competition but which is partially used in the case of oligopoly or monopolistic competition, and it is fully used in the case of … monopoly. This paper explores the degree of competition in the credit market of Argentina in the period 2002-2007. The … hypothesis of perfect competition in the loan market can be rejected. …

special emphasis on inflation as a variable of interest for an emerging country, an underdeveloped financial market, and a … that examine the relationship between the rate of return on assets and inflation. We focus our empirical analysis in an … determinant in reference to the effect of the inflation and the exchange rate variables on stocks' performance. …

an economy with moderate inflation, such as Argentina. Using weekly frequency data, five versions of the function that …

This paper makes a comparative study of the inflation dynamics of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and … methodology for decomposing the short-run evolution of the year-on-year inflation between the effects of lagged variables and the … contemporary effects of the determinants. As a result, we show that the influence of the inflation persistence explains a big part …