2021: Recent submissions

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    • Pandemic divergence: A short note on COVID-19 and global income inequality 

      Filippini, Federico; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-12)
      In this paper we provide an initial assessment of the economic losses related to the COVID pandemic in two ways: as output contractions in 2020-2021, and as growth revisions (the estimated cumulative output loss in 2020-2030 ...

    • A Balance-Sheet Approach to Fiscal Sustainability 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Sturzenegger, Federico (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-03)
      Recent empirical research on emerging markets debt, currency crises and fiscal sustainability has placed a significant focus on the role of currency mismatches with the emphasis placed on the currency composition of explicit ...

    • En busca del nicho apropiado. Lógicas de acción de las escuelas y el surgimiento de un escenario institucional diversificado 

      Gottau, Verónica; Mayer, Liliana (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoCentro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE), 2021-02)
      Este trabajo parte de la hipótesis de que las escuelas primarias y los colegios secundarios despliegan diferentes estrategias para determinar su perfil y proyecto institucional para definir los públicos que desean albergar. ...

    • A new Labor Conflict Index for Argentina: Preliminary Findings 

      Judzik, Darío; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Montané, Martín (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-02)
      Labor conflict has been broadly neglected by economists as a sociological issue with limited impact. In this paper, we present a new Labor Conflict Index based on the application of text mining techniques to media data, ...

    • Financial dollarization and de-dollarization in the new millennium 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-01)
      Dollarization, in its many variants, is crucial to understanding Latin American macroeconomics, as well as that of many developing countries. This paper builds a new updated dataset on dollarization, reviews its evolution ...

    • Lockdown fatigue: The diminishing effects of quarantines on the spread of COVID-19 

      Goldstein, Patricio; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Sartorio, Lucas (Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021)
      Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) have been for most countries the key policy instrument utilized to contain the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this article, we conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of ...