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We construct measures of the extent to which the 4 main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption in their …
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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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sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …
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We evaluate the effects of the duration of legislative terms on the performance of legislators. We exploit a natural experiment in the Argentine House of Representatives where term lengths were assigned randomly. Results for various objective measures of legislative output show that longer terms...
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to understand the extent to which the crisis mattered for countries other than Argentina and England. Using a new …
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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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Argentina decrease once the trade balance constraint is removed … policy in the automobile sector in Argentina and Brazil during 1996-1999 …
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This paper provides an overview of the major economic events in Argentina from the adoption of the convertibility plan … currency board and capital flows, and the inescapable link between fiscal and monetary policy. Argentina inadvertently entered … late 1990s, when Argentina went into recession, it required some sort of stimulus -- either a loosening of monetary policy …
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decisions in Argentina, and find results consistent with the predictions of the theory …
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