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• 2018 Diagnóstico de crecimiento para la República Dominicana
  by Fernando Navajas & Daniel Artana & Marcelo Catena & Juan Luis Bour [Downloadable!]
• 2013 Ecuador - Fiscal Stabilization Funds and Prospects
  by Simon Cueva [Downloadable!]
• 2012 Growth Diagnostics - Perú
  by Ricardo Hausmann [Downloadable!]
• 2011 Revisiting Economic Growth in Colombia: A Microeconomic Perspective
  by Arturo Harker [Downloadable!]
• 2010 Prospects for the Oil-importing Countries of the Caribbean
  by Ramon Espinasa [Downloadable!]
• 2009 Diagnóstico de crecimiento para la República Dominicana
  by Jose Maria Fanelli & Rolando Guzman [Downloadable!]
• 2008 Debt Sustainability Under Catastrophic Risk: The Case for Government Budget Insurance
  by Eduardo Borensztein & Eduardo Cavallo & Patricio Valenzuela [Downloadable!]
• 1081 Who Needs Strong Leaders?
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1080 On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings
  by Andrew Powell & Juan Francisco Martínez [Downloadable!]

• 2017 The Political Economy of the Budget Process - The Case of Ecuador
  by Andres Mejia Acosta & Maria Caridad Araujo & Vicente Albornoz [Downloadable!]
• 2016 La Economía Política del Proceso Presupuestario - El caso peruano
  by Jose Valderrama & Luis Carranza & Jorge F. Chavez [Downloadable!]
• 2015 The Political Economy of the Budget Process in the Andean Region - The Case of Venezuela
  by Abelardo Daza & Jose Manuel Puente & Alesia Rodriguez & German Rios [Downloadable!]
• 2014 La economía política del proceso presupuestal - El caso de Colombia
  by Mauricio Cardenas & Carolina Mejia & Mauricio Olivera [Downloadable!]
• 2007 La Vulnerabilidad Fiscal del Gasto Publico Social: Es Diferente America Latina? (The Fiscal Vulnerability of Social Public Expenditure: Is Latin America Different?)
  by Eduardo Lora [Downloadable!]
• 2006 Public Investment in Infrastructure in Latin America: Is Debt the Culprit?
  by Eduardo Lora [Downloadable!]
• 1079 The Missing Point in CAFTA
  by Jose Antonio Reyes [Downloadable!]
• 1078 Corporate Governance and Firm Valuation in Colombia
  by Carlos Pombo & Luis H. Gutierrez [Downloadable!]
• 1077 The Economic Effects of Employment Protection: Evidence from International Industry-Level Data
  by Carmen Pagés-Serra & Alejandro Micco [Downloadable!]
• 1076 Fear and Market Failure: Global Imbalances and “Self-Insurance”
  by Marcus Miller & Lei Zhang [Downloadable!]
• 1075 Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001
  by Alberto Chong & José Galdo & Jaime Saavedra [Downloadable!]
• 1074 An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
  by Hugo Ñopo [Downloadable!]
• 1073 Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?
  by Alberto Chong & Hugo Ñopo [Downloadable!]
• 1072 The Institutional Determinants of Political Transactions
  by Carlos Scartascini [Downloadable!]
• 1071 What Do Latin Americans Think of the IDB?
  by Marina Bassi [Downloadable!]
• 1070 Social Exclusion and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Heather Berkman [Downloadable!]
• 1069 On the Determinants and Effects of Political Influece
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1068 Occupational Training to Reduce Gender Segregation: The Impacts of ProJoven
  by Hugo Ñopo & Jaime Saavedra-Chanduvi & Miguel Robles [Downloadable!]
• 1067 What Do You Think of the IDB? Conclusions from an Opinion Survey of Latin American Leaders about Multilateral Organizations
  by Marina Bassi [Downloadable!]
• 1066 Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
  by Carmen Pages & Reyes Aterido & Mary Hallward-Driemeier [Downloadable!]
• 1065 Traditional Excluding Forces: A Review of the Quantitative Literature on the Economic Situation of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Descendants, and People Living with Disability
  by Hugo Ñopo & Laura Ripani & Nestor Gandelman [Downloadable!]
• 1064 Inequality, Democracy, Institutional Quality, and Fiscal Redistribution
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1063 Does Openness to Trade Make Countries More Vulnerable to Sudden Stops, or Less? Using Gravity to Establish Causality
  by Eduardo Cavallo & Jeffrey Frankel [Downloadable!]
• 1062 Debt Sustainability under Catastrophic Risk: The Case for Government Budget Insurance
  by Eduardo Borensztein & Eduardo Cavallo & Patricio Valenzuela [Downloadable!]
• 1053 Money Laundering and its Regulation
  by Alberto Chong & Florencio López-de-Silanes [Downloadable!]
• 1039 Corporate Governance and Firm in Latin America
  by Alberto Chong & Florencio López-de-Silanes [Downloadable!]
• 1038 Retornos a la Educación Privada en el Perú
  by Sebastian Calónico & Hugo Ñopo [Downloadable!]
• 1033 Output Volatility and Openness to Trade: A Reassessment
  by Eduardo Cavallo [Downloadable!]
• 1032 The Determinants of Corporate Risk in Emerging Markets: An Option-Adjusted Spread Analysis
  by Eduardo Cavallo & Patricio Valenzuela [Downloadable!]
• 1031 Becoming an Entrepreneur
  by Hugo Ñopo & Patricio Valenzuela [Downloadable!]
• 1029 Procyclicality or Reverse Causality?
  by Dany Jaimovich & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1028 Returns to Private Education in Peru
  by Sebastian Calonico & Hugo Ñopo [Downloadable!]
• 1027 Aid and Growth: Politics Matters?
  by Matteo Bobba & Andrew Powell [Downloadable!]

