Con el objetivo de estudiar la asociación entre las características y los recursos de una red social y los hábitos financieros de sus miembros, aplicamos una encuesta en una comunidad académica acotada en la Ciudad de México. En consonancia con la literatura de redes y desarrollo...

This paper reports an experiment conducted to compare two mechanisms that provide solutions to the King Solomon’s Dilemma. One of them is proposed by Moore (1992) and the other by Perry and Reny (1999). The objective of each mechanism is to allocate a single unit of an indivisible private good...

The general purpose of the present document is to analyze the role of several social networks into financial development. In concrete, we have the hypothesis that in locations where closed social networks with family and friends prevail, financial transactions of saving and credit are not only...

In this paper we analyze the relationship between financial decisions, information acquisition, and trust. In particular, our hypothesis is that financial transactions depend, among other variables, on the level of trust, reciprocity and association among individuals. Also, individuals’...