5 papers
IMF Programs and Growth: A Source-Informed Robustness Reanalysis
Ricardo Alonzo Fernández Salguero
This article reassesses the meta-analytic evidence on the effect of International Monetary Fund programs on economic growth. The point of departure is the influential meta-analysis…
Testing Centralized and Polycentric Computational Planning
Ricardo Alonzo Fernández Salguero
This paper presents a reproducible synthetic benchmark comparing a computational planner, an agent-based market, and a hybrid meta-market within a common simulated economy. The ben…
Fiscal Aggregation and the Limits of IS--LM--BP: Derivations, Aggregation Bias and Reproducible Adversarial Simulations
Ricardo Alonzo Fernandez Salguero
This paper develops a formal critique of scalar fiscal aggregation in the IS LM BP/Mundell Fleming framework. It shows that when fiscal policy is composed of heterogeneous instrume…
Integrated analysis of informality, minimum wage, and monopsony power: A synthesis of meta-analyses with unified theoretical underpinnings
Ricardo Alonzo Fernandez Salguero
This document offers a synthesis of recent economic literature on three interconnected areas of labor markets: informality, the effects of the minimum wage, and monopsony power. Th…
An Analysis of Monetary Policy Evidence and Theory through Meta-Analyses
Ricardo Alonzo Fernandez Salguero
This paper offers a synthesis of the empirical literature on the effects of monetary policy. Using the findings from an extensive collection of meta-analyses, it evaluates the effe…