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123312: Do payroll tax breaks stimulate formality? Evidence from Colombia’s reform

Adriana D. Kugler, Maurice D. Kugler and Luis O. Herrera-Prada

123311: Assessing health reform in Colombia: from theory to practice

Alejandro Gaviria, Carlos Medina and Carolina Mejía

123310: Are daily financial data useful for forecasting GDP? Evidence from Mexico

Luis M. Gómez-Zamudio and Raul Ibarra

123309: Implications of Brazilian institutional guidelines on educational efficiency

Marcus Gerardus L. Nascimento, Kalinca L. Becker and Mario Jorge Mendonça

123308: Comments

Liliana Rojas-Suarez

123307: The impact of export restrictions on production: a synthetic control approach

Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Martín Rossi and Rodolfo Stucchi

123306: Editors’ summary

Raquel Bernal, Marcela Eslava, Ugo Panizza and Roberto Rigobon

123305: Comment

Daniel E. Ortega

123304: The macroeconomic and socioeconomic effects of structural reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean

Antonio David, Takuji Komatsuzaki and Samuel Pienknagura

123303: The dynamics of income inequality in Mexico since NAFTA

Gerardo Esquivel

123302: School choice, stratification, and information on school performance: lessons from Chile

Patrick McEwan, Miguel Urquiola and Emiliana Vegas

123301: Financial globalization in emerging economies: much ado about nothing?

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Tomas Williams

123300: The effect of Mexican workforce migration on the Mexican maquiladora labor market

Scott E. Atkinson and Marilyn Ibarra

123299: Informality and optimal public policy

David Bardey and Daniel Mejía

123298: Public sector wages and bureaucratic quality: evidence from Latin America

Ugo Panizza

123297: Nowcasting Mexico’s short-term GDP growth in real-time: a factor model versus professional forecasters

Marcelo Delajara, Federico Hernández Álvarez and Abel Rodríguez Tirado

123296: Editors’ summary

Raquel Bernal, Marcela Eslava, Ugo Panizza and Roberto Rigobón

123295: Editors’ summary

Raquel Bernal, Marcela Eslava, Ugo Panizza and Roberto Rigobón

123294: Taxing labor income in an economy with high employment informality

Arturo Antón-Sarabia and Alejandro Rasteletti

123293: Organization and information in the fight against crime: the integration of police forces in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Rodrigo Soares and Igor Viveiros

123292: Editors’ summary

Raquel Bernal, Ugo Panizza, Roberto Rigobón and Rodrigo Soares

123291: Inflation targeting in Colombia, 2002–12

Franz Hamann, Marc Hofstetter and Miguel Urrutia

123290: Editors' summary

Raquel Bernal, Ugo Panizza, Roberto Rigobón and Rodrigo Soares

123289: The antecedents and aftermath of financial crises as told by Carlos F. Díaz-Alejandro

Carmen Reinhart

123288: Retail price setting in Uruguay

Fernando Borraz and Leandro Zipitria

123287: The vacation is over: implications for the Caribbean of opening U.S.-Cuba tourism

Rafael Romeu

123286: Comment

Roberto Chang

123285: Comments

Osmel Manzano Mazzali and Marco Bonomo

123284: Peer effects on a fertility decision: an application for Medellín, Colombia

Leonardo Morales

123283: Comments

Peter Reuter, John Roman and Alejandro Gaviria

123282: Comments

Eduardo Morón

123281: Presidential address: macroeconomics and online prices

Roberto Rigobón

123280: Inflation expectations in Latin America

Fabia A. De Carvalho and Maurício S. Bugarin

123279: Comments

Oscar Landerretche and Roberto Rigobón

123278: Global deleveraging and foreign banks’ lending to Latin American countries

Herman Kamil and Kulwant Rai

123277: Comments

Juliano Assunção and Eric Verhoogen

123276: Foreign capital and gender differences in promotions: evidence from large Brazilian manufacturing firms

Danilo Coelho, Marcelo Fernandes and Miguel N. Foguel

123275: Comment

Alicia Garcia Herrero and Enestor Dos Santos

123274: Comments

David McKenzie and Rodrigo Soares

123273: Estimates of the benefit incidence of workfare

Lucas Ronconi

123272: Comments

Carlos Medina and Raquel Bernal

123271: Comments

Marcela Eslava and Jorge M. Streb

123270: Stratification and public utility services in Colombia: subsidies to households or distortion of housing prices?

Carlos Medina and Leonardo Morales

123269: Comment

David Skeie

123268: Comments

José De Gregorio and Norman V. Loayza

123267: Communicational bias in monetary policy: can words forecast deeds?

