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Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Alonso, Pablo;Schijman, Agustina;Ahumada, Alejandro;Alejandre, Florencia;Carpanelli, María del Mar;Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Elliott, Victoria;Florimon, Andrea;García, Juan Felipe;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.;Gwin, Catherine;Haarsager, Ulrike;Hernández, María José;Huppi, Monika;Khadr, Ali;Legarreta, Regina;Linares, Ana María;Michelitsch, Roland;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Putic, Melanie;Setien Santianez, Loreto;Soldano, Miguel;Soriano, Alejandro;Szwedzki, Roni;Wattenbach, Horst

In 2010 the IDB’s Board of Governors approved the 9th General Capital Increase (IDB-9), adding $70 billion in paid-in and callable capital to IDB’s existing $100 billion capital base. Governors tied…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Gray, Cheryl;Alonso, Pablo;Schijman, Agustina;Ahumada, Alejandro;Alejandre, Florencia;Carpanelli, María del Mar;Crespo, Anna Risi Vianna;Elliott, Victoria;Florimon, Andrea;García, Juan Felipe;Gonzalez Diez, Verónica M.;Gwin, Catherine;Haarsager, Ulrike;Hernández, María José;Huppi, Monika;Khadr, Ali;Legarreta, Regina;Linares, Ana María;Michelitsch, Roland;Puerta, Juan Manuel;Putic, Melanie;Setien Santianez, Loreto;Soldano, Miguel;Soriano, Alejandro;Szwedzki, Roni;Wattenbach, Horst

En 2010, la Asamblea de Gobernadores del BID aprobó el Noveno Aumento General de Capital, que incrementó la base de capital de US$100.000 millones con que contaba el BID en US$70.000 millones en…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Rossi, José Luiz

This paper studies the predictive power of several proxies for liquidity in forecasting exchange rates for a set of countries from January 2001 to April 2013. The results indicate that changes in…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Goñi Pacchioni, Edwin A.;Gonzales, Alessandra;Pardo, Francisco

Knowledge is transferred between firms explicitly or tacitly. While non-embedded knowledge can be transferred explicitly through patent citations, embedded knowledge is essentially transferred…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cravo, Tulio;Jacinto, Paulo;Schimanski, Caroline

The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Meltzer, Joshua P.

This report outlines a range of reforms needed to develop a digital economy and to take advantage of digital trade opportunities. Many of the recommended reforms are domestic in nature, such as…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Hernaiz, Daniel;Miller, Sebastián J.;Pedroni, Peter

A number of policy discussions in macroeconomics have to do with the impact of commodity price fluctuations on fiscal policy in commodity exporting countries. Commodity price movements, however, have…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Miller, Sebastián J.;Ruiz-Tagle V., Cristóbal

This paper examines the effect of exposure to air pollution on the probability of a pregnancy ending in a stillbirth delivery. We use official registry data of pregnancy outcomes and municipality-…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018
Author(s): Vera-Cossio, Diego A.

Decentralizing the allocation of resources to community members is an increasingly popular form of delivering public resources in developing countries. However, this approach is associated with the…

Date issued: Αυγ 2018 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Araujo, María Caridad;Rubio-Codina, Marta;Dormal, Marta

As home visiting programs continue to expand, it is crucial to develop cost-effective methods to monitor their quality that are feasible at-scale. This paper compares two instruments widely used…