Financial and currency crises: comparing Latin America and East Asia - This article focuses on the sources of vulnerability to currency and financial crises as well as on their degree of severity in Latin American and East Asian economies. Evidence based on a number of indicators reckoned for...

The main objective of this work is to assess the challenges to be faced by Brazil to become a full member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of tax rules related to controlled foreign companies, transfer pricing, thin capitalization, and mandatory...

The objective of this study is to analyze the determinants of private investment, especially private participation in infrastructure, focusing on the institutional quality of emerging economies. The emerging economies analyzed (Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia,...

As emerging economies experience a boom in capital inflows after the global financial crisis, governments were increasingly concerned about the downsides of these inflows. Even the IMF (International Monetary Fund), long a stalwart proponent of financial liberalization, has engaged in a new...

As emerging economies experience a boom in capital inflows after the global financial crisis, governments were increasingly concerned about the downsides of these inflows. Even the IMF (International Monetary Fund), long a stalwart proponent of financial liberalization, has engaged in a new...

The objective of this study is to analyze the determinants of private investment, especially private participation in infrastructure, focusing on the institutional quality of emerging economies. The emerging economies analyzed (Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, India, Indonesia,...

The main objective of this work is to assess the challenges to be faced by Brazil to become a full member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in terms of tax rules related to controlled foreign companies, transfer pricing, thin capitalization, and mandatory...

The purpose of this paper is to use the literature which evaluates the external sustainability condition to evaluate the original equation of Feldstein and Horioka. We conclude that the saving-investment correlation calculated using cross-sectional data measures the solvency condition instead of...