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6108: Determinantes del ahorro interno en Uruguay

Nelson Noya, Fernando Lorenzo and Carlos Grau Pérez

6107: Sostenibilidad de la política fiscal en Uruguay

Michale Borchardt, Isabel Rial and Adolfo Sarmiento

6106: La sostenibilidad de la política fiscal en América Latina: El caso de Colombia

Julio Alonso, Mauricio Olivera and Israel Fainboim Yaker

6105: La sostenibilidad de la política fiscal en Venezuela

Gustavo Antonio García, Rafael Rodríguez-Balza, Luis Marcano, Ricardo Penfold and Gustavo Sánchez

6104: La Sostenibilidad de la Política Fiscal en el Perú: 1970-2005

Luis A. Arias, Elmer Cuba Bustinza and Raúl Salazar

6103: La sostenibilidad de la política fiscal en América Latina: El caso Argentino

Oscar Centrálogo, Mario Damill, Roberto Frenkel and Juan P. Jiménez

6102: La regulación económica en las concesiones de agua potable y desagües cloacales en Buenos Aires y Corrientes, Argentina

Daniel Artana, Fernando Navajas and Santiago Urbiztondo

6101: Análisis sobre el aumento del ahorro en Chile

Manuel R. Agosin, Gustavo Crespi and Leonardo S. Letelier

6100: Regulación y desempeño comparado de dos subsistemas privados de salud en el Uruguay

Gaston Labadie

6099: La Escuela Básica de la Zona Marginal de Santo Domingo (Un Estudio Comparativo de la Organización Industrial del Servicio de Educación en la República Dominicana)

Ramón Flores

6098: Wholesale Payments Systems and Financial Discipline, Efficiency, and Liquidity

David Folkerts-Landau

6097: Inward-Looking Policies, Institutions, Autocrats, and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Exploration

Luisa Zanforlin and Alberto Chong

6096: Nature, Development, and Distribution in Latin America: Evidence on the Role of Geography, Climate, and Natural Resources

Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

6095: Private External Overborrowing in Undistorted Economies: Market Failure and Optimal Policy

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Davide Lombardo

6094: Institutional Investors, Pension Reform and Emerging Securities Markets

Hans Blommestein

6093: Napoleon, Bourses, and Growth in Latin America

Ross Levine

6092: Persistent Poverty and Excess Inequality: Latin America, 1970-1995

Juan Luis Londoño and Miguel Székely

6091: Income Distribution, Factor Endowments, and Trade Openness

Antonio Spilimbergo, Juan Luis Londoño and Miguel Székely

6090: Electoral Budget Cycles in Latin America and the Caribbean: Incidence, Causes, and Political Futility

Moritz Kraemer

6089: Managing Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Volatility, Procyclicality, and Limited Creditworthiness

Michael Gavin, Ricardo Hausmann, Roberto Perotti and Ernesto Talvi

6088: Industrial Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean at the Turn of the Century

Alberto Melo

6087: Volume and Quality of Infrastructure and the Distribution of Income: An Empirical Investigation

Cesar Calderon and Alberto Chong

6086: What Makes Reforms Likely?: Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America

Eduardo Lora

6085: Empirical Determinants of Good Institutions: Do We Know Anything?

Stephane Straub

6084: Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America

Jere Behrman, Nancy Birdsall and Miguel Székely

6083: Does Child Care Pay?: Labor Force Participation and Earnings Effects of Access to Child Care in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Ruthanne Deutsch

6082: Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries

Stefano Scarpetta

6081: An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago

Andrew S. Downes

6080: Does Latin American and Caribbean Unemployment Depend on Asian Labor Standards?

Patrick Belser

6079: Decentralization and Recentralization: Lessons from the Social Sectors in Mexico and Nicaragua

Alec Ian Gershberg and Michael Jacobs

6078: How Much do Teachers Earn?

