The recent/current recession provides the opportunity to study the effects of the macroeconomic changes on the agricultural production systems in the Great Plains and trace some of its impacts through the system to changes in primary inputs such water resource use. Therefore, the objective of...

The episodes of financial crises in many parts of the world during the 1990s have sparked interest in identifying channels through which such crises spread from one country to another. Researchers have identified several factors that may have sparked and induced contagion. This study further...

O objetivo desse artigo é determinar os impactos da criação da Área de Livre Comércio das Américas (ALCA), a partir de uma desoneração tributária, na economia brasileira. Para isso, foram analisados diversos cenários que contam, além da eliminação das tarifas ao comércio entre os...

Regional integration has been used with varying success to overcome disadvantages associated with smallsize. The fundamental premise for regional cooperation in the Caribbean has been the promotion of economicdevelopment particularly in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. The opportunity...

The launch of the economic and monetary union in Europe and the 1997 financial crisis that underscored the disadvantages of currently employed exchange rate regimes raised questions about the feasibility of a similar monetary unification project for East Asia. Being one of the most dynamically...

We use a spatial competition based model in a two-stage game setup to assess whether equilibrium in exchange rates among the leading currencies is attainable. We show that a stable equilibrium can be reached in the case of two leading currencies, but not in the case of three. In our model,...

Este artículo describe una metodología que permite contrastar la convergencia absoluta y relativa del nivel general de precios (en media y varianza), basada en un modelo de precios relativos que incluye un proceso de transición y permite medir la velocidad de convergencia de precios entre un...

En este documento se estudian los efectos de la política fiscal y el espacio fiscal existente en una unión monetaria compuesta por países con distintos niveles de deuda pública. Desarrollamos un modelo de equilibrio general dinámico y estocástico (DSGE, por sus siglas en inglés) de una...

Estudiamos los efectos macroeconómicos de devaluaciones internas llevadas a cabo en los países de la periferia de una unión monetaria. Encontramos que las devaluaciones internas tienen efectos grandes y positivos sobre el output en el largo plazo. A través del canal de expectativas, la mayor...

This paper focuses on the non linear adjustment of import prices in national currency to shocks in exchange rates and foreign prices measured in the exporters' currency of products originating outside the euro area and imported into European Union countries (EU 15). The paper looks at three...