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Date issued: 12월 2005
Author(s): Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo

El presente informe recoge las experiencias del grupo BID durante el período 1990-2004. En su carácter de organismo regional de desarrollo, el grupo BID ha realizado esfuerzos en colaboración con los…

Date issued: 12월 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

This paper discusses coordination failures, their relevance to developing countries, and the circumstances under which they occur, arguing that that clusters can be seen as agglomerations of firms…

Date issued: 12월 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

Industrial agglomerations or 'clusters' arise in the presence of industry-specific and local externalities, also called Marshallian externalities. The standard argument is that such…

Date issued: 12월 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro

This paper studies the relationship between creditor protection and credit volatility. During the negative phase of the business cycle, credit contracts more in countries with poor creditor…

Date issued: 12월 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galindo, Arturo;Micco, Alejandro;Powell, Andrew

We suggest that foreign banks may represent a trade-off for their developing country hosts. A portfolio model is developed to show that a more diversified international bank may be one of lower,…

Date issued: 12월 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Galdo, Virgilio;Torero, Máximo;Chong, Alberto E.

This paper takes advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was required by government to randomly install and operate public pay phones in…

Date issued: 12월 2005 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Maloney, William;Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an innovation shortfall, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (R…

Date issued: 12월 2005
Author(s): Vives, Antonio;Peinado-Vara, Estrella;Teixidó, Soledad;Schwalb, María Matilde;Gutiérrez, Roberto;Pizzolante, Italo;Majluf, Nicolás;Rader, Jim;Austin, James

III Inter American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility Proceedings,Santiago Chile.

Date issued: 12월 2005
Author(s): Rigobón, Roberto

El presente estudio versa sobre el establecimiento de un fondo de estabilización del precio del petróleo que mitigue el impacto del aumento en el precio internacional del crudo sobre las economías…

Date issued: 12월 2005
Author(s): Taylor, J. Edward;Yúñez Naude, Antonio;Jesurun-Clements, Nancy

El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo medir los posibles efectos directos e indirectos en la economía rural de las nuevas condiciones comerciales que enfrentan El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras y…