In recent years, Latin American banking sectors have experienced an accelerated process of concentration and foreign penetration that has prompted diverse views regarding its implications for the competitive behavior of ...

The rise and fall of Argentina’s currency board illustrates the extent to which the advantages of hard pegs have been overstated. The currency board did provide nominal stability and boosted financial intermediation, at ...

In the late currency board years, Argentina faced a real exchange rate adjustment through price deflation amidst growing devaluation expectations. Using a firm-level panel database to analyze the incidence of these factors ...

Parsing a mental operation into components, characterizing the parallel or serial nature of this flow, and understanding what each process ultimately contributes to response time are fundamental questions in cognitive ...

Algunos de los sistemas jurídicos latinoamericanos que criminalizan el aborto exigen que los/las médicos/as informen a las autoridades competentes cuando existan indicios de que su paciente abortó. Este tipo de normas ...

In this paper, we examine how the business and interest rate cycles in developed countries affects FDI to developing countries. After aggregating flows into three big source areas (the U.S., Europe and Japan), we find FDI ...

Diciembre de 2001 en Argentina fue emblemático. Una crisis económica y social, enmascarada por la llamada Convertibilidad, hizo eclosión. La cesación de pagos, interna y a nivel internacional; la devaluación y la ...

This paper then attempts to show how a PCR, in this case from Argentina, can help to set capital and provisioning rules. In order to so this, we employ an econometric credit scoring model on the PCR data - an ordered probit ...

En este trabajo se expondrán argumentos para defender la desobediencia civil indirecta a través de la causa de justificación "estado de necesidad".

La promesa enunciada en el editorial del anterior número de Block se cumple parcialmente en el que ahora llega al lector. Nos concentramos, es cierto, en Argentina, y algunos de los trabajos se refieren a los que en ...