J. Humberto Lopez

The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital

Evidence from Latin American Household Surveys

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative househo...

Sectorial Macroeconomic Interdependencies

Evidence for Latin America, East Asia and Europe

This paper analyzes common economic patterns across countries and economic sectors in Latin America, East Asia and Europe for the period 1970–94 by ...

A Normal Relationship?

Poverty, Growth, and Inequality

Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the ...

Global Equilibrium Exchange Rates

Euro, Dollar, “Ins,” “Outs,” and Other Major Currencies in a Panel Cointegration Framework

This paper presents a methodology for calculating bilateral equilibrium exchange rates for a panel of currencies in a way that guarantees global consi...

Pro-growth, Pro-poor

Is There a Tradeoff?

"Is a pro-growth strategy always the best pro-poor strategy? To address this issue, Lopez provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of a series o...

Domestic, Foreign or Common Shocks?

A stochastic general equilibrium model of the world economy is used to analyze the origin of international business cycles using data for Germany, Jap...

The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital

Evidence from Latin American Household Surveys

This paper explores the impact of remittances on poverty, education, and health in 11 Latin American countries using nationally representative househo...

Getting the Most Out of Free Trade Agreements in Central America

The main message of the study is that Central America's ability to exploit the opportunities created by ongoing trade liberalization will depend on th...

How Long is the Long Run? A Dynamic Analysis of the Spanish Business Cycle

This paper studies the sources of Spanish business cycles. It assumes that Spanish output is affected by two types of shocks. The first one has perman...

Comovement and Macroeconomic Interdependence

Evidence for Latin America, East Asia, and Europe

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A Normal Relationship? Poverty, Growth, and Inequality

Using a large cross-country income distribution dataset spanning close to 800 country-year observations from industrial and developing countries, the ...

Pro-Growth, Pro-Poor

Is There a Tradeoff?

Is a pro-growth strategy always the best pro-poor strategy? To address this issue, the author provides an empirical evaluation of the impact of a seri...