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Riding the roller coaster: fiscal policies of nonrenewable resource exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the last decade the prices of nonrenewable resources which constitute a critical source of fiscal revenue in many Latin American and Caribbean countries recorded sharp swings correlated with economic growth developments in the world and in the region. Similar episodes in the past led to boom and ...
Terms of trade shocks and investment in commodity-exporting economies
Commodity prices have experienced significant swings over the past two decades. Real commodity prices have on average more than doubled in the last decade compared to the previous one while the prices of some commodities such as copper and other industrial metals have more than tripled in real terms. ...
Goverment size misallocation and the resource curse
Structural transformation is a reallocation of labor across sectors. In this paper I investigate the impact of structural transformation in an open economy on sectoral and aggregate productivity with a particular focus on the role of government. While there are potentially many sources of structural ...
¿Qué determina la cuenta corriente de los países exportadores de recursos naturales? Los casos de Chile y Nueva Zelanda
El artículo utiliza un modelo dinámico de equilibrio general (DSGE), para estudiar qué factores determinan los movimientos de la cuenta corriente en Chile y Nueva Zelanda, dos economías abiertas y pequeñas con exportaciones intensivas en recursos naturales. La estimación del modelo muestra que los ...