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2108: La estructura de la deuda pública en México: Lecciones y perspectivas

Fausto Hernández Trillo and Alejandro Villagómez Amezcua

2049: Geografía y desarrollo económico en México

Gerardo Esquivel

2047: Bolivia: Geografía y desarrollo económico

Rolando Morales, Erwing Galoppo, Luis Carlos Jemio M., María Carmen Choque and Natasha Morales

2046: Transparencia y rendición de cuentas en los hospitales públicos de América Latina: El caso Peruano

Instituto Apoyo, Lorena Alcázar, Raúl Andrade, María Antonia Remenyi, Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos and Jaime Chang Neyra

2045: Transparencia y rendición de cuentas en los hospitales públicos de América Latina: El caso de Argentina

Ernesto Schargrodsky, Jorge Mera and Federico Weinschelbaum

2044: La violencia en Venezuela: Dimensionamiento y políticas de control

Roberto Briceño-León, Rogelio Pérez Perdomo, Juan Carlos Navarro, Patricia Márquez, Anabel Castillo, Veronica Zubillaga, Alberto Camardiel, Olga Avila, Edoardo De Armas, Claudia Malpica and Natascha González

2042: Determinantes del "spread" en las tasas de interés bancarias en el Uruguay

Adolfo Díaz Solsona and Carlo Graziani

2038: Los activos de los pobres en el Perú

Javier Escobal, Jaime Saavedra-Chanduví and Maximo Torero

2035: El capital de los pobres en Costa Rica: Acceso, utilización y rendimiento

Nancy Montiel and Juan Diego Trejos

2033: Los activos y recursos de la población pobre en Colombia

Jairo Núñez and José Leibovich

2031: Los activos y recursos de la población pobre en América Latina: El caso de Chile

Dante Contreras and Osvaldo Larrañaga

2027: La economía política de reformas institucionales en Bolivia

George Gray-Molina, Ernesto Pérez de Rada and Ernesto Yáñez

2026: La economía política de las reformas institucionales en Argentina: Los casos de la política de privatización de ENTel, la reforma de la seguridad social y la reforma laboral

Juan Carlos Torre and Pablo Gerchunoff

2025: La economía política de las reformas institucionales en el Perú: Los casos de educación, salud y pensiones

Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos, Hugo Eyzaguirre, Rosa María Palacios and Pierina Pollarolo

2022: La violencia en Colombia: Dimensionamiento y politicas de control

Mauricio Rubio

2011: La Violencia Intencional en Lima Metropolitana: Magnitud, Impacto Económico y Evaluación de Políticas de Control, 1985-1995

Hugo Eyzaguirre, César Azabache, Jaime Chang Neyra, Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos and María Antonia Remenyi

2010: Analisis de la Magnitud y Costos de la Violencia en la Ciudad de México

Rafael Lozano, Marta Hijar, Beatriz Zurita, Patricia Hernández, Leticia Avila, Maria Lilia Bravo, Teresita De Jesús Ramírez, Carlos Carrillo and Clotilde Ayala

2003: El Ahorro Privado en Venezuela: Tendencias y Determinantes

Matías Riutort, Rafael Muñoz, Juan Carlos Guevara and Luis Zambrano Sequín

1996: Los Servicios de Agua Potable en Chile: Condicionantes, Institucionalidad y Aspectos de Economía Política

Juan E. Doña and Felipe Morandé

1995: Competencia, Integración Vertical y Rendimiento en los Servicios de Salud Públicos y Privados de Chile

Ernesto Miranda and Ricardo D. Paredes Molina

1994: Las Igualas Médicas Frente a Seguro Social (Estudio de la Organización Industrial de los Servicios de Salud en la República Dominicana)

Isidoro Santana

1992: La Organización Industrial de Servicios de Educación en Venezuela

Juan Carlos Navarro and Rafael De la Cruz

1991: Organización Industrial de la Prestación de Servicios Sociales

Cristían Aedo

1990: Políticas de Desarrollo Productivo en Panamá: Auto-Descubrimiento y Fallas de Coordinación

Marcos A. Fernández

1989: Integración Financiera en Centro América: Nuevos Desafíos en el Contexto de la Crisis Internacional

Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

1988: La Formación de los Economistas en América Latina

Eduardo Lora and Hugo Ñopo

1987: Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from the American Data

Ugo Panizza

1986: Innovation Shortfalls

William Maloney and Andres Rodriguez-Clare

1985: Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries

Gustavo Crespi and Pluvia Zuniga

1983: Macroeconomic Effects of China's Fiscal Stimulus

Pietro Cova, Massimiliano Pisani and Alessandro Rebucci

1980: The Politics of Financial Development: The Role of Interest Groups and Government Capabilities

Oscar Becerra, Eduardo Cavallo and Carlos Scartascini

1978: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Risk Factors for Depression at the Micro and Macro Level

Natalia Melgar and Maximo Rossi

1977: Gender Earnings Gaps in the Caribbean: Evidence from Barbados and Jamaica

Annelle Bellony, Alejandro Hoyos Suarez and Hugo Ñopo

1975: The Role of Relative Price Volatility in the Efficiency of Investment Allocation

Eduardo Cavallo, Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo and John León-Díaz

1974: Innovation and Productivity in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector

Valeria Arza and Andrés López

1973: Innovation, R&D Investment and Productivity: Uruguayan Manufacturing Firms

Adriana Cassoni and Magdalena Ramada

1971: Globalization, Product Differentiation and Wage Inequality

Paulo Bastos and Odd Rune Straume

1970: Aid, Exports, and Growth: A Time-Series Perspective on the Dutch Disease Hypothesis

Joong Shik Kang, Alessandro Prati and Alessandro Rebucci

1969: Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America: A View and Three Case Studies

Ricardo Caballero

1967: Fiscal Policy and the Business Cycle Associated with Exchange Rate-Based Stabilizations: Evidence from Uruguay's 1978 and 1991 Programs

Ernesto Talvi

1966: Challenges of Exporting Differentiated Products to Developed Countries: The Case of SME-Dominated Sectors in a Semi-Industrialized Country

Alejandro Artopoulos, Daniel Friel and Juan Hallak

1965: Revisiting Overborrowing and Its Policy Implications

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

1964: Traditional Excluding Forces: A Review of the Quantitative Literature on the Economic Situation of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and People Living with Disability

Laura Ripani, Nestor Gandelman and Hugo Ñopo

1962: Social Exclusion and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Heather Berkman

1961: The Institutional Determinants of Political Transactions

Carlos Scartascini

1960: Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?

Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo

1959: An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups

Hugo Ñopo

1958: Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001

Jose Galdo, Jaime Saavedra and Alberto Chong

1957: Privatized Firms, Rule of Law and Labor Outcomes in Emerging Markets

Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Alberto Chong

1955: Debt Sustainability under Catastrophic Risk: The Case for Government Budget Insurance

Eduardo Cavallo, Patricio Valenzuela and Eduardo Borensztein

1954: On the Determinants of International Currency Choice: Will the Euro Dominate the World?

Matteo Bobba, Andrew Powell and Giuseppe Della Corte

1953: The Determinants of Corporate Risk in Emerging Markets: An Option-Adjusted Spread Analysis

Eduardo Cavallo and Patricio Valenzuela

1951: Becoming an Entrepreneur

Patricio Valenzuela and Hugo Ñopo

1949: Procyclicality or Reverse Causality?

Ugo Panizza and Dany Jaimovich

1948: Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises in Theory and Practice

Daniel Cohen and Sébastien Villemot

1947: Monetary Policy Challenges in Emerging Markets: Sudden Stop, Liability Dollarization, and Lender of Last Resort

Guillermo Calvo

1946: Does It Matter How People Speak?

Alberto Chong

1945: Trade, Gravity and Sudden Stops: On How Commercial Trade Can Increase the Stability of Capital Flows

Eduardo Cavallo

1944: Determinacy and Learnability of Monetary Policy Rules in Small Open Economies

Vicente Tuesta and Gonzalo Llosa

1943: Real Exchange Rates, Dollarization and Industrial Employment in Latin America

Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Izquierdo and José Manuel Montero

1942: Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance

César Calderón, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Alberto Chong

1939: Foreign Aid, Income Inequality, and Poverty

María Calderón, Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein

1937: A Tale of Two Tariff Commissions and One Dubious ¿Globalization Backlash?