• 1061 Redistributional Preferences and Imposed Institutions
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1057 Political Environment and Privatization Prices
  by Alberto Chong & Alejandro Riaño [Downloadable!]
• 1056 Policy Volatility and Growth
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1055 On Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns After Privatization
  by Alberto Chong & Virgilio Galdo [Downloadable!]
• 1051 Is it possible to speak English without thinking American? On globalization and the determinants of cultural assimilation
  by Alberto Chong [Downloadable!]
• 1050 Is the World Flat? Or Do Countries Still Matter?
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1048 Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance
  by Alberto Chong & César Caldeón & Gianmarco León [Downloadable!]
• 1044 Foreign Aid, Income Inequality, and Poverty
  by María Cecilia Calderón & Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1042 Does It Matter How People Speak?
  by Alberto Chong [Downloadable!]
• 1040 Corporate Governance and Firm Value in Mexico
  by Alberto Chong & Florencio López-de-Silanes [Downloadable!]
• 1036 Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance
  by Alberto Chong & César Caldeón & Gianmarco León [Downloadable!]
• 1035 Barriers to Exit
  by Alberto Chong & Gianmarco León [Downloadable!]
• 1034 Quid pro Quo: National Institutions and Sudden Stops in International Capital Movements
  by Eduardo Cavallo & Andrés Velasco [Downloadable!]
• 1030 Trade, Gravity and Sudden Stops: On How Commercial Trade Can Increase the Stability of Capital Flows
  by Eduardo Cavallo [Downloadable!]
• 1026 Multilateral Intermediation of Foreign Aid: what is the trade off for donor countries?
  by Matteo Bobba & Andrew Powell [Downloadable!]
• 1025 “Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy” Economic Letters, Forthcoming
  by Matteo Bobba & Decio Coviello [Downloadable!]
• 1023 International Remittances and Income Inequality: An Empirical Investigation
  by Valerie Koechlin & Gianmarco Leon [Downloadable!]
• 1022 Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance
  by Cesar Calderon & Alberto Chong & Gianmarco Leon [Downloadable!]
• 1021 The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
  by Hugo Nopo [Downloadable!]
• 1020 Debt Instruments and Policies in the New Millennium: New Markets and New Opportunities
  by Eduardo Borensztein & Barry Eichengreen & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1019 Public Debt around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt
  by Dany Jaimovich & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1018 Do Sovereign Defaults Hurt Exporters?
  by Eduardo Borensztein & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1017 The Unexplained Part of Public Debt
  by Camila F. S. Campos & Dany Jaimovich & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]

• 1054 On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries
  by Alberto Chong & Mauricio Olivera [Downloadable!]
• 1043 Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru
  by Alberto Chong & Virgilio Galdo & Máximo Torero [Downloadable!]
• 1041 Do Democracies Breed Rent-Seeking Behavior?
  by César Calderón & Alberto Chong [Downloadable!]

