This article from the perspective of port governance, develops the performance of port privatization in México, considering the load indicators (general and containerized), exports and imports, cruise ship passengers, investments made and number of companies active in the maritime port sector....

This article from the perspective of port governance, develops the performance of port privatization in México, considering the load indicators (general and containerized), exports and imports, cruise ship passengers, investments made and number of companies active in the maritime port sector....

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo analizamos la evolución de la regulación de cambios de control en Europa y estudiamos como el movimiento desde sistemas basados en la regla de mercado a sistemas con reglas de igualdad de oportunidades va de la mano de una caída en los beneficios privados del...

An international reaction was required to the financial scandals of recent years, and some States started to reform corporate governance. Two main systems were used – self-regulation through good governance codes, and legislative measures to achieve transparency in financial markets. The...

Accounting and Financial methods are useful techniques for business, but their objective study should be inserted in the wider scope of Social Science. Historical issues determine policies and these ones, themselves, configure taxes and other environmental variables. Taxes, interest rates and...

Competitive markets could yield socially optimum results, but although market fail in many cases. If the regulation is successful in generating competition or in replicating its incentives, the next problem to solve is to face the inherent tendency of the competition dynamic toward...

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...

Spanish Abstract:Este trabajo analiza cómo los diferentes sistemas de asignación de licitaciones públicas entre empresas afectan a la dinámica empresarial y al crecimiento económico a largo plazo. Por un lado, construimos una base de datos administrativos que combina información sobre las...

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...