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4213: Does Easing Monetary Policy Increase Financial Instability?

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi and Alessandro Rebucci

4211: Management for Social Development: An Integrated Approach to the Management of Social Policies and Programs

Karen Marie Mokate and José Jorge Saavedra

4209: An Updated Assessment of the Trade and Poverty Nexus in Latin America

Paolo Giordano and Kun Li

4207: Los determinantes de la percepción de inseguridad frente al delito en México

Carlos J. Vilalta Perdomo

4205: Gender Gaps in Education and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States: The Impact of Employers` Prejudice

Luca Flabbi and Mauricio Tejada

4204: Home Computers and Child Outcomes: Short-Term Impacts from a Randomized Experiment in Peru

Diether Beuermann, Julian Cristia, Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo, Santiago Cueto and Ofer Malamud

4203: Legislative Effort and Career Paths in the Argentine Congress

Martín Rossi and Mariano Tommasi

4202: Optimal Policy for Macro-Financial Stability

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

4201: Spillover Effects in Healthcare Programs: Evidence on Social Norms and Information Sharing

Ciro Avitabile

4198: Banking Crises and Financial Integration

Julian Caballero

4197: Access to Preprimary Education and Progression in Primary School: Evidence from Rural Guatemala

Paulo Bastos, Nicolas Bottan and Julian Cristia

4195: On the Institutionalization of Congress(es) in Latin America and Beyond

Valeria Palanza, Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

4191: Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Latin American and Caribbean Countries: The Case of Colombia

Fabio Sanchez Torres, Irina España Eljaiek and Jannet Zenteno

4189: International Crises and Policy Responses in the Southern Cone

Eduardo Borensztein, Liliana Castilleja Vargas, Daniel Hernaiz and Alejandro Rasteletti

4188: ObservaçoÞes sobre a mudança tecnológica no setor de máquinas ferramentas do Brasil

Hélio Nogueira da Cruz, Marcos Eugênio da Silva and Lars Ake Gunnar Hugerth

4186: InovaçaÞo tecnológica no setor de máquinas ferramentas Brasileiro: Um estudo de caso

Marcos Eugênio da Silva

4184: EvoluçaÞo tecnológica no setor de máquinas de processar cereais: Um estudo de caso

Hélio Nogueira da Cruz

4183: EvoluçaÞo tecnológica em uma firma de processo produtivo continuo no setor metal-mecânico brasileiro

Hélio Nogueira da Cruz and Marcos Eugênio da Silva

4182: The Use and Production of Numerically Controlled Machine Tools in Argentina

Staffan Jacobsson

4181: Technical Change and Technology Policy: The Case of Numerically Controlled Lathes in Argentina

Staffan Jacobsson

4179: Steelplant Technological Development in Latin America: A Comparative Study of the Selection and Upgrading of Technology in Plants in Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru

Philip Maxwell

4178: Programa de Investigaciones sobre Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico en América Latina: Monografía de Trabajo: No. 40: Agosto, 1981: Productividad, escala y aprendizaje en una planta Argentina de motores

Julio Berlinski

4177: Innovaciones en productos y aprendizaje: El caso de una planta argentina de implementos agrícolas

Julio Berlinski

4176: Programa de Investigaciones sobre Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico en América Latina: Monografía de Trabajo: No. 43: Enero, 1982: Innovaciones en productos y aprendizaje: El caso de una planta Argentina de implementos agrícolas

Julio Berlinski

4175: Innovaciones en el proceso y aprendizaje en una planta Argentina de fundición

Julio Berlinski

4174: Innovaciones en el proceso y aprendizaje: El caso de una planta argentina de motores

Julio Berlinski

4173: La industria de máquinas-herramientas en Colombia: Estudio de una firma productora de tornos y otras máquinas para trabajar metales

Diego Sandoval Peralta and Liliana Jaramillo

4172: La industria de astilleros en Colombia: Un estudio de caso de la empresa CONASTIL

Diego Sandoval Peralta and Liliana Jaramillo

4171: Etapas históricas y conductas tecnológicas en una planta Argentina de máquinas herramienta

Angel Castaño, Jorge Katz and Fernando Navajas

4170: Un estudio sobre el cambio tecnológico de una empresa Mexicana productora de maquinaria para molinos

Alfonso Mercado García and Lourdes Lombó

4169: Domestic Technology Generation in LDCs: A Review of Research Findings

Jorge Katz

4167: Capacity-Stretching Technical Change: Some Empirical and Theoretical Aspects

Morris Teubal and Philip Maxwell

4164: Programa de Investigaciones sobre Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico en América Latina: Monografía de Trabajo: No. 48: Junio, 1982: Cambios en la información técnica y aprendizaje en una planta Argentina de motores

Julio Berlinski

4163: El cambio tecnológico en una empresa Mexicana productora de máquinas para el vidrio y el plástico

