TOHMÉ , Fernando

This paper presents a model of the conditions that may lead a small open economy towards a middle income trap. This situation has shown to be pervasive in Latin America. As Argentina is a salient instance of this phenomenon, we develop a stylized model of its economy at the first decades of the XXth century. It consists of a general equilibrium...

This paper models the influence of political instability on long-term economic growth. We consider three political systems associated to real-world political systems of increasing participation in policy-making. For each system, society chooses an agent that remains in power unless instability, represented as a shortening of the period in...