make a time-consistent commitment for fiscal prudence. It examines the cases of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, as …

perceptions about environmental problems in Brazil. Consistent with models of public choice, the analysis assumes that the …

-such as small businesses-unserved. The authors examine this issue. Using bank-level data for Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and … Peru during the mid-1990s, they empirically investigate whether bank origin affects the share and growth rate of bank … was considerably smaller for large and medium-sized banks. And in Chile and Colombia, large foreign banks might actually …

, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … Brazil the authors cannot reject the 0 hypothesis of constant returns to scale. They also find evidence of economies of …

This paper contributes to the debate on the existence of pollution haven effects by systematically measuring the … pollution content of trade (measured by the pollution content of imports, PCI) and decomposing it into three components-a "deep … pollution haven effect which increases the PCI of the North because of stricter environmental regulations in the North. At the …

former phenomenon. Using household survey data from four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, and Guyana …

studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …