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The effects of "bad" governance - the case of Argentina's economic development under special consideration of system reliance

Eberhart, David - 2006

Argentinien erlebte in der Jahren 2001 und 2002 die schwerste Wirtschaftskrise seiner jüngeren Geschichte. Doch auch … dominierenden strukturalistischen Ansätze, noch die neoklassischen Erklärungsbeiträge, die seit den 80er Jahren auch in Argentinien … Anwendbarkeit für die Erklärung des Fallbeispiels Argentinien einschränken. Sie beleuchten zwar jeweils wichtige Aspekte des …

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The effects of technical and organizational change on labor markets

Gärtner, Dennis - 2001

A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...

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Economic internationalisation and the distribution of income : a comparison of the cases of Germany and the U.S.

Wacker, Ulrich - 2002

This study compares the effects of economic internationalisation on the functional distribution of labour income in the U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general...

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Impact of export control policy measures in an attempt to tame Argentina's inflation

Rossi, Paula; Kagatsume, Masaru; Prosperi, Maurizio - 2007

staple food in Argentina: beef. The government reacted by launching an aggressive plan to fight inflation which included … to the Argentinean authorities when deciding to isolate the country, since markets unattended by Argentina quickly find … alternative sources of supply even within Argentinas neighbors. …

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Potential for Carbon Forest Plantations in Marginal Timber Forests: The Case of Patagonia, Argentina

Sedjo, Roger A. - 1999

section of this paper examines the Patagonia region of Argentina, as an example of an area where carbon sequestration values …

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Empirical Evaluation of DSGE Models for Emerging Countries

Garcia Cicco, Javier - 2009

This dissertation is the collection of three essays aimed to evaluate the empirical performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models in explaining the behavior of macroeconomic dynamics in emerging countries. Chapter 1, which is joint work with M. Uribe and R. Pancrazzi,...

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Learning and the Creation of Innovation Capabilities in Argentina’s Auto Parts Industry

Motta, Jorge - 2009

The purpose of this article is to find out about the main sources and the learning and skills accumulation modalities in innovation among Argentine auto parts manufacturers. In particular: a) the way the firms follow to introduce new products, processes and organisational forms and the way in...

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Argentine soybean production: the outlier in a weak innovative environment

Albrieu, Ramiro; Bernat, Gonzalo; Corso, Eduardo Ariel - 2009

During the last decade, Argentine soybean production showed a high rate of innovation, as farmers adopted state of the art technologies associated with biotechnology without important lags regarding their international launch. This sector’s high speed of assimilation of global innovations...

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Cross-Border Trading as a Mechanism for Capital Flight: ADRs and the Argentine Crisis

Auguste, Sebastian; Dominguez, Kathryn M. E.; Kamil, Herman - 2002

controls, they were able to purchase stocks with associated ADRs for pesos in Argentina, convert them into ADRs, re-sell them … move their funds abroad), (2) the market anticipated (correctly) a 40% devaluation, (3) local market factors in Argentina …

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