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The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the … three countries, the analysis finds evidence that youth who drop out due to a household income shock have worse employment …
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evidence on the impact of weather index insurance from a pioneering, large-scale insurance program in Mexico. The focus of this … payments from weather index insurance allow farmers to cultivate a larger land area in the season following a weather shock …
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Recent research shows that employment in Mexico's offshoring maquiladora industries is twice as volatile as employment … in their U.S. industry counterparts. The analyses in this paper use data from Mexico's social security records and U … emanating from the United States were amplified when transmitted into Mexico's offshoring labor market of Northern Mexico. First …
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This paper examines how fiscal rules, exchange rate regimes, and institutional quality affect the cyclical behavior of fiscal policy (how government spending responds to fluctuations in gross domestic product). The analysis is performed on a panel of 153 advanced, emerging, and developing...
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Credibility and transparency are at the core of the current debate about exchange rate regimes. The steady growth in the magnitude and variability of international capital flows has complicated the question of whether to use floating, fixed, or intermediate exchange rate regimes. Emerging market...
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The authors empirically study the sensitivity of local interest rates to international interest rates and how that sensitivity is affected by a country's choice of exchange rate regime. To establish the empirical regularities, they use a reduced-form empirical approach to compute both panel and...
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This paper utilizes data for African countries to analyze the extent to which financial development affects the dynamics of the relationship between exchange rate flexibility and economic growth. The findings indicate that financial development exerts a positive influence on the relationship...
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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