We test for the populist view of inflation in Latin America between 1970 and 2007. The empirical results -based on the relatively novel panel time-series data and analysis confirm the theoretical prediction that recently ...

In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries be- tween 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel ...

We examine the impact of financial development on earnings inequality in Brazil in the 1980s and first half of the 1990s. The evidence—based initially on time-series, and then on the relatively novel panel time-series data ...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role of house prices in determining the dynamic behaviour of consumption in South Africa using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) approach to provincial level panel data ...

In this paper we investigate the role of poor macroeconomic performance, in terms of high rates of inflation, in determining economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1970 and 2007. The empirical results, ...

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil, and the data available permit us to cover the period between 1985 and 2004. The results — based initially on time series and then on panel time series ...

We test for the populist view of state capture in Latin America between 1970 and 2003. The empirical results based on the relatively novel panel time-series data and analysis confirm the prediction that recently-elected ...

Using a standard overlapping generations monetary production economy, faced with endogenously determined tax evasion by heterogeneous agents in the economy, we provide a theoretical model that indicates that both a lower ...