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123211: Regional integration: what is in it for CARICOM?

Mauricio Moreira and Eduardo Mendoza

123210: The political economy of oil production in Latin America

Osmel Manzano Mazzali and Francisco Monaldi

123209: Cost reductions, cost padding, and stock market prices: the Chilean experience with price-cap regulation

Rafael Di Tella and Alexander Dyck

123208: Deceleration in female labor force participation in Latin America

Leonardo Gasparini and Mariana Marchionni

123207: Comments

Francisco Rodríguez and Ronald Fischer

123206: Comments

François Bourguignon and Andrés Rodríguez-Clare

123205: Comments

Miguel Urquiola and Jaime Saavedra

123204: The politics of legal reform

Florencio López-de-Silanes

123203: Editor's summary

Andres Velasco

123202: Comments

Alexander Galetovic and Bernardo Mueller

123201: Comments

Raphael Bergoeing and Nouriel Roubini

123200: Strategic debt and unified governments: evidence from Latin American presidential transitions

Pablo Garofalo

123199: Comments

Miguel Urquiola and Daron Acemoglu

123198: Editors' summary

Raquel Bernal, Ugo Panizza, Roberto Rigobón and Rodrigo Soares

123197: Sovereign credit ratings in Latin America and the Caribbean: history and impact on bond spreads

Inés Bustillo, Daniel Perrotti and Helvia Velloso

123196: Comment

Oscar Landerretche

123195: Comments

Sebastian Galiani and André Souza

123194: Reforming pensions: lessons from economic theory and some policy directions

Nicholas Barr and Peter Diamond

123193: Reforming bank capital requirements: implications of Basel II for Latin American countries

Giovanni Majnoni and Andrew Powell

123192: Comments

Daniel Mejía and Daniel E. Ortega

123191: Comment

Guillermo Cruces

123190: Comments

Enrica Detragiache and Andrea Repetto

123189: Resource windfalls and public sector employment: evidence from municipalities in Chile

Felipe Larraín and Oscar Perelló

123188: Comments

Luis Cespedes and Munir A. Jalil

123187: Financial liberalization: does it pay to join the party?

Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Micco and Guillermo Ordoñez

123186: Comments

Ximena Peña and Luis Lopez-Calva

123185: Pension income indexation: a mean-variance approach

Rodrigo Lluberas

123184: Comments

Omar Arias and Juliano Assunção

123183: Inflation targeting in Latin America: toward a monetary union?

Marc Hofstetter

123182: Debt sustainability and procyclical fiscal policies in Latin America

Enrique Alberola Ila and José Manuel Montero

123181: Editor's summary

Andrés Velasco

123180: Comment

Carlos Winograd

123179: Comments

María Soledad Martínez Pería and Enrique Cárdenas

123178: Comment

Cristina Terra

123177: Rules of origin in preferential trading arrangements: is all well with the spaghetti bowl in the Americas?

Antoni Estevadeordal and Kati Suominen

123176: Comments

Andrew W. Horowitz and Daniel Lederman

123175: Comments

Patricia Correa and Philip Brock

123174: What you don’t know CAN hurt you — or at least mislead you: family behaviors, unobserved heterogeneities, and the determinants and impacts of human resources over the life cycle

Jere Behrman

123173: Contagion, spillover, and interdependence

Roberto Rigobón

123172: NAFTA and convergence in North America: high expectations, big events, little time

William Easterly, Norbert Fiess and Daniel Lederman

123171: On the consequences of sudden stops

Pablo E. Guidotti, Federico Sturzenegger and Agustín Villar

123170: Assessing the effect of payroll taxes on formal employment: the case of the 2012 tax reform in Colombia

Leonardo Morales and Carlos Medina

123169: Toward a “new” inflation-targeting framework: the case of Uruguay

Matías Escudero, Martin Gonzalez-Rozada and Martin Sola

123168: Access to credit and the size of the formal sector

D’Erasmo, Pablo N.

123167: The relationship between national saving and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Eduardo Cavallo and Mathieu Pedemonte

123166: Editors’ summary

Claudio Raddatz and Roberto Chang

123165: Central bank liquidity management and “unconventional” monetary policies

Javier García-Cicco and Enrique Kawamura

123164: The Latin American development problem: an interpretation

Diego Restuccia

123163: Enrollment, graduation, and dropout rates in Latin America: is the glass half empty or half full?

