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Exchange Rate Regimes, Capital Flows and Crisis Prevention

Edwards, Sebastian - 2001

In this paper I analyze, within the context of the new 'financial architecture,' the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital flows and currency crises in emerging economies. The paper draws on lessons learned during the 1990s, and deals with some of the most important policy...

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Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Gruber, Jonathan - 2005

Interest in religious organizations as providers of social services has increased dramatically in recent years. Churches in the U.S. were a crucial provider of social services through the early part of the twentieth century, but their role shrank dramatically with the expansion in government...

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Cooperation in the Commons : Community-based Rangeland Management in Namibia

Coppock, D. Layne; Crowley, Lucas; Durham, Susan L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Classic theories suggest that common pool resources are subject to overexploitation. Community-based resource management approaches may ameliorate "tragedy of the commons" effects. Using a randomized evaluation in Namibia's communal rangelands, we find that a comprehensive four-year program to...

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Welfare Work Requirements with Paternalistic Government Preferences

Moffitt, Robert - 2006

Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is...

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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Krebs, Tom - 2005

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and uses the estimates of this empirical analysis to evaluate the welfare effect of trade reform. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used...

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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

Mexico …

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On the Instability of Variance Decompositions of the Real Exchange Rate across Exchange-Rate-Regimes : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2000

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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Financial Crisis, Health Outcomes and Aging : Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s

Cutler, David M. - 2000

We study the impact of economic crisis on health in Mexico. There have been four wide-scale economic crises in Mexico …

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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 … similar, and lending rates analogously respond to aggregate demand fluctuations. In Mexico, foreign and domestic banks with … with high levels of impaired assets (Mexico) have more stagnant loan growth and weak responsiveness to market signals …

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