equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in …

tools in a standard insurance demand theory environment. We concentrate on the problem of basis risk versus transaction cost …

exploit two reforms in Argentina that dramatically expanded and subsequently reduced turnover tax withholding by firms …

for Argentina in the period 1875-2006. There are two conclusions: a) the welfare cost of Argentine risk has been huge: for …

gives an economic analysis of the institutional arrangements on the market for natural disaster insurances focusing on … market for natural disaster insurances, in the way that it acts as an obstacle for the proper diffusion and therefore the …

We present a theory to explain government procrastination as a consequence of its present-bias resulting from the … theory predicts that a government with a more strongly predominant party tends to procrastinate less. …

through the whole world during the last decades. This is also the case in Argentina where in the middle of a deep recession … negligible in terms of the sector’s turnover. Argentina seems to have some advantages to exploit in order to make significant … government support. None the less, SIS firms in Argentina have been basically tied to one particular segment of the domestic …