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Argentina's capital gap puzzle

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  • Finn E. Kydland
  • Carlos E.J.M. Zarazaga

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Argentina’s GDP per working age person in 2003 was about the same as it was twenty years earlier and around fifteen percent below trend. By international standards that has been a dismal performance whose ultimate sources are important to uncover to eventually reverse that country’s seemingly secular decline. The purpose of this paper is precisely to take a first step towards that understanding. To that effect, we examine Argentina’s recent growth experience, which includes two deep recessions and a recovery, with the lens of a neoclassical growth model that takes total factor productivity as exogenous.

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Paper provided by Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in its series Center for Latin America Working Papers with number 0504.

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Date of creation: 2004
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Handle: RePEc:fip:feddcl:0504

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  1. Carlos E. J. M. Zarazaga, 2006. "Argentina’s unimpressive recovery: insights from a real business cycle approach," Working Papers 0606, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

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