Many financial markets are populated by dealers, who commit to participate regularly in the market, and non-dealers, who do not commit. This market structure introduces a trade-off between competition and volatility, which we study using data on Canadian treasury auctions. We document a...

In this paper we provide a formal test of Barro's tax-smoothing model, using Spanish data covering the period 1850-2022. First, we found that the tax-tilting component has been very important for the Spanish government and is a symptom of the existence of a public deficit bias that has existed...

Part I. Fundamentals -- Chapter 1. Reprise – The Five Phases of Restructuring -- Chapter 2. Debt Distress in the EMs -- Chapter 3. Ten Observations - Corporate Debt Restructuring in the EMs -- Part II. Application -- Chapter 4. Case 1 – Horizon Bank -- Chapter 5. Case 2 – Global...