In this paper I study effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate a new measure of a monetary policy shock, correcting two possible risks as the endogeneity that a monetary policy shock may have with the economic activity...

This paper attempts to answer whether minimum wage increases help to close income gaps across ethnic groups in Peru. To answer this question, I study the period 2004-2019 in Peru and estimate the effects of minimum wage increases based on nominal minimum wage, real minimum wage, and Kaitz index...

The violence against women continues to be a prevalent social problem in Peru. This paper aims to estimate the effects of mining activity on violence against women, as measured by three variables: psychological, physical, and sexual. In addition, a total violence variable is considered, the sum...

This paper studies the effects of cooperating on firm performance. Performance is measured through three variables as Sales, Exports, and Innovations. To estimate these effects, I use pooled regression and instrumental variables based on LAIS data for firms from 2007-2017 in 10 Latin American...

We analyze the recent evolution of ethnic economic inequality in Peru, a major source of social discontent in the country. Household survey data indicates that recent decades of high output growth also witnessed a substantial narrowing of socioeconomic gaps among ethnicities. Most notably, the...

This paper studies the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on aggregate productivity growth. To address this question, I use a Panel VAR whose estimator is System GMM for 134 countries and I divide those countries in High-, Middle- and Low-Income Countries for period 1990-2018. I find...

This paper studies the effects of financial liberalization on governability. The dependent variables measure governability in terms of control of corruption, government effectiveness, political stability, rule of law, regulatory quality, and free speech for 125 countries from 1996 to 2019. As a...

This paper studies the effects of mining intensity and presence on Peru's mining districts' welfare from 2004 to 2019. I use a pooled cross-section regression constructed from different sources and make two sets of comparisons: the first compare districts with and without the mining presence...

Purpose: This paper studies the effects of minimum wage on domestic violence across the labor market considering whether she and/or her partner is employed, and whether she is formally or informally employed. Methods: I elaborate three types of violence: physical, sexual and psychological. I...

The Great Liberalization was a historical process between 1986 and 1994 that consisted in developing countries adopting open trade policies to integrate themselves, in economic and financial terms, with the rest of the world. This paper analyzes the effects of this process on innovation. I use...