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James A. Hanson
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 7
Citations - 267
James A. Hanson is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Devaluation & Inflation. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 263 citations.
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Contractionary devaluation, substitution in production and consumption, and the role of the labor market
TL;DR: In this article, the condition under which devaluation reduces demand for home goods, and thus aggregate output if real exports are fixed, basically depends on the sign of one plus the weighted sum of the price elasticities of demand for imported consumer goods and of derived demand for inputs.
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External shocks, financial reforms, and stabilization attempts in Uruguay during 1974–1983
James A. Hanson,Jaime de Melo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that domestic interest rate deregulation and the removal of prohibition towards holding dollar-denominated assets led to a rise in the ratio of financial assets in GDP and to a shift towards dollar denominated assets, and the persistent and large spread between peso and dollar interest rates adjusted for the preannounced rate of devaluation ( tablita) is examined.
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The Short-Run Relation Between Growth and Inflation in Latin America: A Quasi Rational or Consistent Expectations Approach
TL;DR: Fernandez et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the short-run relation between inflation and growth in Latin America and found that the reaction to unexpected inflation depends on the predictability of inflation, because predictability in the five cases is seen to be similar, once one allows for differences in monetary supply processes.
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The Growth in Government Domestic Debt : Changing Burdens and Risks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the recent growth of government domestic debt, including central bank debt, using a new data base on government domestic Debt in developing countries with large, open financial systems.
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Inflation and imported input prices in some inflationary Latin American economies
TL;DR: In this article, the estimates of the Harberger inflation model for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay were updated to 1980 and all the hypotheses of this model hold and the reaction to monetary growth is fairly rapid.