Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America
Latin America is a very important region of the globe, which has been buffeted by successive waves of economic instability within the last decades. These waves have caused several episodes of hyperinflation or near hyperinflation, and several currency and
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Rolf J. Langhammer Lucio Vinhas de Souza (Eds.)
Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Latin America
Springer
Rolf J. Langhammer Institut fiir Weltwirtschaft Kiel D-24100Kiel langhammer @ ifw-kiel.de
Lucio Vinhas de Souza European Commission Avenue de Beaulieu, 1 B-1160, Brussels [email protected]
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Contents
Preface
ROLFLANGHAMMER
VII
LUCIO VINHAS DE SOUZA
Reducing Inflation through Inflation Targeting: The Mexican Experience Comment
How Has NAFTA Affected the Mexican Economy? Review and Evidence
MANUEL RAMOS-FR ANCIA
1
and ALBERTO TORRES PAULO SPRINGER DE FREITAS
30
M. AYHAN KOSE, GUY M.MEREDITH,
35
and CHRISTOPHER M . TOWE
Comment
LUCIO ViNHAS DE SOUZA
82
Argentina: Monetary Policy by Default
GEORGE T. MCCANDLESS
87
Comment
ALICIA GARCIA HERRERO
113
Do Exchange Rates Matter in Inflation Targeting Regimes? Evidence from a VAR Analysis for Poland and Chile
FELIX H AMMERM ANN
115
Comment
MARCEL FRATZSCHER
149
JORGE BRAGA DE MACEDO
153
Argentina and Brazil Risk: A "Eurocentric" Tale Comment
and MARTIN GRANDES GEORGE T. MCCANDLESS
173
VI
CONTENTS
Macroeconomic Shocks, Inflation, and Latin America's Labor Market Comment
Monetary Policy Rules in Emerging Market Economies: Issues and Evidence Comment
List of Contributors
ANA MARIA LOBOGUERRERO and UGO PANIZZA
177
ANSGARBELKE
198
M.S. MOHANTY
205
AND MARC KLAU RAINER SCHWEICKERT
246
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Preface Latin America is a very important region of the globe, which has been buffeted by successive waves of economic instability within the last decades. These waves have caused several episodes of hyperinflation or near hyperinflation, and several currency and financial crises, which, in certain moments, have even spilled over and affected other emerging markets. Th
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