This paper explores the drivers of bank account ownership, which represents a main access path to financial inclusion, considered by the United Nations as a fundamental pillar of economic growth and social inclusion in its 2030 agenda for sustainable development. The objective of the current...

This article determines the conditions under which the Southern countries should act together, or separately, while negotiating with the North about climate change policy and about the conditions for future Southern engagement. The paper models the international negotiations with complete and...

I develop a framework of the buildup and outbreak of financial crises in an asymmetric information setting. In equilibrium, two distinct economic states arise endogenously: "normal times", periods of modest investment, and "booms", periods of expansionary investment. Normal times occur when the...