"This book assesses the political, economic and geopolitical consequences that China's presence has initiated throughout Latin America and the Caribbean between 2008-2020. Written by experts across three continents, contributions to this edited volume explore the bilateral relations that China...

This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time periods, and remains low. Whereas pass-through effects where high and close to 1 in the high-inflation period, they seem to have fallen to around 0.2 after the Real Plan...

The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...