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Origen y consolidación de la dolarización del mercado inmobiliario en Argentina

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  • Pablo Nemina
  • Alejandro Gaggero

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Resumen: La dolarización del mercado inmobiliario argentino se instaló a finales de la década de 1970 y —luego de una fugaz retracción— se consolidó en la década siguiente. Los pocos trabajos que analizan la problemática conciben a la dolarización como la adaptación racional ante la inflación o una condena cultural. Este artículo busca aportar a los estudios de sociología económica sobre la determinación cualitativa de los precios. Desde una perspectiva de sociología económica, se analiza cómo las transformaciones en el régimen institucional de política económica llevadas adelante por la última dictadura militar (1976-1983), y los cambios en las expectativas de los actores económicos, incidieron en la dolarización del mercado inmobiliario iniciada a finales de la década de 1970 y consolidada a comienzos de la década siguiente. Menos que una adaptación automática de la población, se plantea que la dolarización fue el resultado de tres procesos que confluyeron en esos anos: la liberalización cambiaria y financiera, que favoreció el acceso a la divisa norteamericana; la mercantilización de la vivienda; y la institucionalización de la inflación. Se trató de un proceso no exento de retrocesos y decididamente no buscado por el gobierno. Abstract: The Argentinean real estate market dollarization was installed in the late 1970s and, after a brief retraction, was consolidated in the following decade. The few studies that analyze the problem conceive dollarization as a rational adaptation to inflation or a cultural rout. This paper seeks to contribute to economic sociology studies on the qualitative determination of prices. From an economic sociology perspective, how the changes in the economic policy institutional framework carried out by the military dictatorship, and changes in economic actors’ expectations, influenced the dollarization of the housing market is examined. Beyond an automatic adaptation by the population, it is argued that the housing market dollarization was the result of three processes that came together in those years: the exchange rate and financial liberalization, which favoured access to the US currency; the commodification of housing; and institutionalization of inflation. Also, it was a process not without setbacks and decidedly not promoted by the government.

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  • Pablo Nemina & Alejandro Gaggero, 2022. "Origen y consolidación de la dolarización del mercado inmobiliario en Argentina," Ensayos de Economía 20595, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín.
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    Keywords

    dolarización; mercado inmobiliario; Argentina; inflación; indexación; expectativas económicas; mercantilización de la vivienda; neoliberalismo; dollarization; real estate market; Argentina; inflation; indexation; economic expectations; housing commodification; Neoliberalism;
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    JEL classification:

    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • R30 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - General

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