Foreign Capital in Latin America: A Long-Run Structural Global VAR Perspective

Psychiatry in Latin America: a historical perspective

The evolution of psychiatry in Latin America reflects the merger of three different types of human interactions. The first one is represented by the aborigine cultures that prevailed in this Continent before its discovery. This group in primarily represented by the Aztec and Incas Indians who primordially occupied Mexico and Peru respectively. The second one is primarily exemplified by the Span...

Latin America in a Changing Global Environment

Global Capital Markets in the Long Run: A Review of Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor’s Global Capital Markets

Written by Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor, Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth was a much-needed book that will be cited extensively by those with interests in the long run evolution of the world financial capital market. The book does not simply assess changes in the efficiency of global capital markets over the past 150 years, but rather adds significantly to debates abo...

Long-run Strategic Capital Structure

In the increasingly turbulent environment facing business the strategic management of the firm has become more predominate. However to date, the linkage between strategic management and financial management of the firm has largely not been explored. This research utilizes two different methods of analysis to confirm the linkage between capital structure and strategic posture of the firm. Specif...

analyzing the economic impacts of shocks within a long-run structural macroeconometric model for iran in a global context

this paper estimates a structural cointegrating varx model with exogenous variables for iran. the long-run macroeconomic relationships are identified and tested within this framework. we make use of the generalized forecast error variance decomposition to analyze the dynamic properties of the model in response to different shocks. we also examine via the persistence profiles, the speed of adjus...