Spanish Abstract: En el Ecuador al igual que en la mayoría de países de Latinoamérica la concentración del ingreso y la riqueza es un fenómeno recurrente que frecuentemente ha venido acompañado de medidas de política económica orientadas a favorecer a determinados grupos minoritarios que...

The profit-maximizing and oligopoly bank model developed by Bresnahan and Lau allows determining the degree of market power held by an average bank. The equilibrium price equation includes a mark up, which is not used in the case of perfect competition but which is partially used in the case of...

In this paper, we discuss the management of monetary policy of the Latin American central banks that have fully established inflation targeting. An optimal monetary rule is estimated for these economies using the Generalized Method of Moments. This analysis allows us to conclude that these...

El propósito del ensayo es sistematizar, en la tradición de Friedman y Schwartz (1963), el análisis de dos recientes coyunturas monetarias: la crisis de las hipotecas sub-prime (EEUU 2008-2011) y la corrida contra las Lebac (Argentina 2018-2019). Ambos casos son un buen ejemplo de la...

We construct inflation pressure indicators based on the long-run relationship that exists between monetary aggregates and prices, once it is adequately adjusted to account for the scale of transactions, as well as the opportunity cost of holding money. To that end, an extensive long-run...

We construct inflation pressure indicators based on the long-run relationship that exists between monetary aggregates and prices, once it is adequately adjusted to account for the scale of transactions, as well as the opportunity cost of holding money. To that end, an extensive long-run...

Spanish abstract: La valoración de los bienes raíces con fines de garantía hipotecaria es un elemento clave para la estabilidad financiera, como se puso de manifiesto a raíz de la crisis de 2008. En este contexto, el presente documento se centra en la descripción del sistema de tasación...

Spanish Abstract: El presente trabajo estudia cómo operó el crédito eclesiástico durante el periodo colonial en la ciudad de Santafé. Para ello se toma como instrumento de análisis el caso de los censos consignativos redimibles de los principales de capellanías. A diferencia de otros...