Stephen Meardon

1935: Does Privatization Deliver?: Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru

Virgilio Galdo, Maximo Torero and Alberto Chong

1934: Loyal Lenders or Fickle Financiers: Foreign Banks in Latin America

Arturo Galindo, Alejandro Micco and Andrew Powell

1932: Creditor Protection and Credit Volatility

Arturo Galindo and Alejandro Micco

1930: Clusters and Comparative Advantage: Implications for Industrial Policy

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

1929: Coordination Failures, Clusters and Microeconomic Interventions

Andres Rodriguez-Clare

1927: Exchange Rate Policy and Inflation Targeting in Colombia

Hernando Vargas H.

1925: Targeting Inflation in a Dollarized Economy: The Peruvian Experience

Adrián Armas and Francisco Grippa

1922: Maturity Mismatch and Financial Crises: Evidence from Emerging Market Corporations

Hoyt Bleakley and Kevin Cowan

1920: Currency Mismatches, Balance-Sheet Effects and Hedging in Chilean Non-Financial Corporations

Kevin Cowan, Erwin Hansen and Luis Oscar Herrera

1918: Inequality, Institutions, and Informality

Mark Gradstein and Alberto Chong

1916: Infrastructure, Competition Regimes and Air Transport Costs: Cross Country Evidence

Alejandro Micco and Tomas Serebrisky

1912: Why Should Emerging Economies Give Up National Currencies?: A Case for "Institutions Substitution"

Enrique Mendoza

1909: Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina's Lessons

Guillermo Calvo, Alejandro Izquierdo and Ernesto Talvi

1905: Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve?

Alberto Chong

1903: Catastrophic Natural Disasters and Economic Growth

Eduardo Cavallo, Ilan Noy, Juan Pantano and Sebastian Galiani

1901: Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Orazio P. Attanasio and Miguel Székely

1898: Decomposing Fertility Differences across World Regions and over Time: Is Improved Health More Important than Women's Schooling?

Suzanne Duryea, Jere Behrman and Miguel Székely

1896: Why Do Lazy People Make More Money?: The Strange Case of the Public Sector Wage Premium

Ugo Panizza

1894: Issues in Estimating Benefits with Non-Market Methods

Kenneth E. McConnell

1892: Collective Bargaining Systems in Six Latin American Countries: Degrees of Autonomy and Decentralization: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay

Lesley D. O'Connell

1890: There's More Than One Way to Get a House: Housing Strategies in Panama

Michael Jacobs and William D. Savedoff

1887: Income Distribution and the Public-Private Mix in Health Care Provision: The Latin American Case

Daniel Maceira

1810: Innovation, R&D and Productivity in the Costa Rican ICT Sector: A Case Study

John Hewitt and Ricardo Monge-González

1808: Industrial Policies in Colombia

Guillermo Perry and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

1806: Agricultural Productivity Growth, Efficiency Change and Technical Progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carlos Ludena

1804: Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Overview of Risk

Céline Charvériat

1803: Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to "New Century, Old Disparities"

Alejandro Hoyos Suarez and Hugo Ñopo

1802: The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Alejandro Hoyos Suarez, Ximena Peña and Hugo Ñopo

1801: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Latin America: The Case of Argentina

Alejandro Bonvecchi

1718: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform: The Case of Colombia, 1986-2006

Mauricio Olivera, Mónica Pachón and Guillermo Perry

1716: Corporate Tax Stimulus and Investment in Colombia

Arturo Galindo and Marcela Meléndez Arjona

1711: Veto Players and Policy Trade-Offs: An Intertemporal Approach to Study the Effects of Political Institutions on Policy

Mariano Tommasi, Carlos Scartascini and Ernesto Stein

1708: Political Institutions, Policymaking, and Economic Policy in Latin America

Carlos Scartascini, Mariano Tommasi and Martin Ardanaz

1706: Productive Development Policies in Costa Rica: Market Failures, Government Failures, and Policy Outcomes

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

1704: The Political Economy of Fiscal Reform in Brazil: The Rationale for the Suboptimal Equilibrum

Marcus Melo, Carlos Pereira and Saulo Souza

1699: Misallocation and Productivity in Colombia's Manufacturing Industries

Adriana Camacho and Emily Conover

1696: On the Role of Productivity and Factor Accumulation in Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Christian Daude and Eduardo Fernandez-Arias