Models of privatization and development of competition in telecommunications in Central America and Mexico

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Banking competition in Mexico

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Best practices in defence of competition in Argentina and Brazil: useful aspects for Central America

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Weak links between exports and economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Modelos de privatización y desarrollo de la competencia en las telecomunicaciones de Centroamérica y México

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Does discourse matter in the politics of building social pacts on social protection?: international experiences

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The strategies of multinational companies in 1990s Argentina

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Istmo Centroamericano: estadísticas del subsector eléctrico (datos actualizados a 2001)

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Expectations and industrial output in Uruguay: Sectoral interdependence and common trends

This paper examines the interdependence between expectations and growth by analysing Uruguayan manufacturing industry, divided for the purpose into four industry groupings differentiated by trade participation and production specialization. The study shows that there is a long-run relationship between industrialists' expectations and output growth in each grouping. In the most trade-oriented groupings the relationship is one of predetermination, showing how useful expectations are as a guide to sectoral growth. Expectations in the four industrial groupings are shown to follow a common long-run trend, identified with the one guiding the export grouping. Impulse-response simulations derived from a multisectoral vector autoregression (VAR) model confirm the important role of the industries most exposed to international competition in spreading shorter-term shocks.

Is price dispersion always an indication of price discrimination?

It has been established for a long time that there is significant dispersion in prices charged for seemingly homogeneous goods. This may happen in competitive markets because the world is not frictionless, and certainly in other markets where price discrimination is carried out by firms with oligopolistic power. This paper is the first survey of the economic literature on price dispersion that addresses the following three key issues: i) its characteristics as a result of optimizing search behavior; ii) its relevance as a reflection of price discrimination and its consequences for social welfare and policy intervention; and iii) the empirical evidence of price dispersion. By contributing to a better understanding of price dispersion, this survey may help in the design and implementation of competition and anti-trust policies

The liberalization of environmental goods and services: overview and implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

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Towards a theory of the small firm: theoretical aspects and some policy implications

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The transformation of the North American apparel industry: is NAFTA a curse or a blessing?

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Centroamérica: efecto de la integración con Estados Unidos sobre el mercado regional del maíz. Un análisis espacial de precios

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