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The China Boom in Latin America: An End to Austerity?

Kaplan, Stephen B. - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2014

How does a shifting economic power balance between the United States and China affect the strategic choices of Latin American governments? During the last several decades, Latin America has often relied on a Western development model that aimed to attract global market capital. After excessive...

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Economic Size and Debt Sustainability against Piketty's Capital Inequality

cho, hyejin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This article presents a methodology designed to facilitate alternative variables measuring economic growth. A capital-labor split of Cobb-Douglas function is adapted for use in the context of economic growth. A capital/income ratio and two fundamental law of capitalism originated by Thomas...

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Firms' investment and savings in Latin America : stylized facts from the enterprise survey

Kawamura, Enrique; Ronconi, Lucas - 2015

This paper describes the share of investment in fixed capital and working capital financed by retained earnings using a …, particularly by smaller firms located in countries with less developed financial markets. Investment in fixed assets represents …

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Firms’ Investment and Savings in Latin America : Stylized Facts from the Enterprise Survey

Kawamura, Enrique - 2016

This paper describes the share of investment in fixed capital and working capital …

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An Exploration of the Long-Run Relationship between Saving and Investment in the Developing Economies : A Tale of Latin American Countries

Sinha, Dipendra; Sinha, Tapen - 2014

Horioka in 1980, economists have been studying the relationship between saving and investment with renewed vigor. Most of the … saving and investment. The other six countries may face macroeconomic instability in the long run because of the divergence … between saving rate and investment rate …

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Endogenous growth, capital accumulationand Thirlwall's dynamics : the case of Latin America

Perrotini-Hernández, Ignacio; Vázquez Muñoz, Juan Alberto - In: Thirlwall's law at 40, (pp. 18-36). 2021

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Bad Investments and Missed Opportunities? Postwar Capital Flows to Asia and Latin America

Ohanian, Lee E.; Restrepo-Echavarria, Paulina; Wright, … - 2015

Since 1950, the economies of East Asia grew rapidly but received little international capital, while Latin America received considerable international capital even as their economies stagnated. The literature typically explains the failure of capital to flow to high growth regions as resulting...

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Is there a link between remittances, capital formation, structural transformation and economic growth? : a dynamic panel analysis for Latin America under the PVAR approach

Zurita Moreano, Eduardo; González Bautista, María Gabriela - In: Economies : open access journal 12 (2024) 5, pp. 1-25

The literature has mainly focused on analyzing the relationship of remittances with economic growth and social welfare, neglecting more complex aspects where remittances can have relevant implications. To contribute to the literature, the objective of this research is to examine the dynamic...

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Why exporters can be financially constrained in a recently liberalised economy? A puzzle based on Argentinean firms during the 1990s

Espanol, Paula - 2006

investment equation splitting up the sample between exporters and non-exporters. Using three alternative econometric models … literature, exporting firms are the ones facing larger financial constraints on investment. We propose an explanation for this …, particularly in Argentina, which triggers a profit squeeze phenomenon for exportable firms, reducing their investment capacity. …

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Corporate Tax Stimulus and Investment in Colombia

Galindo, Arturo; Melendez, Marcela - 2010

This paper uses a yearly dataset of plant-level investment in Colombian firms during the period 1997 to 2007 to assess … significant correlation is found between the boom observed in investment and the adoption of the tax policy. However, the … tests. Overall, it is concluded that the tax stimulus analyzed was ineffective in promoting investment in Colombia. …

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