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Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Arce, Fernando;Powell, Andrew

The July 2013 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that growth expectations have fallen while average inflation expectations remained constant…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Scartascini, Carlos;Ardanaz, Martín

According to an influential theoretical argument, presidential systems tend to present smaller governments because the separation between those who decide the size of the fiscal purse and those who…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Bastos, Fabiano;Pineda, Emilio

We estimate the fiscal space of Brazilian States defined as the difference between a State's actual debt and the theoretical debt limit implied by the historical behavior of its policymakers. We…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): Varsano, Ricardo

Este artigo apresenta as razões que levaram os governos estaduais e federal a cooperarem na elaboração da Lei Kandir, descreve o processo de elaboração da lei, suas principais provisões e as…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Tavella, Pilar;Pedemonte, Mathieu;Powell, Andrew;Cavallo, Eduardo A.

This paper proposes a new taxonomy of Sudden Stops comprised of seven categories with definitions depending on the behavior of gross and net capital flows. The incidence of different types of Sudden…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lopez Boo, Florencia

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development- as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different…

Date issued: 8月 2013
Author(s): García Zaballos, Antonio;González Herranz, Félix;Iglesias Rodriguez, Enrique;Porrúa, Miguel

En el presente documento, se analiza la situación de la banda ancha en Panamá. Para ello, se exponen los resultados obtenidos en el Índice de Desarrollo de la Banda Ancha, recientemente desarrollado…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galiani, Sebastián;Meléndez Arjona, Marcela

En este documento se exploran, en un contexto experimental, el impacto de dos intervenciones dirigidas a incentivar la formalización empresarial en Bogotá, Colombia, y el impacto de la formalización…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Lora, Eduardo

The distance between perception and reality with respect to the social domains of life is often striking. Using survey data collected on Latin American countries, this paper provides an overview of…

Date issued: 8月 2013 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo;Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge;Vulovic, Violeta

Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin…