Name: Latin American Economic Crises
ISBN: 978-1-4039-4385-9

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Editors:

Enrique Bour⁰,
Daniel Heymann¹,
Fernando Navajas²

Enrique Bour
1. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Daniel Heymann
1. Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Fernando Navajas
1. Universidad de la Plata, Argentina
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Part of the book series: International Economic Association Series (IEA)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xxiii

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Macroeconomic Crises
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. A Comparison of Currency Crises Between Asia and Latin America
  
  Koichi Hamada
  
  Pages 3-23
3. Latin America and the External Crisis of the Second Half of the 1990s
  
  Vittorio Corbo
  
  Pages 24-39
4. Banking Crises in Latin America in the 1990s: Lessons from Argentina, Paraguay and Venezuela
  
  Alicia García-Herrero
  
  Pages 40-57
5. On the Causes of the Latin American and Asian Currency Crises of the 1990s
  
  Marcel Fratzscher
  
  Pages 58-80
6. Contagion in Emerging Markets: When Wall Street is a Carrier
  
  Guillermo A. Calvo
  
  Pages 81-91
Trade and Trade Agreements
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 93-93
  
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2. Preferential Trade Agreements at the Turn of the Century
  
  T. N. Srinivasan
  
  Pages 95-114
3. The Role of Sub-regional Agreements in Latin American Economic Integration
  
  Victor L. Urquidi
  
  Pages 115-124
4. International Specialization and Trade Regimes in Argentina: 1960–99
  
  Luis Miotti, Carlos Quenan, Carlos Winograd
  
  Pages 125-148
5. Testing the Short- and Long-Run Exchange-Rate Effects on the Trade Balance: The Case of Colombia
  
  Hernán C. Rincón
  
  Pages 149-166
6. External Shocks, Relative Prices and Sectoral Reallocation in a Small Open Economy: Evidence from Mexico
  
  Talan İşcan
  
  Pages 167-186
7. Exchange-Rate Movements and the Export of Brazilian Manufactures
  
  Afonso Ferreira, Andreu Sansó
  
  Pages 187-198
Labour and Income Distribution
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 199-199
  
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2. The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment: Evidence from Colombia
  
  Adriana D. Kugler
  
  Pages 201-221
3. Structural Reform and the Distributional Effects of Price Changes in Argentina 1988–98
  
  Fernando H. Navajas
  
  Pages 222-246
4. Endogenous Child Mortality, the Price of Child-specific Goods and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Argentina
  
  Alessandro Cigno, Graciela Pinal
  
  Pages 247-257
5. Child Labour in Peru: An Empirical Analysis and its Modelling implications
  
  Ranjan Ray
  
  Pages 258-269

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About this book

This volume examines issues of economic interest faced by Latin America economies in the late Twentieth-century. The fifteen chapters deal with macroeconomic problems, financial crises, the development of trade and trade agreements and labour issues. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with Argentina, which provide an absorbing background to the financial crisis faced today.

Editors and Affiliations

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Enrique Bour, Daniel Heymann
Universidad de la Plata, Argentina

Fernando Navajas

About the editors

GUILLERMO A. CALVO Inter-American Development Bank, Washington and University of Maryland, USA ALESSANDRO CIGNO Universita di Firenze, Florence, Italy VITTORIO CORBO Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile AFONSO FERREIRA Universidada Federal de Minais Gerais and Centro de Pesquisa em Economia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil MARCEL FRATSCCHER European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany KOICHI HAMADA Yale University, New Haven, USA ALICIA HERRERO Banco Central de Espana, Madrid, Spain TALAN ISCAN Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada ADRIANA KUGLER Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain LUIS MIOTTI Universite de Paris, Paris, France GRACIELA PINAL Universidad Nacional di Salta, Argentina CARLOS QUENAN CREDAL, Universite de Paris, France RANJAN RAY University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia HERNAN RINCON Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia T. N. SRINIVASAN Yale University, New Haven, USA ANDREU SANSÓ Universitat de Barcelona, Spain VICTOR URQUIDI El Colegio di Mexico, Mexico City CARLOS WINOGRAD Secretary of State for Competition, Deregulation and consumer Affairs, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Latin American Economic Crises
Book Subtitle: Trade and Labour
Editors: Enrique Bour, Daniel Heymann, Fernando Navajas
Series Title: International Economic Association Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403943859
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Economics & Finance Collection, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99935-6Published: 09 December 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43335-3Published: 01 January 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-4385-9Published: 09 December 2003
Series ISSN: 2662-6330
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 269
Topics: Latin American Culture, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, International Economics

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

Front Matter

Macroeconomic Crises

Front Matter

Trade and Trade Agreements

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Labour and Income Distribution

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Keywords

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Editors and Affiliations

Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Universidad de la Plata, Argentina

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