Economia: Fall 2009: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association

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· Brookings Institution Press
Ebook
250
Pages

About this ebook

Tentative contents include

Credit Ratings in the Presence of Bailout: The Case of Mexican Subnational Government Debt
Fausto Hernández-Trillo and Ricardo Smith-Ramírez (CIDE)

Thirty Years of Currency Crises in Argentina: External Shocks or Domestic Fragility?
Graciela Kaminsky (George Washington University), Amine Mati (IMF), and Nada Choueiri (IMF)

Do Longer School Days Have Enduring Educational, Occupational, or Income Effects? A Natural Experiment on the Effects of Lengthening Primary School Days in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Juan J. Llach (IAE-Universidad Austral, Argentina), Cecilia Adrogué (Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina), and María Elina Gigaglia (IAE-Universidad Austral)

Who Saw Sovereign Debt Crises Coming?
Sebastián Nieto-Parra (OECD)

About the author

Eduwardo Engel is a professor of Economics at Yale University. Francisco Ferreira is the Deputy Regional Chief Economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank. He has published widely in the fields of poverty, inequality, and the political economy of development, with a focus on Latin America. Roberto Rigobon is currently the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Applied Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT; a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a visiting professor at IESA.

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