Alfonso Mercado García and Patricia Toledo

4161: Cambio tecnológico en tres plantas metalmecánicas mexicanas

Alfonso Mercado García, Aída Mateos, Jesús Aristy, Antonio Juárez and Patricia Toledo

4157: Programa de Investigaciones sobre Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico en América Latina: Monografía de Trabajo: No. 52: Julio, 1982: Cambio tecnológico en la industria Venezolana de maquinaria agrícola: Estudios de caso

José Manuel Martínez, Pablo Levin, Mauricio Turkieh and Arnoldo Pirela

4153: Cambio tecnológico en la industria metalmecánica latinoamericana: Resultados de un programa de estudios de casos

Jorge Katz

4149: Cambio tecnológico en la firma Distral S.A. fabricante de calderas y equipos de presión

Manuel Ramírez Gómez and José Leibovich

4146: Public Management and Transparency Network: Cross-Country Comparisons of Public Employment and Pay of 26 Latin American and Caribbean Countries

J. Mark Payne and Ingrid Carlson

4145: Basic Issues Emerging from Recent Research on Technological Behaviour of Selected Latin American Metalworking Plants

Julio Berlinski, Hélio Nogueira da Cruz, Diego Sandoval Peralta and Mauricio Turkieh

4141: Análisis del desarrollo industrial de forjas de Colombia: 1961-1981

Diego Sandoval Peralta, Mauricio Mick, Lía Guterman and Liliana Jaramillo

4139: Análisis de la trayectoria de una planta automotriz en Colombia: El caso de SOFASA

Diego Sandoval Peralta, Mauricio Mick and Lía Guterman

4136: Conditional Cash Transfers, Female Bargaining Power and Parental Labour Supply

Rafael Novella, Laura Ripani, Guillermo Cruces and María Laura Alzúa

4134: El impacto de los servicios financieros y de capacitación en las MiPyME de Costa Rica

Ricardo Monge-González and Juan Antonio Rodríguez-Álvarez

4130: Automatic Stabilization and Fiscal Policy: Some Quantitative Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Emilio Espino and Martín González Rozada

4129: Interest Rates and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Role of Financial Frictions

Andrés Fernández Martin and Adam Gulan

4125: Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Mexico

Luis Cesar Castañeda and Juan E. Pardinas

4094: Labor Market Impacts of Non-Contributory Pensions: The Case of Argentina's Moratorium

Mariano Bosch and Jarret Guajardo

4092: Workable Environmentally Related Energy Taxes

Fernando Navajas, Monica Panadeiros and Oscar Natale

4091: Mobilizing Resources for Supporting Environmental Activities in Developing Countries: The Case of the GEF Trust Fund

Sebastian Miller and Bok-Keun Yu

4090: Incentive Schemes in Export and Investment Promotions

Leandro Arozamena and Federico Weinschelbaum

4089: Partial Credit Guarantees and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Colombian National Guarantee Fund

Irani Arraiz, Marcela Meléndez Arjona and Rodolfo Stucchi

4087: The Pedagogy of Science and Environment: Experimental Evidence from Peru

Diether Beuermann, Emma Naslund-Hadley, Inder Ruprah and Jennelle Thompson

4086: Las reformas estructurales en América Latina: Qué se ha reformado y cómo medirlo (Versión actualizada)

Eduardo Lora

4085: Housing Cycles and Macroeconomic Fluctuations: A Global Perspective

Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi

4084: Signaling Creditworthiness in Peruvian Microfinance Markets: The Role of Information Sharing

Veronica Frisancho

4083: Inserción internacional en América Central y la República Dominica: Diagnóstico y desafíos

Sebastián Auguste and Ernesto H. Stein

4082: Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and Social Mobility through Entrepreneurship in Colombia

Paula Mejia and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

4078: Employment and Taxes in Latin America: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Payroll, Corporate Income and Value-Added Taxes on Labor Outcomes

Eduardo Lora and Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez

4075: To Redistribute or Not: A Politician`s Dilemma

Fabiana Machado

4073: Capital Inflow Surges in Emerging Economies: How Worried Should LAC Be?

Andrew Powell and Pilar Tavella

4070: Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantage Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design

Pablo Ibarrarán, Laura Ripani, Bibiana Taboada, Juan Miguel Villa and Brígida García

4067: Inter-Firm Linkages and Finance in Value Chains

Lizbeth Navas-Alemán, Carlo Pietrobelli and Marco Kamiya

4064: The Impact of the Business Cycle on Elasticities of Tax Revenue in Latin America

Roberto Machado and José Zuloeta

4062: The Effects of Oil and Mineral Taxation on Non-commodity Fiscal Revenues

Guillermo Perry and Sebastián Bustos

4060: Birth Registration and the Impact on Educational Attainment

Ana Corbacho, Steve Brito and Rene Osorio Rivas

4058: Crime and Erosion of Trust: Evidence for Latin America

Ana Corbacho, Julia Philipp and Mauricio Ruiz-Vega

4056: Foreign Aid in the Aftermath of Large Natural Disasters

Oscar Becerra, Eduardo Cavallo and Ilan Noy

4054: Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Values, and Public Policy in Argentina

