作者:LYONS, RK
作者单位:National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要:Three potentially complementary models are tested in an effort to capture the fundamentals that underlaid the market's determination of Peru's floating exchange rate through the period 1950-1954: the first is an expectational purchasing power parity (PPP) model which maintains that asset market forces were driving the exchange rate to its perceived PPP level; the second is a flexible-price monetary model; and the third is a model along the lines described by Tsiang (1957) which emphasizes worl...
作者:DEGREGORIO, J
摘要:This paper studies growth determinants in 12 Latin American countries during the period 1950-1985. In a growth accounting framework, the share of labor in income is found to be lower in the sample group than in developed countries, while factor productivity growth accounts for a larger proportion of growth in the fastest growing countries. Using panel data, macroeconomic stability is found to play, in addition to investment (physical and human), a crucial role in growth. To a lesser extent, gr...