Latin American Economic Crises: Trade and Labour

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
The International Economic Association......Page 8
Preface and Acknowledgements by Jacques Drèze......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
1 A Comparison of Currency Crises between Asia and Latin America......Page 28
2 Latin America and the External Crisis of the Second Half of the 1990s......Page 49
3 Banking Crises in Latin America in the 1990s......Page 65
4 On the Causes of the Latin American and Asian Currency Crises of the 1990s......Page 83
5 Contagion in Emerging Markets......Page 106
6 Preferential Trade Agreements at the Turn of the Century......Page 120
7 The Role of Sub-regional Agreements in Latin American Economic Integration......Page 140
8 International Specialization and Trade Regimes in Argentina......Page 150
9 Testing the Short- and Long-run Exchange-Rate Effects on the Trade Balance......Page 174
10 External Shocks, Relative Prices and Sectoral Reallocation in a Small Open Economy......Page 192
11 Exchange-Rate Movements and the Export of Brazilian Manufactures......Page 212
12 The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment......Page 226
13 Structural Reform and the Distribution Effects of Price Changes in Argentina 1988-98......Page 247
14 Endogenous Child Mortality, the Price of Childspecific Goods and Fertility Decisions......Page 272
15 Child Labour in Peru......Page 283