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This paper examines the long-run validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) for four high-inflation countries. The … test PPP using Johansen's (1988) multivariate cointegration technique. The cointegration tests are conducted with the …, during the recent floating exchange rate period, PPP holds well, at least in a weak form, in high-inflation countries where …
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This article analyzes the exchange rate misalignment in Brazil in the period between 1994 and the early 2008, exploring its causes and consequences. The method used was to adjust the exchange rate according to the economic fundamentals. The estimations led to an expected long-term exchange rate,...
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The paper presents results of empirical tests with hybrid nominal exchange rate models for the Brazilian foreign exchange market, using macroeconomic and market microstructure variables. The basic model was originally proposed and tested in the German (DM/US$) and the Japanese (Y/US$) foreign...
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(TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – The … relationship between infrastructure and economic growth for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico between 1950 and 2000, using new …
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(TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach – The … relationship between infrastructure and economic growth for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico between 1950 and 2000, using new …
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Inflation Targeting Regimes. For this purpose, it applies the VAR methodology developed by Kim (2003) to the cases of Mexico and …
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This paper analyzes the Argentine crisis, compares the macroeconomic development in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico … "structural reforms" show in an international comparison that there are good development perspectives only for Chile. While Mexico …
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Using forecasts of the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso, we analyze the shape of the loss function of exchange-rate forecasters and the rationality of their forecasts. We find a substantial degree of cross-sectional heterogeneity with respect to the shape of the loss function. While some...
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countries with inflation targets — namely, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru — by fitting GARCH-type models. These countries …
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, Colombia and Mexico in the post-1999 period. It also tests for the presence of volatility spillovers between the monetary …, Colombia and Mexico, suggesting that interest-rate smoothing contributes to reducing inflation expectations volatility. No …
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