Claudia Piras and William D. Savedoff

6077: Macro Policy and Employment Problems in Latin America

Eduardo Lora and Mauricio Olivera

6076: Institutional Arrangements and Fiscal Performance: The Latin American Experience

Ernesto Stein, Ernesto Talvi and Alejandro Grisanti

6075: Financial Liberalization and Policy Challenges

Michael Dooley

6074: Regional Financial Market Integration: Learning from the European Experience

Benn Steil

6073: Entry and Exit of Banks in Latin America and the Caribbean: Public Policy Concerns and a Proposed Solution

George J. Benston

6072: Credit Union Policies and Performances in Latin America

Glenn D. Westley and Sherrill Shaffer

6071: North-South Customs Unions and International Capital Mobility

Eduardo Fernandez-Arias and Mark Spiegel

6069: Why Low Inequality Spurs Growth: Savings and Investment by the Poor

Nancy Birdsall, Thomas C. Pinckney and Richard H. Sabot

6068: Building Stability in Latin American Financial Markets

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Steven R. Weisbrod

6067: The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context

Michael Gavin and Ricardo Hausmann

6066: Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the Eighties

Ricardo Hausmann

6065: Capital Requirements for Latin American Banks in Relation to their Market Risks: The Relevance of the Basle 1996 Amendment to Latin America

Andrew Powell and Veronica Balzarotti

6064: Trade and Employment: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean

Gustavo Márquez and Carmen Pages

6051: The Impact of Public Expenditures in Education, Health, and Infrastructure on Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Peru

Jorge A. Mesones, Jorge R. Peschiera Cassinelli and Jorge F. Baca Campodónico

4785: Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking

Veronica Frisancho, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin and Cemile Yavas

4782: Long-Term Effect of Climate Change on Health: Evidence from Heat Waves in Mexico

Jorge Agüero

4779: Knowledge Spillovers of Innovation Policy through Labor Mobility: An Impact Evaluation of the FONTAR Program in Argentina

Rodolfo Stucchi, Sofía Rojo, Alessandro Maffioli and Victoria Castillo

4776: The Impact of Agricultural Extension for Improved Management Practices: An Evaluation of the Uruguayan Livestock Program

Conner Mullally and Alessandro Maffioli

4774: Wealth Gradients in Early Childhood Cognitive Development in Five Latin American Countries

Renos Vakis, Christina Paxson, Daniela Marshall, Karen Macours, Florencia Lopez Boo, David Bravo, Raquel Bernal, Rodrigo Azuero, M. Caridad Araujo, Jere Behrman and Norbert Schady

4771: Industrial Clusters and Economic Performance in Brazil

Jose Claudio Pires, Túlio Cravo, Simon Lodato and Caio Piza

4766: On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Nicolas Ajzenman, Sebastian Galiani and Enrique Seira Bejarano

4765: The Effects of Shared School Technology Access on Students' Digital Skills in Peru

Germán Bet, Julian Cristia and Pablo Ibarraran

4762: Re-estimating the Gender Gap in Colombian Academic Performance

Juan Munoz-Morales

4758: Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru

Pablo Garofalo, Alejo Czerwonko and Julian Cristia

4756: The Effects of Air Pollution on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Chile

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio A. Vela

4702: Benchmarking Container Port Technical Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean

Javier Morales Sarriera, Tomas Serebrisky, Gonzalo Araya, Cecilia Briceño-Garmendia and Jordan Schwartz

4699: Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee

Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Álvarez and Ricardo Monge-González

4698: Tax Compliance and Enforcement in the Pampas: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Lucio Castro and Carlos Scartascini

4693: Tax Reforms in Latin America in an Era of Democracy

Carlos Scartascini

4690: Bank Linkages and International Trade

Galina Hale, Christopher Candelaria, Julian Caballero and Sergey Borisov

4688: Measuring the Political Economy of Tax Lawmaking: A Methodology and Evidence from Argentina

Javier Alvaredo, Alejandro Bonvecchi, Ernesto Calvo, Maximiliano Castillo Carrillo, Elssy Bonilla-Castro and Juan C. Gómez Sabaini

4685: Are Environmentally Related Taxes Effective?

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio A. Vela

4682: Productive Development Policies and Innovation Spillovers through Labor Force Mobility: The Case of the Brazilian Innovation Support System

Alessandro Maffioli and Rodolfo Stucchi

4679: Las consecuencias económicas de la violencia del narcotráfico en México

Gustavo Robles, Gabriela Calderon and Beatriz Magaloni

4677: Preschool Education in Brazil: Does Public Supply Crowd Out Private Enrollment?

