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-profiteering measures on food necessities during a period of high inflation in Argentina. Using barcode-level data across more than 3 …
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The contrast between the early nineteenth century Argentinean experience of high inflation and the American experience … of low inflation is interpreted in terms of a dynamic monetary model of optimal taxation. It is argued that the two … the presence of frequent wars, ever-tightening access to foreign capital, and an inadequate tax base, Argentina's use of …
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We study the impact of targeted price controls for supermarket products in Argentina from 2007 to 2015. Using web …-scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation … CPI weight, they have a temporary effect on aggregate inflation and no downward effect on other goods. Second, contrary to …
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as the manifestation of excessive monetary injections [Krugman-Flood-Garber], the fiscal theory of inflation [Sargent …-finance optimizing problem. We shows that under conditions similar to those which prevailed in Russia and Argentina prior to their …
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devaluations within the context of a surge in inflation and a fall and subsequent recovery of real labor income. To better …
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We document the diffusion of nebulized ibuprofen in Argentina as a treatment for COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, this …
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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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Generational policy is a fundamental aspect of a nation's fiscal affairs. The policy involves redistributing resources across generations and allocating to particular generations the burden of paying the government's bills. This chapter of the second edition of The Handbook of Public Economics...
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We provide an analytical narrative of the political and economic causes and consequences of institutional changes in the Argentine banking system. We devote most of our attention to the privatization of the provincial banks. Our story differs from the prevailing wisdom in its stress on the key...
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exchange-rate-based-stabilizations. We use data for the U.S. and Argentina to document the importance of distribution margins … in retail prices and disaggregated price data to study price dynamics in the aftermath of Argentina's 1991 Convertibility …
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