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Sudden Stop, Financial Factors and Economic Collpase in Latin America : Learning from Argentina and Chile

Calvo, Guillermo A. - 2005

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 …

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Sovereign Default, Debt Restructuring, and Recovery Rates : Was the Argentinean “Haircut” Excessive?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2015

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Greece. The results suggest that the haircut imposed by Argentina in its 2005 restructuring (75 …

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External Integration, Structural Transformation and Economic Development : Evidence from Argentina 1870-1914

Fajgelbaum, Pablo - 2014

This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina's integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to …

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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

Alston, Lee J. - 2009

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 …

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Finance and Development in an Emerging Market : Argentina and the Interwar Period

Paolera, Gerardo della - 1997

The long-run economic performance of Argentina since World War One has been relatively disappointing until recently … deepening industrializing economy such as" Argentina's. Yet the promise of this trend was unfulfilled: first the outbreak of …

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Social Structure and Development : A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan; Hassan, Tarek A. - 2010

We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and cities as...

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Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule : Evidence from the Congo Free State

Lowes, Sara - 2020

All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo...

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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development

Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...

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Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leaders, and Development in Origin Countries

Cabra-Ruiz, Nicolas; Rozo, Sandra V.; Sviatschi, Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How does forced displacement shape development in origin countries? We examine the case of Venezuela, where over seven million people have been forcibly displaced. Our study compares municipalities with different proportions of foreign-born populations before and after the international oil...

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War Mobilization and Economic Development : World War II and Structural Transformation in India

Parvathaneni, Aneesha; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Can temporary wartime mobilization change the long-run development trajectory of an economy? We study how mobilization for World War II in colonial India influenced its subsequent development. From 1939 to 1945, the British colonial government purchased massive amounts of war materiel within...

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