The importance of micro-entities due to their generation of employment and propelling economic activity, together with the fact of their particularities, implies the need to design appropriate methods that anticipate their bankruptcies. For that purpose, a hybrid model by combining parametric...

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...

Spanish Abstract: En los últimos 30 años el estudio del Behavioral Finance (“Finanzas comportamentales”)ha ganado importancia tanto en estudios académicos como en la práctica de las Finanzas. En este documento pretendo ofrecer una introducción al tema, orientada para estudiantes y...

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...

The importance of micro-entities due to their generation of employment and propelling economic activity, together with the fact of their particularities, implies the need to design appropriate methods that anticipate their bankruptcies. For that purpose, a hybrid model by combining parametric...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación ofrece una medición estandarizada del Bienestar Financiero en Colombia y propone un análisis predictivo para identificar los factores asociados a este índice. El análisis se basa en los Modelos de Respuesta Graduada (GRM), y modelos de aprendizaje...

This article studies which factors influence the appearance of subjective economic uncertainty and what are the economic expectations of individuals. The impact of the pandemic on the household economy and the subjective uncertainty based on a set of socioeconomic factors that cannot be observed...

We estimate the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for Mexico (2002Q1-2018Q2) with Ball and Mankiw's (2002) methodology using the Generalized Method of Moments. We prove that, with this methodology, the calculation of NAIRU is more efficient than the one calculated with the...