This paper investigates nonlinear relationships between terms of trade volatility (totvol) and economic growth in 14 Latin American economies from 1997 to 2014. In the 2000s, countries experienced accelerated often attributed commodity price booms. We split sample into two regimes based on totvol thresholds determined by bootstrap techniques. Fixed effects, instrumental variable dynamic panel r...

background : exposure to formaldehyde (fa) causes irritative effects and induces nasopharyngeal cancer; the interna­tional agency for research on cancer (iarc, lyon) classified fa as carcinogenic to humans, group 1. many studies have been published so far concerning the occupational exposure of industrial workers, embalmers, pathologists and anatomists to fa but very few data regarding medical ...