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Monetary Policy and Capital Movements in Chile
Rosende, Francisco - 1997
This paper attempts to describe Chilean monetary policy during the first half of the 90s. During that period, an explicit exchange rate target zone prevailed. The center of the exchange rate band was set according to a real exchange rate rule (RERR). The Central Bank's main objective in the...
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Partisan Technocratic Cycles in Latin America
Kaplan, Stephen B. - 2016
Given their powerful position in presidential cabinets, technocrats are an important transmission mechanism for explaining economic policy choices, but have received less attention compared to other well-established channels such as elections or democratic tenure. I incorporate the role of...
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Is Chile a Role Model for Development?
Ffrench-Davis, Ricardo - 2016
.1 per cent in the initial years (1990-98) and a modest 3.9 per cent in the last 15 years. Hence, sometimes, Chile has …
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Chile: The road to joy is paved with obstacles
Yajima, Giuliano Toshiro - In: PSL quarterly review 75 (2022) 302, pp. 285-297
The second round of the Presidential elections in Chile marked a swing in the local political scenario. The coalition …
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Sabotage from Abroad? The Economic Impact of U.S. Interference in Chile 1970-73
Walther, E. James - 2021
In 1973, Augusto Pinochet led a US-backed coup against Salvador Allende, Chile's democratically elected president …'s project of socialist transformation in hyper-polarized 1970s Chile was doomed regardless of external provocation. However …
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
We test the effectiveness of self-help peer groups as a commitment device for precautionary savings, through two … randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a … powerful tool to increase savings (the number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and the average savings balance almost doubles …
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665967
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530133
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Under-savers anonymous : evidence on self-help groups and peer pressure as a savings commitment device
Kast, Felipe; Meier, Stephan; Pomeranz, Dina - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486065
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Under-Savers Anonymous : Evidence on Self-Help Groups and Peer Pressure as a Savings Commitment Device
Kast, Felipe - 2012
increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide who not have a formal wage bill. Self-help peer … evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile. The … first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are very potent at increasing savings. In contrast, a more classical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110869