The great moderation lulled macroeconomists and policymakers alike in the belief that we knew how to conduct macroeconomic policy. The crisis clearly forces to question that assessment. This paper reviews the main elements of the pre-crisis consensus, identify where we were wrong and what tenets...

Financial regulation is normally imposed in reaction to some prior crisis, rather than founded on theoretical principle. In the past, regulation has been deployed to improve risk management practices in individual banks. This was misguided. Instead, regulation should focus first on systemic...

The idea that credit is important has gained importance in the contemporary macroeconomic theory. However, almost all the models that explicitly include financial variables in their explanation of economic behaviour continue to differentiate between the monetary and the real economy in the long...

This article characterizes the properties of the compensation scheme of delegated portfolio management that would lead to the selection of high risk-high return portfolios. In particular, it provides conditions under which a non-monotone payment structure emerges as an optimal contract, which...

Spanish Abstract: Se presenta un análisis económico de la Ley de energía para el campo, (LEC) que examina cómo su diseño afecta los mercados y crea una estructura de información que favorece la extracción de rentas. Mediante modelos sencillos de equilibrio parcial y de agente-principal se...

Spanish Abstract:A partir de una encuesta realizada entre marzo y julio de 2015 a más de cien compañías españolas partícipes en las operaciones de compraventa de empresas este trabajo examina la realidad de diversas cláusulas utilizadas por los operadores en esos contratos en cuestiones...

This article characterizes the properties of the compensation scheme of delegated portfolio management that would lead to the selection of high risk-high return portfolios. In particular, it provides conditions under which a non-monotone payment structure emerges as an optimal contract, which...

This article characterizes the properties of the compensation scheme of delegated portfolio management that would lead to the selection of high risk-high return portfolios. In particular, it provides conditions under which a non-monotone payment structure emerges as an optimal contract, which...

En este artículo se muestra una aplicación de la minería de textos para extraer información de documentos financieros y usar esta información para crear índices de sentimiento. En particular, el análisis se centra en los diferentes números del Informe de Estabilidad Financiera (IEF) del...

El trabajo analiza los determinantes de la ratio de morosidad en la deuda bancaria empresarial en España durante el período 1992-2003, estudiando los factores que explican la entrada y salida de las empresas en la situación de mora en el pago de la deuda bancaria, y los factores que explican...