Abstract Latin American countries could only avoid to fall further behind their East Asian competitors if they adopt neo-liberal reforms. This is because external help cannot substitute for internal reforms and because Latin American countries lack the basis for cooperative policy implementation...

Notes that macro‐economic policy faces the same challenges in both developing and post‐socialist economies: to reduce inflation while achieving or maintaining stable economic growth. Moreover, there are developing countries like Argentina which succeeded in overcoming a type of institutional...

Summary Between 1995 and 2005, the German economy has experienced a phase of weak economic growth. We analyze whether this weak growth performance can be attributed to the stance of monetary conditions during that period. We show that the real effective exchange rate did have almost no dampening...