Seigniorage is the ability of a central bank to capture real resources from the economy through the creation of nominal primary money. This article investigates the conditions of financial vulnerability in foreign currency of the BCB that would limit its essential functions as lender of last...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and highlight the structure and functioning of shadow banks as institutions that played a key role in the 2008 financial crisis, which may contribute to identify financial risks in the future. The interrelated growth of shadow banks through their balance...

Este trabajo propone un procedimiento para evaluar la posible existencia de correlación negativa entre complejidad fonológica, morfológica y sintáctica de diferentes idiomas. El procedimiento se basa en el uso de coeficientes de correlación parcial, variables instrumentales y sistemas de...

English Abstract: There is a growing consensus that Venezuela will not be able to persist for much longer with its policy of full external debt service. The social costs are just too great. This implies a debt restructuring of some kind. Venezuela, principally through its state-owned oil...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo trata sobre la naturaleza de las crisis económicas en la Argentina. La opinión usual las vincula con la escasez de divisas. En este ensayo se polemiza con esta tesis. El punto de partida del análisis es la teoría del imperialismo. A principios del siglo xx,...

English Abstract: The pari passu fallacy, first uncloaked in 2000, holds that when a sovereign borrower promises to maintain the equal ranking of a debt with the borrower's other senior indebtedness, it thereby implicitly promises to pay all of those debts on a ratable basis. In its 18-year life...

English Abstract: Argentina is once again seeking to restructure its external debt. To facilitate this process, the country is proposing to use the state-of-the-art collective action clause that was included in the bonds Argentina started issuing in the Spring of 2016. When it uncloaked its...