• 2000 Should Latin America Fear China? revised version
  by Eduardo A. Lora [Downloadable!]
• 1059 Privatization in Mexico
  by Alberto Chong & Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes [Downloadable!]
• 1052 Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries
  by Alberto Chong & César Calderón & Valdés, Rodrigo [Downloadable!]
• 1047 Inequality, Institutions, and Informality
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1045 Inequality and Institutions
  by Alberto Chong & Mark Gradstein [Downloadable!]
• 1037 Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru
  by Alberto Chong & Jesko Hentschel & Jaime Saavedra [Downloadable!]
• 1024 The determinants of IMF lending”, “Rivista di Politica Economica” Nov-Dec 2004
  by Matteo Bobba [Downloadable!]
• 1016 Bank Ownership and Performance
  by Alejandro Micco & Ugo Panizza & Monica Yañez [Downloadable!]
• 1015 Bank Ownership and Lending Behavior
  by Alejandro Micco & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1014 Should the Government be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks
  by Ugo Panizza & Eduardo Levy-Yeyati & Alejandro Micco [Downloadable!]
• 1009 Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries with an Application to Ecuador
  by Ugo Panizza & Alejandro Izquierdo & Carlos Díaz-Alvarado [Downloadable!]
• 1006 Monetary Policies and Fiscal Policies in Emerging Markets
  by Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1005 Reform Fatigue: Symptoms, Reasons, and Implications
  by Ugo Panizza & Eduardo Lora & Myriam Quispe-Agnoli [Downloadable!]
• 1004 Why Are Latin Americans so Unhappy about Reforms?
  by Ugo Panizza & Monica Yañez [Downloadable!]

• 1058 Privatization and Labor Force Restructuring Around the World
  by Alberto Chong & Florencia Lopez-de-Silanes [Downloadable!]
• 1010 Inflation and Labor Market Flexibility: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
  by Ugo Panizza & Ana María Loboguerrero [Downloadable!]
• 1008 Corporate Governance and Private Capital Flows to Latin America
  by Ugo Panizza & Alejandro Izquierdo & Alejandro Micco & Alberto Chong [Downloadable!]

• 1013 Trade Agreements and Exchange Rate Disagreements
  by Ugo Panizza & Ernesto Stein & Eduardo Fernandez-Arias [Downloadable!]
• 1012 Structural Reforms in Latin America Under Scrutiny
  by Ugo Panizza & Eduardo Lora [Downloadable!]
• 1003 Fiscal Sustainability in Egypt
  by Alejandro Izquierdo & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 0001 Regional Banks and Regionalism: A New Frontier for Development Financing
  by Robert Devlin & Lucio Castro [Downloadable!]

• 1049 Inward-Looking Policies, Institutions, Autocrats, and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Exploration
  by Alberto Chong & Luisa Zanforlin [Downloadable!]
• 1046 Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve?
  by Alberto Chong [Downloadable!]
• 1007 Macroeconomic Policies in Egypt: An Interpretation of the Past and Options for the Future
  by Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]
• 1000 Social Mobility and Religion: Evidence from Individual-Level Data
  by Marianne El Khoury & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]

