Publications | Econ Americas

Few issues impact every single Alaskan more than the annual dividend from the fund. (12019/10259 images)

October 29, 2020

What Endangers the Alaska Fund

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Politics Proves Weak Link amid Shortfall

Caitlin Rose Morgante

Rice University, whose mascot is the owl, has for decades been home to two efficient-markets critics. (Rice University)

October 27, 2020

How Efficient Markets Became Academic Dogma

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John Dobelman Delivers Overdue Critique of Financial Orthodoxy

Fergus Hodgson

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In 2015, Guyana, an agriculture-based economy, found oil deposits along 193 km of its coast. (Dan Lundberg)

September 23, 2020

How Petrostate Guyana Got Caught in the Cross Hairs

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A tiny English-speaking country in northern South America, Guyana will be the world’s fastest-growing economy thanks to the massive oil reservoirs.

Paz Gómez

Despite Latin America’s legendary burdensome regulations, the first neobank in the region also emerged in 2013. (Canva)

September 9, 2020

Neobanks a Game-Changer for Unbanked in Brazil

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Despite economic woes, Brazil has emerged as an unlikely global leader in the next generation of banks.

Paz Gómez

MILA will not take off until member countries harmonize investment rules and provide tax incentives. (MILA)

August 6, 2020

The Latin American Integrated Market (MILA): A Misnomer?

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Lack of Harmonization, Red Tape Hamper Investment

Daniel Duarte

Honduras Próspera is offering limited presale reservations for housing units that will become a boutique hotel. (Próspera)

July 2, 2020

First Startup City Revives Honduran ZEDEs

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For years, Honduras’s ZEDEs seemed destined to never get off the ground. Roatán Próspera took everyone by surprise when it launched in early May 2020.

Paz Gómez

Ignoring or downplaying cryptocurrency critics will not make them go away.

Ignoring or downplaying cryptocurrency roadblocks will not make them go away. (Zach Copley)

June 22, 2020

Five Ways Cryptocurrency Critics Are Right

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What We Can Learn from Naysayers

Fergus Hodgson

WeWork's 2019 IPO fiasco was a wake-up call for venture capital. (Wikimedia)

June 9, 2020

Can Alternative Investments Withstand Mainstream Scrutiny?

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Once deemed the Wild West of finance, alternative investments have matured and doubled their market share over the past 15 years.

Daniel Duarte

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Emanuel Derman, author of My Life as a Quant and Columbia University professor. (Institute of Physics)

May 20, 2020

What Intellectuals Resent about Laissez Faire

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‘My Life as a Quant’ Reveals Envy of Physicist Turned Financial Engineer

Fergus Hodgson

Grid
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The final version of SeaPods will host SeaBnBs, timeshares, or long-term rental businesses. (Ocean Builders)

May 7, 2020

Seasteading Startup Docks in Panama

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Seasteading, the idea of building permanent and self-governing dwellings in international waters, has pivoted to Latin America.

Paz Gómez

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