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Date issued: 8월 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio;Pesaran, M. Hashem;Rebucci, Alessandro

The 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the subsequent anemic recovery have rekindled academic interest in quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics. This paper studies the…

Date issued: 8월 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Chisari, Omar O.;Miller, Sebastián J.

This paper examines the effectiveness of carbon taxes on macroeconomic performance when manufacturing firms have the opportunity to change their scale of operation and degree of formality. The…

Date issued: 8월 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Saiegh, Sebastián

This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space…

Date issued: 8월 2014 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): McCarthy, Nancy;Henderson, Heath

Many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are interested in diversifying their energy sources for energy security and in contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases. Non-traditional…

Date issued: 8월 2014
Author(s): Márquez Fariña, Manuel;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Ocampo, Fernando;Solar, Rodolfo;Arciniegas Serna, Hernando;Meza Monge, Nilo;Casas Gragea, Angel María;Corrales, Salvador;Jara M., Miguel Angel;Mansilla, Patricio;Pozo, Andrés;Montenegro, Gisela;Camacho Inostroza, Oscar;Campos, Rosario;Gómez Minujín, Gala;Blyde, Juan S.

The Inter-American Development Bank, in the context of its integration mandate in the region, has been working and supporting development actions in border areas and transboundary cooperation and…

Date issued: 8월 2014
Author(s): Márquez Fariña, Manuel;Volpe Martincus, Christian;Ocampo, Fernando;Solar, Rodolfo;Arciniegas Serna, Hernando;Meza Monge, Nilo;Casas Gragea, Angel María;Corrales, Salvador;Jara M., Miguel Angel;Mansilla, Patricio;Pozo, Andrés;Montenegro, Gisela;Camacho Inostroza, Oscar;Campos, Rosario;Gómez Minujín, Gala;Blyde, Juan S.

El presente número de la Revista Integración & Comercio incluye una serie de contribuciones interesantes que exploran los desafíos y oportunidades de mejora en materia de facilitación, seguridad…

Date issued: 8월 2014
Author(s): Ruprah, Inder J.;Sierra, Ricardo

About 29 percent of teenagers are bullied at school in the Caribbean. Victims of bullying are more lonely, sleep less, and have fewer friends than do their nonbullied peers. Although victims of…

Date issued: 8월 2014
Author(s): Crespi, Gustavo;Tacsir, Ezequiel;Vargas, Fernando

This paper analyzes and compares the determinants of innovation in the service industry and its impact on labor productivity at the firm level in three countries of Latin America (Chile, Colombia,…

Date issued: 8월 2014
Author(s): Navarro, Lucas

This paper uses administrative data from projects for which an application was made to CORFO's (Chile's main development agency) Seed Capital Program (SCP) during the 2008-12 period. This…

Date issued: 8월 2014
Author(s): Arce, Fernando;Powell, Andrew

The June 2014 surveys of expectations conducted by Central Banks with inflation targeting regimes indicate that average growth expectations for 2014 have fallen from 3.6% to 3.4% while inflation…