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Firms' investment and savings in Latin America : stylized facts from the enterprise survey
Kawamura, Enrique; Ronconi, Lucas - 2015
This paper describes the share of investment in fixed capital and working capital financed by retained earnings using a …, particularly by smaller firms located in countries with less developed financial markets. Investment in fixed assets represents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011473027
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Corporate tax stimulus and investment in Colombia
Galindo Andrade, Arturo José; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela - 2010
This paper uses a yearly dataset of plant-level investment in Colombian firms during the period 1997 to 2007 to assess … significant correlation is found between the boom observed in investment and the adoption of the tax policy. However, the … tests. Overall, it is concluded that the tax stimulus analyzed was ineffective in promoting investment in Colombia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246557
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New productivity drivers : revisiting the role of digital capital, FDI and integration at aggregate and sectoral levels
Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
foreign direct investment is not robustly detected when the data is purged from the effects of special purpose entities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012209649
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Global demographic trends, capital mobility, saving and consumption in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Bonfatti, Andrea; Kitao, Sagiri; … - 2015
This paper studies the effect of demographic transitions on the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper builds a model of multi-regions of the world and derives the path of macroeconomic variables including aggregate output, capital, labor and the saving rate as economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290961
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Firm expectations and investment : evidence from the China-Japan island dispute
Chen, Cheng; Senga, Tatsuro; Sun, Chang; Zhang, Hongyong - 2017
persistent decline in investment. Moreover, the territorial dispute has led to persistent pessimism in these firms' expectations … about future sales, which can explain 60% of the overall decline in investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756135
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On the credibility of inflation targeting regimes in Latin America
Mariscal, Rodrigo; Powell, Andrew; Tavella, Pilar - 2014
Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will take appropriate actions if the target is breached....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286255
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Partisanship, ideology, and representation in Latin America
Saiegh, Sebastián M. - 2014
This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the findings reveal that the "median" voter in Latin America...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286641
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?
López Bóo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303243
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A cycle-adjusted fiscal rule for sustainable and more equitable growth in Argentina
Zúñiga, Jimena; Capello, Marcelo; Butler, Inés; … - 2013
appropriability of social returns and insufficient public infrastructure are key constraints to private investment. Further, low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303821
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Business-government interaction in policy councils in Latin America : cheap talk, expensive exchanges, or collaborative learning?
Schneider, Ben Ross - 2010
While effective industrial policy requires close cooperation between government and business, there is little agreement on what makes that cooperation work best. This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for public-private cooperation and the character of private sector representation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246553