the type Chile implemented throughout most of the 1990s reduce a country's vulnerability to contagion. I also deal, albeit … presented in this paper shows that the effectiveness of Chile's controls on inflows has often been overstated. Indeed, Chile was …

better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …

Both Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s, but Chile recovered much faster than did … of this difference between the two countries was the faster productivity growth in Chile, rather than higher investment … or employment. Our hypothesis is that this difference in productivity was driven by earlier policy reforms in Chile, the …

Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a … two countries was the earlier policy reforms in Chile that generated faster productivity growth. The most crucial of these …

evidence for Chile and Mexico supports the main predictions of the model …

observers were shocked by this turn of events. Mexico had a remarkable historical precedent: merely a dozen years earlier Chile … suffered a prophetically similar crisis. Like Mexico during the 1980s, Chile during the 1970s undertook major structural … aimed at creating a modern financial sector. In Chile, as in Mexico more than a decade later, the use of a predetermined …

forward a notion of current account sustainability and compares the experience of three Latin American countries -- Chile …