Paulo Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

4674: Institutions for Effective Business-Government Collaboration: Micro Mechanisms and Macro Politics in Latin America

Ben Ross Schneider

4671: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?: School Enrollment, Graduation, and Dropout Rates in Latin America

Marina Bassi, Matias Busso and Juan Munoz-Morales

4668: Optimal Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change in Small Environmental Economies

Sebastian Miller, Sebastian Galiani and Omar Chisari

4665: Intensity-Based Permit Quotas and the Business Cycle: Does Flexibility Pay Off?

Kwok Ping Tsang, Gregory S. Amacher and Olli-Pekka Kuuselaa

4663: Politics Under the Weather: Droughts, Parties and Electoral Outcomes

Sebastian Miller and Paulo Bastos

4660: Does Birth Underregistration Reduce Childhood Immunization?: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Rene Osorio Rivas, Steve Brito and Ana Corbacho

4656: Terms of Trade and Fiscal Sustainability when the Sovereign Exploits a Natural Resource

Marcelo P. Oviedo and Leandro Andrian

4653: Paving the Road to Export: Assessing the Trade Impacts of Road Quality

Juan Blyde

4650: Shaky Roads and Trembling Exports: Assessing the Trade Effects of Domestic Infrastructure Using a Natural Experiment

Christian Volpe Martincus and Juan Blyde

4648: Normative Fiscal Policy and Growth: Some Quantitative Implications for the Chilean Economy

Emilio Espino and Martín González Rozada

4647: Risk Management with Thinly Traded Securities: Methodology and Implementation

Gonzalo Cortazar, Diether Beuermann and Alejandro Bernales

4645: Information and Communication Technology, Agricultural Profitability, and Child Labor in Rural Peru

Diether Beuermann

4641: Government Debt and Economic Growth

Cesar Calderon and Rodrigo Fuentes

4638: A Cycle-Adjusted Fiscal Rule for Sustainable and More Equitable Growth in Argentina

Jimena Zúñiga, Marcelo Capello, Inés Butler and Néstor Grión

4635: Why don't All Exporters Benefit from Free Trade Agreements?: Estimating Utilization Costs

Alfie Ulloa and Rodrigo Wagner

4633: Calling Their Bluff: Expressed and Revealed Preferences of Top College Graduates Entering Teaching in Argentina

Alejandro Ganimian, Mariana Alfonso and Ana Santiago

4630: Competencia en el mercado bancario del crédito en Chile

Bernardita Piedrabuena

4629: Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?

Sebastian Miller and Mauricio A. Vela

4627: Rule-of-Thumb Consumers, Nominal Rigidities and the Design of Interest Rate Rules

Sergio Ocampo

4626: Ideology and Taxation in Latin America

Lorena Caro and Ernesto Stein

4624: Capital Flows: Issues and Policies

Peter Montiel

4622: The Unemployment Subsidy Program in Colombia: An Assessment

Jorge Andrés Tamayo, Jairo Núñez and Carlos Medina

4620: Decentralization and Accountability: The Curse of Local Underdevelopment

Fabiana Machado

4619: Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru

Cristhian Seminario, Edgar Salgado Chavez and Eduardo Moron

4617: Crime, Punishment, and Schooling Decisions: Evidence from Colombian Adolescents

David Zarruk, Catherine Rodriguez and Ana Ibáñez

4616: The Impact of the Sense of Security from Crime on Residential Property Values in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas

Rosa M. R. Massena, Kaizô I. BeltraÞo and David M. Vetter

4613: The Effect of Violence on Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Rural Brazil

Marco Manacorda and Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

4612: Are We All Playing the Same Game?: The Economic Effects of Constitutions Depend on the Degree of Institutionalization

Mariano Tommasi, Carlos Scartascini and German Caruso

4609: Causal Estimates of the Intangible Costs of Violence against Women in Latin America and the Caribbean

Jorge Agüero

4608: The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Eduardo Lora

4606: A New Taxonomy of Sudden Stops: Which Sudden Stops Should Countries Be Most Concerned About?

Pilar Tavella, Mathieu Pedemonte, Andrew Powell and Eduardo Cavallo

4604: The Economic Effects of Constitutions: Do Budget Institutions Make Forms of Government More Alike?

Carlos Scartascini and Martin Ardanaz

4602: Can Institutions Cure Clientelism?: Assessing the Impact of the Australian Ballot in Brazil

Daniel Gingerich

4597: Theory and Evidence on Teacher Policies in Developed and Developing Countries

Emiliana Vegas and Alejandro Ganimian