Marina Bassi, Matias Busso and Juan Munoz-Morales

123162: Effects of nutrition promotion on child growth in El Alto, Bolivia: results from a geographical discontinuity design

Gaston Gertner, Julia Johannsen and Sebastian Martinez

123161: Competition in the Chilean banking sector: a cross-country comparison

Meral Karasulu

123160: What 's the big idea? The third generation of policies for economic growth

David L. Lindauer and Lant Pritchett

123159: Conditional cash transfers and their impact on child work and schooling: evidence from the PROGRESA program in Mexico

Emmanuel Skoufias and Susan Parker

123158: Meeting the millennium development goals in Brazil: can microeconomic simulations help?

Francisco Ferreira and Phillippe George Leite

123157: Macroeconomic volatility in Latin America: a conceptual framework and three case studies

Ricardo Caballero

123156: On the credibility of inflation-targeting regimes in Latin America

Rodrigo Mariscal, Andrew Powell and Pilar Tavella

123155: Latin American middle classes: the distance between perception and reality

Eduardo Lora and Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez

123154: Privatization in Latin America: what does the evidence say?

Alberto Chong and Florencio López-De-Silanes

123153: Chilean pension reform: coverage facts and policy alternatives

Solange Berstein, Guillermo Larraín and Francisco Pino

123152: Growth and adjustment in East Asia and Latin America

José De Gregorio and Jong-Wha Lee

123151: Factor endowments, inequality, and paths of development among new world economies

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

123150: I sell my vote, and so what? Incidence, social bias, and correlates of clientelism in Colombia

Leopoldo Fergusson, Carlos Molina and Juan Riano

123149: Comment

Arturo Galindo

123148: A comparison of product price targeting and other monetary anchor options for commodity exporters in Latin America

Jeffrey Frankel

123147: Adapting natural resource enterprises under global warming in South America: a mixed logit analysis

S. Niggol Seo

123146: Free or fair elections? The introduction of electronic voting in Brazil

Rodrigo Schneider

123145: The impact of telecommunications privatization in Peru on the welfare of urban consumers

Maximo Torero, Enrique Schroth and Alberto Pasco-Font

123144: Conditional transfers, labor supply, and poverty: microsimulating oportunidades

Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Rosangela Bando and Fernanda Arce

123143: Comments

Gerardo Esquivel and Ernesto Schargrodsky

123142: Editor's summary

Andrés Velasco

123141: Editor's summary

Andrés Velasco

123140: Comments

Ernesto Stein and Mauricio Cárdenas

123139: Two become one: improving the targeting of conditional cash transfers with a predictive model of school dropout

Cristian Crespo

123138: Comments

Nancy Birdsall and Sebastian Galiani

123137: Comments

Miguel Urquiola and Omar Arias

123136: Did the Basel Accord cause a credit slowdown in Latin America?

Adolfo Barajas, Ralph Chami and Thomas F. Cosimano

123135: Heterogeneous effects of Chinese import competition on Chilean manufacturing plants

Andrés César and Guillermo Falcone

123134: Effects of foreign exchange intervention under public information: the Chilean case

Matias Tapia and Andrea Tokman

123133: The role of the gender wage gap in overall wage inequality: a quantitative exercise

Marco A. Badilla Maroto

123132: Editor's summary

Andres Velasco

123131: Comments

Eduardo Cavallo

123130: Comments

Alejandra Cox Edwards and Pablo Guidotti

123129: Editors' summary

Eduardo Engel, Francisco Ferreira and Roberto Rigobon

123128: Cash, conditions, and child development: experimental evidence from a cash transfer program in Honduras

Florencia Lopez Boo and John Creamer

123127: The role of global risk aversion in explaining sovereign spreads

Alicia García-Herrero and Alvaro Ortiz

123126: Comments

Roberto Rigobon and Andrew Karolyi

123125: Comments

Reynaldo Fernandes and Francisco Gallego

123124: Comments

Dani Rodrik and R. S. Eckaus

123122: Is violence against union members in Colombia systematic and targeted?

Daniel Mejía and María José Uribe

123121: Comment

Federico Sturzenegger

123120: Do gender disparities exist despite a negative gender earnings gap?

Jose Caraballo-Cueto and Eileen Segarra-Alméstica

123119: Comments

Lucas Ronconi and Miguel Urquiola

123118: Does drug illegality beget violence? Evidence from the crack-cocaine wave in São Paulo

João M. P. De Mello

123117: Editors' summary

Eduardo Engel, Francisco Ferreira and Roberto Rigobon

123116: Comments

Eduardo Levy Yeyati and Eduardo Morón

123115: Electoral campaign financing: the role of public contributions and party ideology

Adriana Cuoco Portugal and Maurício Bugarin

123114: Comment

Diego Restuccia

123113: Can a small social pension promote labor force participation? Evidence from the Colombia mayor program

Tobias Pfutze and Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán

123112: Comments

Thad Dunning and Cameron A. Shelton

123111: Comments

Osmel Manzano Mazzali and Andrew Warner