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The FDI-Growth Nexus in Latin America: The Role of Source Countries and Local Conditions

Prüfer, Patricia; Tondl, Gabriele - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2009

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI …

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The FDI-Growth Nexus in Latin America : The Role of Source Countries and Local Conditions

Prufer, Patricia; Tondl, G. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2008

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has surged in Latin America (LA) since the mid 1990s. European and North American FDI …

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Real effective exchange rate uncertainty, threshold effects, and aggregate investment : evidence from Latin American countries

Clausen, Bianca - 2008

aggregate investment in six Latin American economies. Its main contributions are that it explicitly tests for linear as well as … rate uncertainty affect aggregate investment negatively in all countries in the sample. -- exchange rate uncertainty … ; GARCH ; investment ; threshold effects ; GMM …

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Financial Liberalizations in Latin-America in the 1990s : A Reassessment

Aizenman, Joshua - 2005

scarcity of saving in LATAM, thereby increasing investment and growth. Yet, the data and several case studies suggest that the … saving and investment rates tends to be a time consuming process. This also suggests that greater political instability and … polarization would induce consumers to be more cautious in increasing their saving and investment rates following a reform. Hence …

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Latin American Economic Perspectives with Special Reference to Finnish Interests and Opportunities

Oroza, Gonzalo - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1997

In the 1990's, economic conditions have become substantially better in South America. Many countries in the region have opened their trade policies and privatized their economies. The prospects for growth during the next decade appear encouraging. This, however, will require national and foreign...

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From strangers to partners in the hemisphere: New Prospects in Australia’s Economic Relations with Latin America

Kenyon, Don; Eng, Pierre van der - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

From marginal relevance, the trade and business relations between Australia and Latin America have grown during the past two decades. A proximate reason is that they diversified to encompass a greater range of manufactures and services. Differences in the business environments of Australia and...

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Determinants of Economic Growth, South America in the Long-Term

Vedia-Jerez, Daniel - 2014

across panels. Our analysis documented that the impact on growth is driven through capital formation, foreign investment and … trade openness and foreign investment is positive, indicating that relatively closed countries stand to benefit most from …

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Fiscal Policy Effects and Capital Mobility in Some Latin American Countries

Mora Mora, Jose - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between the size of the fiscal multiplier and the degree of capital mobility in some Latin American countries. The Mundell (1963) and Fleming (1962) model establishes that this effect might be very large or very small (very close to zero) depending on the...

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Fiscal Policy, Sectoral Allocation, and the Skill Premium : Explaining the Decline in Latin America's Income Inequality

Guerra-Salas, Juan - 2020

This paper offers an explanation for the substantial decline in income inequality in Latin America during the 2000s, which is known to have been mainly driven by a decline in the skill premium. The 2000s were characterized by an economic expansion concentrated on low-skill-intensive service...

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Structural Change and the BOP-Constraint : Why Did Latin America Fail to Converge?

Cimoli, Mario - 2010

This paper discusses why Latin America failed to achieve sustainable convergence with the developed world since 1960 and analyses different phases of convergence and divergence using a structuralist-Keynesian approach. First, it is argued that there are critical differences between Latin...

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