 stabilization plan. In the model a time-variant interest rate …
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The current account reversals, large recessions, and price collapses that define Sudden Stops contradict the predictions of a large class of models in which the current account is a vehicle for consumption smoothing and investment financing. This paper shows that the quantitative predictions of...
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, and the Sudden Stops that accompanied the collapse of Mexico's managed exchange rates, could result from an endogenous …
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Ratios of public debt as a share of GDP in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico were 10 percentage points higher on average … scenario question the sustainability of current debt ratios in Brazil and Colombia, while those in Costa Rica and Mexico seem …
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The 1990s emerging-markets crises were characterized by sudden reversals in inflows of foreign capital followed by unusually large declines in current account deficits, private expenditures, production, and prices of nontradable goods relative to tradables. This paper shows that these Sudden...
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This paper examines two potential benefits that emerging economies may derive from dollarization. First, dollarization may eliminate distortions induced by the lack of credibility of monetary policy. Second, dollarization may weaken financial frictions that result in endogenous credit...
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This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...
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actions by bank owners to change management, contract with depositors to extend liability maturity structure, write off bad … assets, and/or inject capital affected bank survival and deposit retention. This historical episode is particularly …
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