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    • Rebuilding state capacity in contemporary Latin America: The politics of taxation in Argentina and Mexico 

      Berensztein, Sergio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1995-07)
      In this paper I present the preliminary findings of ongoing research on the politics of taxation in Argentina and Mexico since 1982. In both countries, the debt crisis triggered a long, complex, and conflictive process of ...
    • El rol de los servicios de información en el desarrollo económico. La experiencia argentina 

      Rodríguez Pereyra, Ricardo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1995-07)
      Se analiza el rol cumplido por algunos servicios de información en la ciudad de Buenos Aires, dentro del marco de la reforma del Estado emprendida a partir de la Ley 23.696 y que ha marcado el rumbo del país desde comienzos ...
    • Chile - Argentina: El Proceso de Construir Confianza 

      Fuentes Saavedra, Claudio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1996-05)
      A partir de 1990 se evidenció un proceso de cambio estructural en las relaciones de Chile y Argentina producto tanto de la acción sistemática de los gobiernos, como del dinamismo alcanzado por los agentes económicos de ...
    • Recurrent hyperinflations and learning 

      Marcet, Albert; Nicolini, Juan Pablo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1996-01)
      This paper uses a model of boundedly rational learning to account for the observations of recurrent hyperinflations in the last decade. We show that, in a standard monetary model when the full rational expectations assumption ...
    • Comunitarismo y Derechos Colectivos 

      Spector, Horacio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1995-07)
      The author distinguishes metaphysical from practical communitarianism, and within the latter he sorts out three different varieties, viz value-, ethical, and techno-legal outlooks. Metaphysical communitarianism is alleged ...
    • Voting in Buenos Aires before 1912 

      Alonso, Paula (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1995-07)
      This paper analyses the nature of the electorate of the city of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century. It challenges received views on the city's political life arguing that electoral participation was growing at a fast ...
    • The Export-led growth hypothesis revisited: Theory and Evidence 

      Ahumada, Hildegart; Sanguinetti, Pablo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 1995-06)
      Exports have been often singled out as a key determinants of fast and sustainable rise in per capita income. In this paper we revisit this export-led growth hypothesis (ELGH). From an empirical point of view we study ...