The present study calculates the proportional liquidity usage of the Mexican Real Time Settlement Payment System, SPEI, during a one month period. In particular, our interest is to get insights on how different is the liquidity level at the settlement in real time of low and large value payment...

Consumer protection in financial markets in the form of information disclosure is high on governments agendas, despite the fact that the empirical evidence on its effectiveness is scarce. To measure the impact of Truth-in-Lending-Act-type disclosures on default and indebtedness, as well as of...

Different segments of a population affected by the same policy intervention may have different responses. We study the role of equilibrium effects on explaining these differences. Our case study is the government's extension of guarantees during the Great Recession to certain debt issuers. We...