Browsing Año 2020 by Language "eng"
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Are the business cycles of Argentina and Brazil different? New features and stylized facts
(2020-07)This paper deals with the macroeconomic behavior of Argentina and Brazil for the period 1995.1-2018.4. It explores whether their economic fluctuations followed a similar pattern according to their duration, intensity and ... -
Business cycles synchronization among Argentina, Brazil and their main EU trading partners
(2020)In this paper, we apply the Hodrick and Prescott filter to explore whether the economic fluctuations of Argentina, Brazil andtheir main European Union (EU) trading partners followed a similar pattern for the period ... -
Categorization of financial assets using non- parametric DEA methods
(2020)This paper aims to propose an integrated methodological approach for the categorization of assets using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA, Basic Additive Model version). The need for stakeholders to assess the possibility ... -
Early indicators and risk factors associated with mental health problems during COVID-19 quarantine: Is there a relationship with the number of confirmed cases and deaths?
(2021)On March 20 2020, the Argentine Ministry of Health enforced a mandatory quarantine throughout the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The object of this study is to determine the initial impact on mental health ... -
Education as a key to reduce spatial inequalities and informality in Argentinean regional labour markets
(2021-02)This paper assesses the effects of the individual educational capital on their odds to belong to the formal or informal labour market in Argentina. Using recent microdata that studies more than 11,000 workers we estimate ... -
Inflation Dynamics in the ABC (Argentina, Brazil and Chile) countries
(2020)This research analyses the inertia and persistence of headline and sectoral inflation for Argentina (two periods), Brazil and Chile using seasonal fractional integrated autoregressive moving average (S-ARFIMAmodel). Measuring ... -
Projection pursuit algorithms to detect outliers
(2020)In this paper, we compare the methods proposed by Peña and Prieto (2001), and Filzmoser, Maronna, and Werner (2008) to detect outliers in a set of Argentine companies that quote their shares in the Stock Exchange. A ... -
The effects of rent control in Latin America: a century of regulations in Argentina
(2020)Following World War I, rent control became a standard policy response to the housing shortage and the resulting rent increases. Typically, economists blame it for creating inefficiencies in the housing market and beyond. ... -
The effects of rent controls in Latin America. A century of regulations in Argentina
(2020)Following World War I, rent control became a standard policy response to the housing shortage and the resulting rent increases. Typically, economists blame it for creating inefficiencies in the housing market and beyond. ... -
The great recession and the determinants of tariff and antidumping restrictions in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico: a retrospective study
(2020-02)During the Great Recession (GR) several Latin American economies were active users of trade policies measures. However, their protectionist response is frequently seen as an instrument to attain other goals rather than ...