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. …

This paper presents an analysis of the expected inflation distribution based on the surveys made to economic analysts …, dispersion, and skewness, of expected inflation. It is anticipated that the behavior of these aspects will be consistent with the … process of inflation convergence to its target, in the sense that the expected inflation level and dispersion, and the …

This document analyzes inflation, exchange rate, interest rate, and GDP growth forecasts from the monthly Survey of … relative performance using as benchmarks forecasts from time series models and from other macroeconomic variables. Inflation … be better, in mean squared error terms, than the benchmark forecasts, except for the case of one-yearahead inflation. In …