José Anchorena and Lucas Ronconi

4052: Sub-national Revenue Mobilization in Latin America and Caribbean Countries: The Case of Venezuela

Germán Ríos, Federico Ortega and J. Sebastián Scrofina

4050: Effectiveness of Weather Derivatives as a Cross-Hedging Instrument against Climate Change: The Cases of Reservoir Water Allocation Management in Guanajuato, Mexico and Lambayeque, Peru

Miriam Juarez and Leonardo Sanchez-Aragon

4047: (In)Formal and (Un)Productive: The Productivity Costs of Excessive Informality in Mexico

Matias Busso, Maria Victoria Fazio and Santiago Levy Algazi

4045: Manna from Heaven: The Impact of Nonrenewable Resource Revenues on Other Revenues of Resource Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Rolando Ossowski and Alberto Gonzáles-Castillo

4041: Latin American Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and their Firms: A Regional View and International Comparison

Hugo Kantis, Juan Federico and Luis A. Trajtenberg

4038: Cash Transfers and Anemia Among Women of Reproductive Age

Norbert Schady

4037: Middle-Class Entrepreneurship and the Effect of Social Capital

Xavier Ordeñana and Elizabeth Arteaga

4035: Contracting Institutions and the Insertion of LAC in International Production Networks

Juan Blyde

4033: Entrepreneurship, Economic Mobility, and Entrepreneurial Propensity: A Regional View Based on the Analysis of Selected Latin American Countries

Hugo Kantis, Juan Federico and Luis A. Trajtenberg

4032: Intergenerational Mobility, Middle Sectors and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay

Nestor Gandelman and Virginia Robano

4030: Intergenerational Mobility and Income Effects for Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico

Viviana Vélez-Grajales and Roberto Vélez-Grajales

4029: Intra-generational Social Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Uruguay

Daniel Bukstein and Nestor Gandelman

4027: Mobility and Entrepreneurship in Ecuador: A Pseudo-Panel Approach

Xavier Ordeñana and Ramón Villa

4026: Unemployment Insurance and Search Effort in Chile

Cristóbal Huneeus, Silvia Leiva and Alejandro Micco

3977: The Politics of Federalism in Argentina: Implications for Governance and Accountability

Martin Ardanaz, Marcelo Leiras and Mariano Tommasi

3976: A Dynamic Analysis of Household Decision-Making in Urban Colombia, 1976-1998: Changes in Household Structure, Human Capital and its Returns, and Female Labor Force Participation

Fabio Sanchez Torres and Jairo Núñez

3975: Ecuador: Fiscal Stabilization Funds and Prospects

Simon Cueva

3974: Credit, Labor Informality and Firm Performance in Colombia

Lorena Caro, Arturo Galindo and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

3973: Elementos de sostenibilidad fiscal en países ricos en hidrocarburos: El caso de Bolivia

Omar Zambrano and Gabriela Aguilera-Lizarazu

3972: Brechas de infraestructura, crecimiento y desigualdad en los países andinos

Omar Zambrano and Gabriela Aguilera-Lizarazu

3971: Do Surges in International Capital Inflows Influence the Likelihood of Banking Crises?: Cross-Country Evidence on Bonanzas in Capital Inflows and Bonanza-Boom-Bust Cycles

Julian Caballero

3970: Institucionalización de las instituciones políticas y su impacto sobre las políticas públicas

Carlos Scartascini and Mariano Tommasi

3969: Financial Dependence, Formal Credit and Firm Informality: Evidence from Peruvian Household Data

Eduardo Moron, Edgar Salgado and Cristhian Seminario

3968: Productive Development Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Mexico

Verónica Baz, Maria Cristina Capelo, Rodrigo Centeno and Ricardo Estrada

3967: Financial Regulation in the English-Speaking Caribbean: Is it Helping or Hindering Microfinance?

Robert C. Vogel and Gerald Schulz

3966: Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean

Peter Rogers

3965: Housing Finance in Chile: Instruments, Actors, and Policies

Alejandro Micco, Eric Parrado, Bernardita Piedrabuena and Alessandro Rebucci

3964: The Impact of Bank Credit on Employment Formality in Uruguay

Nestor Gandelman and Alejandro Rasteletti

3963: Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals' Predispositions towards Redistributive Schemes

Fabiana Machado

3962: Turismo y desarrollo en México

Carmen Altés

3961: A Short-Term Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of Better-Quality Daycare Centers

Ricardo Barros, Mirela de Carvalho, Samuel Franco, Rosane Mendonça and Andrezza Rosalém