In this dissertation, I investigate three related topics on asset pricing: the consumption-based asset pricing under long-run risks and fat tails, the pricing of VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) options and the market price of risk embedded in stock returns and stock options. These three topics are...

Artículo de revista ; Reference macroeconomic scenarios for the Spanish economy after Covid-19

This paper presents fresh findings about key determinants of credit risk of commercial banks in emerging economy banking systems compared with developed economies. Australia, France, Japan and the US represent developed economies; emerging economies are India, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico and...

Several studies have commented on the emergence of a new inter- national monetary system in the post-Asian crisis years. The current international financial crisis has, however, put Bretton Woods II under considerable strain. This paper analyzes the sustainability of the pre- crisis order from...

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...

This paper presents a tool to detect the accumulation of risks in emerging market economies based on a synthetic index of 'vulnerability' for three different types of crisis (sovereign, currency and banking crises). To build the index we fi rst use a signalling approach (Auroc) to preselect the...

Las economías emergentes con metas de inflación (MI) se enfrentan a un dilema entre cumplir las condiciones teóricas de una «MI estricta», lo que implica un tipo de cambio totalmente flexible, o seguir una gestión más activa de su moneda («MI flexible»), lo que supone implementar...