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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 …
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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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Argentina's policy of devaluation with redenomination in 2002, in contrast to Mexico's policy of devaluation without debt … redenomination in 1994-1995, shows that devaluation benefited tradables firms, and that dollar debt redenomination in Argentina … investment by high energy users in Argentina, and that benefit was apparent also in positive stock returns of those firms …
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We use more than one century of Argentine and Mexican data to estimate the structural parameters of a small-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at explaining business cycles in emerging countries. We then...
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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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The paper reviews the Argentine debt experience in the past ten years. The emphasis is on the interaction between relative prices, financial instability, budget .deficits, inflation and debt accumulation. A longer run perspective shows that the continuing fiscal problems have stood in the way of...
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This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina's integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to …
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Argentina was the second largest destination country during the Age of Mass Migration, receiving nearly six million … mobility in Argentina and immigration contributed positively to the process of economic development. We then turn our focus to … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of …
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Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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Do trade reforms that significantly reduce import barriers lead to faster economic growth? In the two decades since Rodríguez and Rodrik's (2000) critical survey of empirical work on this question, new research has tried to overcome the various methodological problems that have plagued previous...
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