Estimamos el indicador de competencia H de Panzar y Rosse (1987) en la industria bancaria en el Perú para el periodo enero de 2001 hasta diciembre de 2013. Encontramos que este índice se encuentra alrededor de 0.5, consistente con una estructura de mercado de competencia monopolística. No...

El objetivo de este trabajo es profundizar la identificación de los episodios de “auge crediticio” en el Perú. Éste se define como aquel periodo durante el cual el crédito al sector privado se incrementa por encima de lo usual durante una típica fase expansiva del ciclo económico y...

I study a stochastic overlapping generations model with production and three-period- lived agents. Agents trade bonds and risky capital. Unlike the two-period model, I show that a stationary equilibrium in which prices and allocations depend solely on the aggregate capital stock and the current...

I introduce habit formation into an otherwise standard overlapping generations economy with pure exchange populated by three-period-lived agents. Habits are modeled in such a way that current consumption increases the marginal utility of future consumption. With logarithmic utility functions, I...

This paper evaluates the qualitative and quantitative implications of financial dedollarization of firms' liabilities on real aggregates in a small open economy model. We extend the standard Cespedes, Chang, and Velasco (2004) model by allowing entrepreneurs borrow in both foreign and domestic...

We study the implications of the so-called Dutch disease in a small open economy that receives signifficant inflows of funds due to an extraordinary increase in the international price of minerals. We consider three sectors, the tradeable sector, the booming sector and the non-tradeable sector...

En este trabajo estimamos la relación de equilibrio entre el precio por m2 de las viviendas en Lima y sus fundamentos macroeconómicos desde 1998.I hasta 2013.IV. Los términos de intercambio, la cuenta corriente, el índice de imperio de la ley, la demografía y la capitalización bursátil...

During the twentieth century, the U.S. witnessed a cyclical birth rate. This in turn shaped the evolution of the ratio of middle-age to young adults, or MY ratio, which captures the stance of the population pyramid at any given time. In this paper, I study the effects of demographic change, as...