Spanish Abstract: En los últimos años la discusión acerca del diseño institucional de las agencias reguladoras del sector financiero se ha ido centrando en aspectos de gobierno corporativo. Asimismo, la independencia en la conducción de la política monetaria y el hecho de que las tareas de...

In order to promote public policies aimed at enhancing financial inclusion, the Central Bank of Argentina makes periodic efforts to study, measure and analyze the processes of access and use of financial services by households in Argentina. The main objective of this paper is to use the...

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...

When evaluating observably similar loan applications from men and women, do loan officers favor men? This paper randomly assigned loan requests of variable amounts to a balanced sample of male and female prospective borrowers who then submitted the assigned loan requests to randomly assigned...

In order to promote public policies aimed at enhancing financial inclusion, the Central Bank of Argentina makes periodic efforts to study, measure and analyze the processes of access and use of financial services by households in Argentina. The main objective of this paper is to use the...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo analiza cómo se han desenvuelto la concentración bancaria y la reorganización financiera en España y Portugal en el periodo post-crisis. destaca la continuidad de tres tendencias preocupantes para la estabilidad financiera en ambos países: el aumento del...