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Macroeconomtc Performance Of Sixteen Ibero-American Countries Over The Period 1980-1991

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  • C.A. Knox Lovell

    (University of Georgia)

  • Jesús T. Pastor

    (Universidad de Alicante)

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The objective of this study is to analyze the macroeconomic performance of 16 Ibero- American countries over the period 1980- 199 1. Macroeconomic performance is defined as the ability of a country's macroeconomic managers to provide four welfare-enhancing economic services to their citizens: a high leve1 of GDP per capita, a low rate of inflation, a low rate of unemployment, and a favorable trade balance. We use linear programming techniques to construct a best practice macroeconomic performance frontier, against which to measure the relative performance of each country in each year relative to al1 countries in al1 years. We then normalize the data in order to evaluate the quality of the macroeconomic management of each country. El objetivo de este estudio es analizar el rendimiento macroeconómico en 16 países Iberoamericanos durante el período 1980-1991. Se define dicho rendimiento como la capacidad de sus gobernantes de proporcionar cuatro servicios económicos que aumenten el bienestar de sus habitantes: un alto nivel de GDP per cápita, una bajo coeficiente de inflación, un bajo coeficiente en la tasa de desempleo y una balanza comercial favorable. Se usan técnicas de programación lineal para construir la "mejor" frontera experimental de rendimiento macroeconómico, y ésta se usa para evaluar el rendimiento relativo de cada país en cada uno de los años estudiados respecto al conjunto formado por todos los paises durante todos los años. A continuación se normalizan los datos con el fin de evaluar la calidad de la administración macroeconómica de cada país.

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  • C.A. Knox Lovell & Jesús T. Pastor, 1995. "Macroeconomtc Performance Of Sixteen Ibero-American Countries Over The Period 1980-1991," Working Papers. Serie EC 1995-11, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
  • Handle: RePEc:ivi:wpasec:1995-11
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    1. Laurens Cherchye, 2001. "Using data envelopment analysis to assess macroeconomic policy performance," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(3), pages 407-416.

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