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Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...
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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America : A View and Three Case Studies
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …
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Can Emerging Market Bank Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? The Case of Argentina, 1992-1999
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2000
In the early 1990s, after decades of high inflation and financial repression, Argentina embarked on a course of … banking system during the liberalization process. Argentina suffered some fallout from the Mexican tequila crisis of 1995, but … discipline after the crisis made Argentina's banking system quite resilient during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian crises …
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Foreign and Domestic Bank Participation in Emerging Markets : Lessons from Mexico and Argentina
Goldberg, Linda - 2000
studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign … credit growth during crisis periods. In Argentina, the loan portfolios of foreign and domestic privately-owned banks are … lower levels of impaired assets have similar loan responsiveness and portfolios. State-owned banks (Argentina) and banks …
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Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime
Paolera, Gerardo della - 2000
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/10012471138
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Internal Versus External Convertibility and Developing-Country FinancialCrises : Lessons from the Argentine Bank Bailout of the 1930's
Paolera, Gerardo della - 1999
Argentina's money and banking system was hit hard by the Great Depression. The banking sector was awash with bad assets …
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No Single Currency Regime is Right for All Countries or At All Times
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1999
This essay considers some prescriptions that are currently popular regarding exchange rate regimes: a general movement toward floating, a general movement toward fixing, or a general movement toward either extreme and away from the middle. The whole spectrum from fixed to floating is covered...
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Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective
Basu, Susanto - 1999
This paper examines business cycles theoretically and empirically, with a quantitative study based on experience over the long run and in a cross section of countries. Several major questions in business cycle theory are explored. Theoretical concerns indicate that the properties of business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471707
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
occurred prior to the start of our data. Using a natural experiment in Argentina, where some products were newly brought under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659997
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Causal Inference During a Pandemic : Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nebulized Ibuprofen as an Unproven Treatment for COVID-19 in Argentina
Calonico, Sebastian; Di Tella, Rafael; Del Valle, Juan … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
. We study the case of nebulized ibuprofen (NaIHS), a drug that was extensively used on COVID-19 patients in Argentina …
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