Accounting for Output Drops in Latin America /

This paper evaluates what type of models can account for the recent episodes of output drops in Latin America. I develop an open economy version of the business cycle accounting methodology (Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan, 2007) in which output fluctuations are decomposed into four sources: total facto...

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Autor Principal: Lama, Ruy
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2009/067
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF