Escuela de Gobierno: Recent submissions
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State-owned enterprises: In search for a new consensus
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2022-05)The objective of this study is to identify whether there is a contemporary consensus on the role of SOEs in different countries on selected issues, through the view of experts around the globe. We conducted a survey to ... -
The role of public–private coordination: the case of sweet cherries in Argentina 2000–2020
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoEmerald, 2022-05)The paper highlights the importance of understanding the growth process of an industry and the different ways in which public and private sectors can enhance export performance. The relationship between the success of ... -
Leaning-against-the-wind intervention and the “carry-trade” view of the cost of reserves
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2022)We estimate, for a sample of emerging economies, the quasi-fiscal costs of sterilized foreign exchange interventions as the P&L of an inverse carry trade. We show that these costs can be substantial when intervention has ... -
Educational Territories and Schools that Go Global. The Case of IB Schools and the Emergence of New Territorialities
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de GobiernoTaylor & Francis Group., 2022)Over the last three decades, education privatization has become a global phenomenon with different manifestations in each country. In Argentina, it unfolds in a variety of ways, with a diversified educational offering ... -
Classifying Exchange Rate Regimes: 20 Years Later
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2022-10)Twenty years ago, in Levy-Yeyati and Sturzenegger (2001) we proposed a de facto classification of exchange rate regimes which contrasted with the –at the time, standard– de jure classifications based on self-reporting by ... -
Skills and Selection into Teaching: Evidence from Latin America
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaEscuela de Gobierno, 2021-12)This paper documents a novel stylized fact: many teachers in Latin America have very low levels of cognitive skills. This skills deficit is the result of both low levels of competencies among the population and a gap between ... -
A cascade of exclusion: administrative burdens and access to citizenship in the case of Argentina’s National Identity Document
(International Reviewof Administrative Sciences (SAGE), 2021)Administrative burdens can hinder people’s social, political and economic participation. However, most empirical studies usually tackle the issue of how they affect access to citizenship merely indirectly. This article ...