This semiannual journal from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) provides a forum for influential economists and policymakers from the region to share high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among those countries.
Contents:
The Costs of Sovereign Default: Theory and Empirical Evidence,
Guido Sandleris
The Relationship between National Saving and Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean,
Eduardo Cavallo and Mathieu Pedemonte
Reciprocity and Willingness to Pay Taxes: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Latin America,
Daniel Ortega, Lucas Ronconi, and Pablo Sanguinetti
Challenges to Promoting Social Inclusion of the Extreme Poor: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment in Colombia,
Laura Abramovsky, Orazio Attanasio, Kai Barron, Pedro Carneiro, and George Stoye
Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector,
Pablo N. D'Erasmo
A Comparison of Saving Rates: Microdata Evidence from Seventeen Latin American and Caribbean Countries,
Néstor Gandelman