Pablo Pincheira and Mauricio Calani

123266: Editor's summary

Andrés Velasco

123265: Editors' summary

Raquel Bernal, Ugo Panizza, Rodrigo Soares and Roberto Rigobón

123264: Editor's summary

Andrés Velasco

123263: The impact of globalization on the poor in Latin America

Erik Thorbecke and Machiko Nissanke

123262: Comments

Gonzalo Castañeda and Jaime Saavedra

123261: Comments

Alberto Ades and Graciela Kaminsky

123260: Gaucho banking redux

Gerardo Della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor

123259: Comment

Luis A. V. Catão

123258: Comments

José Miguel Benavente and Francisco Rodríguez

123257: Comments

Eduardo Fernández-Arias and Ugo Panizza

123256: Comments

Graciela L. Kaminsky and Andrea Repetto

123255: Comments

Ernesto Talvi and Abhijit Banerjee

123254: Editor's summary

Andrés Velasco

123253: Missed opportunities: innovation and resource-based growth in Latin America

William F. Maloney

123252: Long-term care in Latin America and the Caribbean: theory and policy considerations

Martín Caruso Bloeck, Pablo Ibarrarán and Sebastian Galiani

123251: Evaluating different types of enterprise support programs using panel firm data: evidence from the Mexican manufacturing sector

Gladys López-Acevedo and Mónica Tinajero-Bravo

123250: Comment

Gustavo Suárez

123249: Bias in economic news: the reporting of nominal exchange rate behavior in Colombia

Rodrigo Taborda

123248: Comment

Laurence Ball

123247: Temporal aggregation in political budget cycles

Jorge Streb, Daniel Lema and Pablo Garofalo

123246: All that glitters is not gold: a ranking of global rankings

Ela Díaz and Rodrigo Valdés

123245: A comparison of saving rates: microdata evidence from seventeen Latin American and Caribbean countries

Nestor Gandelman

123244: Identifying the bank lending channel in Brazil through data frequency

Christiano A. Coelho, João M. P. De Mello and Marcio Garcia

123243: Cash transfers, conditions, and school enrollment in Ecuador

Norbert Schady and Maria Caridad Araujo

123242: Cash transfers in Latin America: effects on poverty and redistribution

Veronica Amarante and Martín Brun

123241: Identifying the main emitters of carbon dioxide in Mexico: a multi-sectoral study

Joana Chapa and Araceli Ortega

123240: Comment

Marcela Eslava

123239: NAFTA and manufacturing productivity in Mexico

Ernesto López-Córdova

123238: Comment

Lorenzo L. Perez

123237: Full dollarization: the case of Panama

Ilan Goldfajn and Gino Olivares

123236: Thirty years of currency crises in Argentina: external shocks or domestic fragility?

Graciela Kaminsky, Amine Mati and Nada Choueiri

123235: How sensitive are Latin American exports to Chinese competition in the U.S. market?

López–Córdova, Ernesto, Alejandro Micco and Danielken Molina

123234: Crime and victimization: an economic perspective

Pablo Fajnzylber, Daniel Lederman and Norman Loayza

123233: Output volatility and openness to trade: a reassessment

Eduardo Cavallo

123232: Multinationals and linkages: an empirical investigation

Laura Alfaro and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

123231: Comments

Ricardo Hausmann and Roberto Chang

123230: Globalization, migration, and development: the role of Mexican migrant remittances

Ernesto López-Cordova

123229: Comment

Augusto de la Torre

123228: Productivity and reallocation: evidence from ecuadorian firm-level data

Anson Ho, Kim Huynh and David Jacho-Chávez

123226: Growth without governance

Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

123225: Comment

María Soledad Martínez Pería

123224: The costs of sovereign default: theory and empirical evidence

Guido Sandleris

123223: Comment

Francisco H. G. Ferreira

123222: Understanding Solow residuals in Latin America

Christian Daude

123221: Singular focus or multiple objectives? What the data tell us about inflation targeting in Latin America

Adolfo Barajas, Roberto Steiner, Leonardo Villar and César Pabón

123220: Dynamic provisioning: a buffer rather than a countercyclical tool?

Santiago Fernández de Lis and Alicia García-Herrero

123219: Comment

César Calderón

123218: Challenges to promoting social inclusion of the extreme poor: evidence from a large-scale experiment in Colombia

Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Kai Barron, Pedro Carneiro and George Stoye

123217: Telecommunications reform, access regulation, and internet adoption in Latin America

Antonio Estache, Marco Manacorda and Tommaso M. Valletti

123216: Birth weight and early childhood physical health: evidence from a sample of Latin American twins

Victor Saldarriaga

123215: Privatizing highways in Latin America: fixing what went wrong

Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer and Alexander Galetovic

123214: Should a central bank transfer its profits to the treasury?

Fernando Á Lvarez-Parra, Adriana Arreaza and Eduardo Zambrano

123213: Inflation targeting in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico: performance, credibility, and the exchange rate

Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel and Alejandro Werner

123212: The economics of TransMilenio, a mass transit system for Bogota

Juan Echeverry, Ana Ibáñez, Andres Moya and Luis Carlos Hillon