The increase in longevity risk is leading to serious challenges for economies. Industries such as insurance and pensions, which are most closely related to the management of the risks of an aging population, have for a number of years experienced direct effects of this kind. To counterbalance...

Latinoamerica viene experimentando un periodo amplio de crecimiento. Para que esta tendencia logre expandirse en los proximos años, se requiere cerrar brechas claves que puedan limitar la productividad total de los factores y asi evitar cuellos de botella. Una de esas brechas es la de...

Latin America is enjoying a period of extensive growth. If this trend is to continue into the coming years, the key insufficiencies that could limit total factor productivity will have to be dealt with in order to prevent bottlenecks. One of these insufficiencies is the infrastructure gap. The...

We estimate a model that integrates sticky prices and sticky information using Spanish data following Dupor et. al (2008). The model yields three empircal facts: a-) the frequency of price changes (around one year), b-) the firm's report that sticky information is no too important for nominal...