Beef is a staple food for Argentine consumers, and although the country has been a major exporter, the highest proportion of beef production is consumed in the domestic market. With rising inflation rates in the last 5 years, and given the beef prices’ strong weight on the composition of the...

The paper studies the dynamic effects of fiscal policy shocks upon Argentine macroeconomic variables such as the gross domestic product, the inflation rate and the level of unemployment; a structural Vector Autoregression model is resorted to in order to estimate the impulse response functions;...