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Authorities’ Fiscal Forecasts in Latin America: Are they Optimistic?
Economía, 2023 Do governments in Latin America tend to be optimistic when preparing budgetary projections? We address this question by constructing a novel dataset of the authorities’ fiscal forecasts in six Latin American economies, using data from annual budget ...
Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov +3 more
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The Governance of the International Monetary Fund [PDF]
, 2003 AbstractIn view of its influence, it is of interest to consider to what extent the IMF's (International Monetary Fund) own governance meets the standards of transparency and accountability required to ensure the ownership of programmes by member countries, and the prudent and effective use of international public resources.
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Crypto assets and CBDCs in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and risks
Latin American Journal of Central BankingAfter providing a general overview of the nature, pros, and cons of crypto assets and CBDCs, this paper focuses on documenting their recent experience in LAC.
Olga Bespalova +10 more
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Economía, 2020 This paper explores the role of specific structural distortions in explaining Mexico’s weak productivity growth through the misallocation of resources across firms. The paper makes two contributions.
Florian Misch, Christian Saborowski
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Corporate Investment in Emerging Markets: The Role of Commodity Prices
Economía, 2017 We examine how firm-level and country-specific macroeconomic variables determine corporate investment in emerging markets. In particular, we investigate how investment decisions are affected by changes in country-specific commodity export prices, using ...
Nicolás E. Magud, Sebastián Sosa
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Copper‐based composites enhanced with carbon feature convenient mechanical properties and favorable electric conductivity. Processing via deformation and thermomechanical treatments can introduce advantageous microstructures further enhancing their performance. Herein, copper–graphene powder‐based composites are directly consolidated via rotary swaging
Radim Kocich +3 more
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Foreign Investor Flows and Sovereign Bond Yields in Advanced Economies
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2016 Asset allocation decisions of international investors are at the core of capital fl ows. This paper explores the impact of these decisions on long-term government bond yields, using a quarterly investor base dataset for 22 advanced economies over 2004 ...
Serkan Arslanalp, Tigran Poghosyan
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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Frontier and Emerging Markets: A Perspective from Portfolio Flows and Financial Integration
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2019 This paper investigates to what extent low-income developing countries (LIDCs) characterized as frontier markets (FMs) have begun to be subject to capital flows dynamics typically associated with emerging markets (EMs).
Nordine Abidi +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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