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The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between fiscal and monetary policy coordination and fiscal multipliers in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. To do so, we first look at the theoretical framework of the New Consensus Macroeconomics (NCM), and then analyze the trends in the four countries for variables including consumption, investment, government spending, and interest rates. Finally, we present an estimate of the spending and monetary multipliers with proxy variables. The contribution of this paper consists of one, showing the inexistence of the crowding out effect, and two, quantifying the multipliers for the aforementioned countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I analyze tax revenues at the federal level between 1870 and 1930. Above all, I focus on the changes (under the public finance reforms of Matías Romero and Alberto J. Pani) in the tax structure and the different trends in both internal and external taxes at the time. Further, I show the importance of exports for federal revenues and how the development of the Mexican economy depended on export taxes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]