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A program for the interactive design of elliptic approximation functions on personal computers 1s presented. The use of non-classical el1iptic functions and arithmetic-geometric iterations results in a substantial reduct...

We apply a variant of the microeconometric decomposition methodology proposed in Bourguignon et al. (1998) to assess the relevance of various factors that affected inequality in the period 1986-1998 in the Greater Buenos...

This paper presents a simple model of debt contracts in order to analyze the conditions under which domestic residents would choose to denominate debts in "dollars". In the model, borrowers are producers of non-traded go...

This paper discusses a system which uses machine vision algorithms for the detection of tubes in an extremely "noisy" industrial environment . The heart of the algorithm consists of sampling of the image in predefined sp...

The 1980s have been dubbed the “lost decade” in Latin America because during those harsh ten years GDP per capita declined in that region at an average annual rate of 1.5%, in contrast with the 2.3% and 1.8% increase...

Using urban household surveys, we constructed a panel dataset to study the effects of the Argentine macroeconomic crisis of 1999-2002 with the aim of (1) identifying the most vulnerable households, (2) investigating whet...

Over the last decade the Argentine banking industry has been subject to important regulatory changes, increased internationalization and restructuring. The way in which this process has affected the degree of competition...

The paper provides evidence on what affects at the margin the cost and availability of bank credit for firms in Argentina. We study in particular how banks use different pieces of private and public information to screen...

In this paper we study dollarization as a commitment device that the Central Bank could use to avoid getting involved in an undesirable banking-sector bailout. We show how a political process could induce an equilibrium ...

I extend the traditional Diamond Dybvig framework with aggregate liquidity shocks to small open economies. Currency board may imply perfect risk sharing (with perfect credit markets), contrary to Chang and Velasco's find...

This paper studies the interest-rate-driven business cycles of a small open economy (SOE). For than end a costly operated banking system is added to the standard real-business-cycles model. Banks are the only domestic ag...

The Library Linkage Project (PrEBi) has as main objective to share the bibliographic acervus resident in ISTEC Institutions, in order to satisfy the demand of Researchers, Teachers and Students. To manage the bibliograph...

Celsius Imago is a scalable software, currently in development, that already counts with some of the tools necessary to solve the previously announced issues: is capable to improve the characteristics of existing documen...

The cooperative and collaborative work between Universities and Libraries are key points for teachers, researchers and students to make progress in their studies and research. The Library Linkage Initiative has pursued t...

The Library Linkage Project (Proyecto de Enlace de Bibliotecas-PrEBi) of La Plata National University (UNLP) if part of Library Linkage initiative (LL) of Ibero American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC...

A great deal of empirical work has convincingly shown that there is a positive association between financial development and economic growth, and some recent work has even provided evidence that the former causes the lat...

This paper studies private saving decisions in Latin America in the 1990s, with special focus on corporate saving. We investigate the puzzling omission of corporate saving in private saving studies, and afterwards we cal...

The 1990s emerging-markets crises were characterized by sudden reversals in inflows of foreign capital followed by unusually large declines in current account deficits, private expenditures, production, and prices of non...

We develop a model in which the elasticity of credit to exogenous shocks depends on creditor rights regulations. We show that an increase in creditor protection reduces the elasticity of credit supply to exogenous shocks...

Crime levels have risen significantly in Argentina during recent years. In this study, we analyze the relationship between crime victimization and income distribution. Our main question is whether the rich or the poor ha...

This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

In contrast to previous empirical work on electoral cycles, which implicitly assumes the executive has full discretion over fiscal policy, this paper contends that under separation of powers an unaligned legislature may ...

This paper develops direct tests for evaluating the performance of two types of emergency employment programs put in place in Chile since 1999. Our results suggest: First, decentralized and market-driven programs (subsid...

This paper presents a model designed to study the dynamic response of the economy under a fixed peg to the dollar to an international (and exogenous) real appreciation of the dollar, when there is wage and price stickine...