Uruguay implemented an ambitious financial inclusion program that included a fiscal stimulus through VAT rebates and subsidies for point of sale (POS) adoption. One of its main provisions banned cash payment of wages and social benefits and forced financial institutions to open wage-accounts...

Why do firms sometimes choose to undertake their R&D by financing start-up companies, while other times they do it in their internal labs? We present a model where the choice of R&D is driven by information asymmetries on the quality of the project between the corporate venture capitalist and...

Job mobility is an outstanding characteristic of most labor markets. However, most of the economic literature focuses on occupational choice and not whether this mobility implies movements to ``better or worse'' firms. One reason for this research gap is the difficulty in establishing if the new...

Using data on Uruguayan adolescents, we estimate peer effects in risk attitudes. Relative risk aversion is elicited in an experimental setting. Identification is based on parents not being able to choose the class within the school of their choice. After controlling for school-grade fixed effect...