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Date issued: Ιουν 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carballo, Jerónimo;Graziano, Alejandro;Schaur, Georg;Volpe Martincus, Christian

We examine transaction-level Peruvian import data to show that firms are subject to significant costs of port-of-entry delays. At the transaction level, we observe the time it takes a shipment to…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Carballo, Jerónimo;Schaur, Georg;Graziano, Alejandro;Volpe Martincus, Christian

In this paper, we estimate the effects of transit systems that substantiallystreamline administrative processing of trade flows. In so doing, we use a
unique dataset that consists of the…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Volpe Martincus, Christian;Carballo, Jerónimo;Graziano, Alejandro

In this paper, we estimate the effects of custom-related delays on firms'exports. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the universe
of Uruguay's export transactions…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Monteverde, Hugo;Pereyra, Andrés;Pérez, Marcelo

El presente trabajo surge como una respuesta al problema de los sobrecostos en los proyectos de infraestructura que financia el BID, y busca aportar al abordaje técnicamente consistente de los costos…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016
Author(s): Jimenez Mori, Raul Alberto

This paper examines three intrinsic underlying variables affecting the provision of rural electricity services: household income, household location and a country's relative wealth in terms of…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016
Author(s): Sosa, Mariano;Powell, Andrew

The April 2016 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that simple average growth expectations for 2016 for the eight countries covered by REVELA…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016
Author(s): Alvarez, Roberto

This technical note examines the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) and research and development (R&D) investment on innovation and productivity in Chilean firms, in…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Beliz, Gustavo;Phelps, Edmund;Myers, Margaret;Moneta, Carlos;Ellis, Evan;Hartmann, Dominik;Jara-Figueroa, Cristina;Guevara, Miguel;Simoes, Alex;Hidalgo, César;Guillamon, Bernardo E.;Jenkins, Rhys;Gallagher, Kevin;Ruiz, Marco Vinicio;Rebolledo, Andrés;Ferreyros, Eduardo;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Soares, Andre;Baumann, Renato;Campos, Rosario;Gayá, Romina;Qianru, Song;Wagner, Rodrigo;Piñeiro, Martín;Bianchi, Eduardo;Yang, Wanming;Koch-Weser, Iacob;Warner, Eric;Gereffi, Gary;Aróstica, Pamela;Sheng, Andrew;Tang, Jun

How to build a convergence within the diversity of integrationist experiences? How can global efforts converge with regional and national realities through a glocal (global + local) governance that…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016
Author(s): Estevadeordal, Antoni;Beliz, Gustavo;Phelps, Edmund;Myers, Margaret;Moneta, Carlos;Ellis, Evan;Hartmann, Dominik;Jara-Figueroa, Cristina;Guevara, Miguel;Simoes, Alex;Hidalgo, César;Guillamon, Bernardo E.;Jenkins, Rhys;Gallagher, Kevin;Ruiz, Marco Vinicio;Rebolledo, Andrés;Ferreyros, Eduardo;Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio;Soares, Andre;Baumann, Renato;Campos, Rosario;Gayá, Romina;Qianru, Song;Wagner, Rodrigo;Piñeiro, Martín;Bianchi, Eduardo;Yang, Wanming;Koch-Weser, Iacob;Warner, Eric;Gereffi, Gary;Aróstica, Pamela;Sheng, Andrew;Tang, Jun

¿Cómo construir una convergencia en la diversidad de las experiencias integracionistas? ¿Cómo pueden confluir esfuerzos globales con realidades regionales y nacionales a través de una gobernanza…

Date issued: Ιουν 2016 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ajzenman, Nicolás;Jaitman, Laura

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region in the world, with an annual homicide rate of more than 20 per 100,000 population and with an increasing trend. Yet most evidence of crime…