• 1011 Political Institutions and Growth Collapses
  by Ugo Panizza & Ernesto Stein & Jessica Seddon Wallack & Alejandro Gaviria [Downloadable!]
• 429 What's Wrong with International Financial Markets?
  by Fernandez-Arias, E. & Hausmann, R.
• 428 Getting it Right: What to Reform in International Financial Markets
  by Fernandez-Arias, E. & Hausmann, R.
• 427 Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and all that: How Different Are Latin America and South East Asia?
  by Attanasio, O.P. & Szekely, M.
• 425 Labor Markets and Income Support : What Did We learn from the Crisis?
  by Marquez, G.
• 419 Political Institutions and Growth Collapses
  by Gaviria, A. & Panizza, Ugo & Seddon, J. & Stein, E.H.
• 418 Why Do Countries Float the Way They Float?
  by Panizza, U. & Stein, E.H. & Hausmann, R.
• 416 Is FDI a Safer Form of Financing?
  by Hausmann, R. & Fernández-Arias, E.
• 414 The Evolution of Urban Concentration Around the World: A Panel Approach
  by Gaviria, A. & Stein, E.H.
• 412 The Demographic Transition in Closed and Open Economies: A Tale of Two Regions
  by Attanasio, O.P. & Violante,G.L.

• 406 Decomposing Fertility Differences Across World Regions and Over Time: Is Improved Health More Important than Women's Schooling?
  by Behrman, J.R. & Duryea, S. & Szekely, M.
• 405 Aging and Economic Opportunities: Major World Regions Around the Turn of the Century
  by Behrman, J.R. & Duryea, S. & Szekely, M.
• 404 Income Inequality and Economic Growth: Evidence from American Data
  by Panizza, U.
• 403 Why Do Lazy People Make More Money? The Strange Case of the Public Sector Premium
  by Panizza, U.
• 402 International Initiatives to Bring Stability to Financial Integration
  by Fernandez-Arias, E. & Hausman, R.
• 401 Preventing Crisis and Contagion: Fiscal and Financial Dimensions
  by Gavin, M. & Hausman, R.
• 399 Collective Bargaining Systems in 6 Latin American Countries: Degrees of Autonomy and Decentralization. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay
  by O'Connell, L.D.
• 390 Household Savings and Income Distribution in Mexico
  by Attanasio, O.P. & Szekely, M.
• 386 Intergenerational Schooling Mobility and Macro Conditions and Schooling Policies in Latin America
  by Behrman, J.R. & Birdsall, N. & Szekely, M.
• 382 Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries
  by Scarpetta, S.

• 376 Children's Advancement Through School in Brazil: the Role of Transitory Shocks to Household Income
  by Duryea, S.
• 371 The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts
  by Lora, E. & Marquez, G.
• 369 Private External Overborrowing in Undistorted Economies
  by Fernandez-Aria, E. & Lombardo, D.
• 366 Trade and Employment: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
  by Marquez, G. & Pages, C. [Downloadable!]

• 345 Intergovernmental Transfers and Political Representation : Empirical Evidence from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico
  by Kraemer, M
• 344 Asset Inequality Does matter: Lessous from Latin America
  by Birdsall, N & Londono, J-L
• 342 Policy Options for Poverty Alleviation
  by Szekely, M
• 341 North-South Customs Unions and International Capital Mobility
  by Fernandez-Arias, E & Spiegel, M-M
• 340 Financial Markets and the Behavior of Private Savings in Latin America
  by Rojas-Suarez, L & Weisbrod, S-R
• 339 Transition to a Functional Financial Safety Net in Latin America
  by Garber, P-M
• 338 How Should Financial Institutions and Markets Be Structured? Analysis and Options for Financial System Design
  by Kaufman, G-G & Kroszner, R-S
• 337 Make or Buy. Approaches to Financial Market Integration
  by Gavin, M & Hausmann, R
• 336 Towards an Effective Regulatory and Supervisory Framework for Latin America
  by Rojas-Suarez, L & Weisbrod, S-R
• 334 Growth and Trade : the North Can Lose
  by Spilimbergo, A

• 326 Managing Fiscal Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean: Volatility, Procyclicality, and Limited Creditworthiness
  by Gavin, M. & Hausmann, R. & Perotti, R. & Talvi, E.
• 325 Exchange rate depreciation, Dollarization and Uncertainty: A Comparison of Bolivia and Peru
  by McNelis, P.D. & Rojas-Suarez, L.
• 324 Exchange rate-based Stabilization with Endogenous Fiscal Response
  by Talvi, E.
• 323 The Welfare Implications of Trading Blocs Among Countries with Different Endowments
  by Spilimbergo, A. & Stein, E.
• 322 Savings in Chile: What Went Right?
  by Morande, F.G.
• 321 Banking crises in Latin America: Experience and Issues
  by Rojas-Suarez, L. & Weisbrod, S.R.
• 320 Building Stability in Latin American Financial Markets
  by Rojas-Suarez, L. & Weisbrod, S.R.
• 319 Managing Banking Crises in Latin America: The Di's and Don'ts of Successful Bank Restructuring Programs
  by Rojas-Suarez, L. & Weisbrod, S.R.
• 318 The Roots of Banking Crises: The Macroeconomic Context
  by Gavin, M. & Hausmann, R.
• 317 Evolution and Rationality of Budget Institutions in Colombia
  by Hommes, R.
• 316 Regulation and Deregulation in Colombia Much Ado About Nothing?
  by Hommes, R.
• 315 Securing Stability and Grwoth in a Shock-Prone region: The Policy Challenge for Latin America
  by Gavin, M. & Hausmann, R.
• 314 The Mexican Oil Boom: 1977-1985
  by Gavin, M.
• 301 Investment in Education: Do Economic Volatility and Credit Constraints Matter?
  by Flug, K. & Spilimbergo, A. & Wachtenheim, E.

• 313 Fiscal Policy and the Business Cycle Associated with Excahnge Rate-Based Stabilization: Evidence from Uruguay's 1978 and 1991 Programs
  by Talvi, E.
• 312 Testing the Hypothesis of Collusive Behavior Among OPEC Members
  by Spilimbergo, A.
• 311 De-Industrialization and Trade
  by Spilimbergo, A.
• 310 The Macroeconomics of Capital Flows to Latin America: Experience and Policy Issues
  by Gavin, M. & Hausmann, R. & Leiderman, L.
• 309 Political Stabilization Cycles in High Inflation Economies
  by Stein, E.H. & Streb, J.M.
• 308 Issues in Estimating Benefits with Non-Market Methods
  by McCornell, K.E.
• 307 Dealing with Negative Oil Shocks: The Venezuelan Experience in the Eighties
  by hausmann, R.

• 306 Varieties of Capital-Market Crises
  by Calvo, G.A.
• 305 Swimming Against the Time: Strategies for Improving Equity in Health
  by Birdsall, N. & Hecht, R.
• 304 Achieving Stability in Latin Amarican Financial Markets in the Presence of Volatile Capital Flows
  by Rojas-Suarez, L. & Weisbrod, S.
• 303 Fiscal Discipline and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regime
  by Tornell, A. & Velasco, A.
• 302 Inflows of Capital to Developing Countries in the 1990s:Causes and Effects
  by Calvo, G.A. & Leiderman, L. & reinhart, G.M.

• 2005 Public Debt and Social Expenditure: Friends or Foes?
  by Eduardo A. Lora & Mauricio Olivera [Downloadable!]
• 2004 The Reform of the Fiscal Institutions in Latin America
  by Eduardo A. Lora & Mauricio Cardenas [Downloadable!]
• 2003 La reforma de las instituciones fiscales en América Latina
  by Eduardo A. Lora & Mauricio Cardenas [Downloadable!]
• 2002 Why So Small? Explaining the Size of Firms in Latin America
  by Eduardo A. Lora & Ana Maria Herrera [Downloadable!]
• 2001 The Electoral Consequences of the Washington Consensus
  by Eduardo A. Lora & Mauricio Olivera [Downloadable!]
• 1002 Economic, Social and Demographic Determinants of Political Participation in Latin America: Evidence from the 1990s
  by Alejandro Gaviria & Ugo Panizza & Jessica Seddon Wallack [Downloadable!]
• 1001 Religion and Education Gender Gap: Are Muslims different from Christians?
  by Mandana Hajj & Ugo Panizza [Downloadable!]

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