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  "title": "Investment by Large Firms in Argentina",
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  "summary": "Strong growth in investment made a key contribution to the economic recovery in Argentina earlier this decade. The paper uses firm-level data to assess changes in financing constraints and the linkages between real investment at the firm level and macroeconomic developments in the real exchange rate",
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    "Authors: Alvaro Piris Chavarri",
    "Published: January 1, 2010",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451961690.001",
    "Strong growth in investment made a key contribution to the economic recovery in Argentina earlier this decade.",
    "The paper uses firm-level data to assess changes in financing constraints and the linkages between real investment at the firm level and macroeconomic developments in the real exchange rate and real interest rates.",
    "The paper concludes that several factors explain the performance of investment, including the real exchange rate, the cost of borrowing as well as an easing of financing constraints.",
    "Data: firm-level data (as stated in the paper).",
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    "Real exchange rate.",
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    "Easing of financing constraints at the firm level.",
    "**Investment by Large Firms in Argentina; Alvaro Piris; IMF Working Paper 10/3; January 1, 2010**"
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