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Modeling public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2010-09)
The papers included in this book can be categorized into four main groups. First, we review the usefulness of CGE models for policymakers and discuss the relevance of this tool for international organizations and governments. ...
Price elasticity of Central American agricultural exports
(1994-04)
The economies of the Central American countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua); are largely dependent on four major traditional export products: bananas, coffee, cotton and sugar. The share of ...
Preliminary overview of the economies of the Caribbean 2021–2022
(ECLAC, 2023-01-17)
This overview examines the economic performance of economies of the Caribbean in 2021 and comprises four chapters. The first chapter provides a comparative analysis across Caribbean economies of the main macroeconomic ...
Creditor protection and credit response to shocks
(2007)
This article studies the relationship between creditor protection and credit responses
to macroeconomic shocks. Using a data set on legal determinants of finance in a panel
of data on aggregate credit growth for 79 ...
¿Does risk aversion affects expected stock returns?
(Universidad de Chile, 2019-04)
We estimate an aggregate time-varying risk aversion function using option, stock return and
macroeconomic data for a sample of 8 countries. We document that, in most of the countries,
the degree of risk aversion is ...
Does joining the European Union increase the happiness level in nations?
(Universidad de Chile, 2018-06-06)
This paper aims to empirically test whether joining the European Union has increased the happiness level in nations. 12 European countries are analyzed over the time-period 1998-2017, and data is obtained from the World ...
The comparative economic performance of Chile: 1810 - 1995
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
This paper studies the comparative economic record of Chile from immediately after Independence (1820) to the present, as a first step to relate economic policies to that performance in an Economic History to be written. ...
Micro-prices and aggregate stickiness: evidence for Chile
(Universidad de Chile, 2016-05)
This research describes price-setting over time and across items in Chile, an emerging
market economy. The microeconomic database underlying the consumer price
index (CPI) is used to characterize microeconomic pricing ...
Swerves and skids by the Venezuelan economy
(1997-12)
Now that the neoliberal economic model, which is still in force as Latin America prepares to see out the milennium, has completed a number of years of application, it is becoming increasingly desirable to assess the ...
The number of banking relationships and the business cycle: New evidence from Colombia
We study the determinants of multiple bank-firm relationships using a uniquely rich data set comprised of information on individual loans of a large number of firms in Colombia. We control for firm-specific variables and ...