A recent paper by Kraay (2003) documents the lack of any systematic associationbetween monetary policy and the outcome of a speculative attack. This paper extendsKraay’s work by introducing an improved measure of monetary policy and an additionalcountry-specific fundamental, short-term...

This study examines the influence of foreign ownership on the performance of fmtis operating in India. Foreign ownership is categorized according to the control exercisable at different levels of ownership. These categories are, in turn, determined by the institutional structure of the Indian...

En este trabajo se determina el problema de la gestión óptima de la deuda pública en una pequeña economía abierta. El Gobierno emite un continuo de bonos de vencimiento finito sujeto a restricciones de liquidez. Hallamos que la solución puede ser descentralizada: la emisión óptima de un...

Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) has now become an integral part of all organisations.Ironically, although there has been a lot of research undertaken in IS/IT strategic planning, little has been doneto understand the actual relationship between IS/IT investment and...

We use a panel dataset on industrial employment and trade for 9 Latin American countries for which liability dollarization data at the industrial level is available. We test whether real exchange rate fluctuations have a significant impact on employment, and analyze whether the impact varies...

Este artículo presenta una nueva metodología para estimar el gasto financiero de la Administración Central. La idea subyacente es la de representar desagregadamente la dinámica de la deuda y del gasto por intereses a partir de cuatro elementos: el saldo vivo de la deuda pública inicial, las...

En este documento se presenta una herramienta, disponible en el Banco de España, para la previsión de los pagos por intereses de las Administraciones Públicas (AAPP) en nuestro país. Frente a modelos más detallados, que tienen en cuenta las características específicas y las fechas...

In the early 1980s, developments in federal innovation policy sought to maximize the returns to the government's substantial investment. Legislation such as Bayh-Dole in 1980 and the creation of the Small Business Innovation Research Program in 1982, encouraged the private-sector...