This article looks at the impact of crime and institutions on FDI into Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1996-2010 period. FDI is disaggregated into primary, secondary and tertiary sectors and three variables related to violent crime are used: homicides, crime victimization, and...

This issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlook includes three articles: Hispanic Economic Employment Conditions by Marie Mora, Hispanic homeowners and worries about housing by Mark Hugo Lopez, the current state of workers' remittances by Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas

This paper explores the impact of refugee return on social cohesion using data from Burundi, a country that experienced high levels of repatriation during the 2000s. It uses a nationwide survey conducted in 2015 and relies on geographic features of the communities for identification purposes....

In a panel framework that includes 18 countries, this paper studies the short and long run effect of financial development on economic growth and the determinants of financial development in Latin America. Financial development shows a positive effect on economic growth in the long run, but a...

This analysis focuses on studying whether four significant trends in Latin America may be important determinants of FDI. The trends explored are: increased financial liberalization, improvements in the quality of institutions, shifts towards leftist governments, and increased dependence on...

We investigate competition between tax havens and how this competition is related to geographic distribution. We study the extent to which proximity to the nearest tax haven affects foreign direct investment and the number of American affiliates in a tax haven. Empirical results show that...

This paper analyzes the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Latin America with a Granger causality test and impulse response functions in a panel vector autoregression (VAR) model. With annual observations from a sample of 18 countries from 1962 to 2005, it is shown...

This online appendix accompanies the article forthcoming in the Southern Economic Journal. This appendix contains additional information on the data and methodology used in the article, as well as results from additional and supplementary estimations

The goal of this study is to deepen the understanding of how middle age and older Hispanics plan for retirement, where we conducted four focus groups in the Los Angeles area with a total of 38 participants. Our study provides interesting findings, specifically for women since 84 percent of the...

We develop a hierarchical model of real option entry mode choices under environmental uncertainty and test predictions using a unique sample of U.S. companies expanding in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean between 1980 and 2005. Our results, based on a probit estimation with...