Government spending, the exchange rate and growth: empirical evidence for Latin America

ABSTRACT Using data of selected economies of Latin America for the period 1990-2017, this paper aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the effect of disaggregate government spending in the exchange rate. Our results indicate that government investment depreciates the exchange rate whereas gove...

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Main Authors: MORITZ CRUZ, JOSUE ZAVALETA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editora 34 2021-11-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572021000400637&tlng=en