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Corporate risk management and exchange rate volatility in Latin America
(ECLAC, 2003-03)
Abstract
This article studies the currency risk management of multinational companies with investments in Latin American countries. The analysis is centred on episodes of currency or financial shocks, searching into the ...
The determinants of foreign direct investment in Brazil: empirical analysis for 2001-2013
(2017-04)
This article aims to analyse the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Brazil between 2001 and 2013. It uses a vector error correction (VEC) model to analyse both the long-term function and the impulse-response ...
Equity, foreign investment and international competitiveness
(1998-08)
Is the degree of competitiveness of countries independent of their degree of inequality? Is competitiveness only a question of microeconomic and sectoral efficiency, of the real exchange rate, or is it also a social question? ...
Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 1997
(CEPAL, 1997-12)
Despite the instability in international financial markets in recent months and the turbulence it has created in Latin American stock markets, in 1997 the region's economies put out their best performance in a quarter of ...
The fiscal impact of trade liberalization and commodity price fluctuation: the case of Dominican Republic, 1980-1998
(ECLAC, 2000-02-29)
Summary During the 1980's, the Dominican Republic made attempts at macroeconomic reform that saw little success. A decade later a stabilization and structural reform package was implemented. This package included, among ...
Preliminary Overview of the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean 2006
(ECLAC, 2006-12)
Summary An economic growth rate of 5.3% is estimated for 2006, which means that the Latin American and Caribbean region will mark a third consecutive year of growth at over 4%. Thus, the region has again performed well ...
Financial crisis and national policy issues: an overview
(ECLAC, 2003-03)
Abstract In this overview we analyse, first, why funds continued to flow towards emerging economies, while fundamentals in host countries had been deteriorating before the Asian crisis (a rising external deficit, with a ...
Trade and investment flows between the Caribbean and the rest of the hemisphere in the context of the FTAA
(ECLAC, 2001-11-12)
Introduction
The evolution of trade and investment flows between the Caribbean and the rest of the western hemisphere has been influenced by historical incorporation into the world economy and changes over time. The most ...
Remittances by emigrants: issues and evidence
(ECLAC, 2003-10)
Remittances are, currently, the second most important source of external finance to developing countries, after foreign direct investment. They do surpass foreign aid. Remittances tend to be more stable than volatile capital ...
The international asparagus business in Peru
(2014-04)
A variety of methodologies, such as the Foreign Trade Competitiveness Index, the Foreign Trade Policy Index and the Tradecan competitiveness matrix, reveal a process of adaptation to changes in world trade in the period ...