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4676: Revisiting Overborrowing and its Policy Implications

Gianluca D. Benigno, Huigang Chen, Christopher Otrok, Alessandro Rebucci and Eric R. Young

4675: Agricultural Productivity Growth, Efficiency Change and Technical Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carlos Ludena

4674: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform: The Case of Colombia, 1986-2006

Mauricio Olivera, Monica Pachon and Guillermo Perry

4673: The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Alejandro Hoyos, Hugo Rolando Ñopo and Ximena Peña

4672: The Discovery of New Export Products in Ecuador

Ivan Hernandez, Nathalie Cely, Francisco Gonzalez, Ernesto Munoz and Ivan Prieto

4671: Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth

Eduardo Alfredo Cavallo, Sebastian Galiani, Ilan Noy and Juan Pantano

4670: Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study

Ricardo Monges-Gonzalez and John Hewitt

4669: Industrial Policies in Colombia

Marcela Meléndez and Guillermo Perry

4668: Multilateral Safety Nets for Financial Crises

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

4667: External Capital Structures and Oil Price Volatility

John D. Burger, Alessandro Rebucci, Francis E. Warnock and Veronica Cacdac Warnock

4666: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Argentina

Alejandro Bonvecchi

4665: Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to "New Century, Old Disparities"

Alejandro Hoyos and Hugo Rolando Ñopo

4664: Corporate Tax Stimulus and Investment in Colombia

Arturo José Galindo and Marcela Meléndez

4663: Integración financiera en Centro América: Nuevos desafíos en el contexto de la crisis internacional

Arturo José Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

4662: The Political Economy of Productivity. The Case of Chile

Cristobal Aninat, Jose Miguel Benavente, Ignacio Briones, Nicolas Eyzaguirre, Patricio Navia and Jocelyn Olivari

4661: Analysis of Several Productive Development Policies in Uruguay

Juan José Barrios, Nestor Gandelman and Gustavo Michelin

4660: Veto Players and Policy Trade-Offs- An Intertemporal Approach to Study the Effects of Political Institutions on Policy

Carlos G. Scartascini, Mariano Tommasi and Ernesto Stein

4659: Is Latin America on the Right Track? An Analysis of Medium-Term Frameworks and the Budget Process

Carlos G. Scartascini and Gabriel Filc

4658: Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America

Martin Ardanaz, Carlos G. Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

4657: Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica: Market Failures, Government Failures, and Policy Outcomes

Ricardo Monge-Gonzalez, Luis Rivera and Julio Rosales-Tijerino

4656: Productive Development Policies in Jamaica

Monica Panadeiros and Warren Benfield

4655: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Brazil: The Rationale for the Suboptimal Equilibrum

Marcus Andre Melo, Carlos Pereira and Saulo Souza

4654: Misallocation and Productivity in Colombia’s Manufacturing Industries

Adriana Camacho and Emily Conover

4653: On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Christian Daude and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

4652: Estimating the Direct Economic Damage of the Earthquake in Haiti

Eduardo Alfredo Cavallo, Andrew Powell and Oscar Becerra

4651: Financial Integration and Foreign Banks in Latin America: How Do They Impact the Transmission of External Financial Shocks?

Arturo José Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

4650: Productive Development Policies in Trinidad and Tobago: A Critical Review

Ramiro Moya, Anne-Marie Mohammed and Sandra Sookram

4649: The Economics of Natural Disasters: A Survey

Eduardo Alfredo Cavallo and Ilan Noy

4648: La formación de los economistas en América Latina

Eduardo Lora and Hugo Rolando Ñopo

4647: Institutional Quality and Fiscal Transparency

Nicolo Andreula, Alberto Chong and Jorge Guillén

4646: Reforms and Counter-Reforms in Bolivia

Luis Carlos Jemio, Fernando Candia and Jose Luis Evia

4645: Happiness, Ideology and Crime in Argentine Cities

Rafael Di Tella and Ernesto Schargrodsky

4644: The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?

Carlos G. Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

4643: Political Institutions and Street Protests in Latin America

Fabiana V Machado, Carlos G. Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

4642: Financial Dependence, Formal Credit and Informal Jobs - New Evidence from Brazilian Household Data

Luis A.V. Catão, Carmen Pages and Maria Fernanda Rosales

4641: The Political Economy of Productivity in Argentina: Interpretation and Illustration

Santiago Urbiztondo, Marcela Cristini, Cynthia Moskovitz and Sebastian Saiegh

4640: New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America

Juan Pablo Atal, Hugo Rolando Ñopo and Natalia Winder

4639: Gender Wage Gaps in Central American Countries: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Approach

Ted Enamorado, Ana Carolina Izaguirre and Hugo Rolando Ñopo

4638: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies for the Perfect Storm: The Case of The Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad & Tobago

André Minella, Andrew Powell, Alessandro Rebucci and Nelson Souza-Sobrino

4637: Social Divisions in School Participation and Attainment in India: 1983-2004

Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Uma Sarada Kambhampati and Florencia Lopez Boo

4636: Calidad del empleo y productividad laboral en el Perú

Juan Chacaltana and Gustavo Yamada

4635: Valuing Health Conditions - Insights from Happiness Surveys across Countries and Cultures

Carol Graham, Lucas Felipe Higuera Jaramillo and Eduardo Lora

4634: Social Mobility in Latin America: A Review of Existing Evidence

Viviane Azevedo and Cesar Patricio Bouillon

4633: Politics, Policies and the Dynamics of Aggregate Productivity in Colombia

Marcela Eslava and Marcela Meléndez

4632: La enseñanza de economía en Bolivia y Chile

Carlos Gustavo Machado, Lourdes Espinoza and Katia Makhlouf

4631: How Much Are We Willing To Pay to Send Poor Adolescents to School? Simulating Changes to Mexico`s Oportunidades in Urban Areas

Viviane Azevedo, Cesar Patricio Bouillon and Patricia Yanez-Pagans

4630: Financial Development and TFP Growth: Cross-Country and Industry-Level Evidence

Francisco Arizala, Eduardo Alfredo Cavallo and Arturo José Galindo

4629: The Multilateral Response to the Global Crisis: Rationale, Modalities, and Feasibility

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias, Andrew Powell and Alessandro Rebucci

4628: Crisis Response in Latin America: Is the "Rainy Day" at Hand?

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Peter J. Montiel

4627: Education and Democratic Preferences

Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein