.... Asymmetric effects are stronger and more systematic in Europe, while Latin America shows weaker and more heterogeneous responses. Intraregional correlations are extremely high in Europe, limiting diversification, whereas Latin America remains moderately and unevenly integrated. No evidence of structural...

... approaches to analyze in depth the effects of external debt in a relatively unexplored region like Latin America. Furthermore, it incorporates robustness tests that divide the sample according to the identified investment threshold, providing key empirical evidence for the design of public policies aimed...

...Noha Emara; Hicran Kasa; Kubilay Çağrı Yılmaz Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between financial depth and domestic savings in Latin America, identifying how variations in financial development influence savings rates and determining if there is an optimal level...

... impacted the severity of poverty and influenced the cost of poverty eradication in Latin America, empirically evaluate these effects and offer appropriate policy recommendations. Design/methodology/approach This paper used panel data for 13 Latin American countries from world bank spanning the period...

... changed over the years in Latin America, underscoring the importance of our time-varying specification. There are evidences of a greater volatile inflation behavior in the beginning of the sample period in comparison to the last few years. Overall, the considered Latin American economies seem...

... to the literature on fiscal consolidation and the composition of government expenditures. While the literature based on evidence from the 1990s has argued that fiscal consolidation plans in Latin America have almost always led to a significant reduction in public infrastructure investment, the paper finds less...

... growth Total factor productivity Infrastructure Cointegration Structural breaks Latin America Likewise, Röller and Waverman (2001) analysed the impact of the telecommunications sector on the GDP in the long run while also addressing the problem of simultaneity bias. The authors used...

... of cheap‐food policies in the 1980s are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Agriculture Latin America Economics Pricing policy Resources Journal of Economic Studies 18,2 4 Cheap Food and Resource Allocation in Central America Kenneth A. Reinert US International Trade Commission, Washington...