Unlike outside investors, controlling groups have the option to trade on inside information and can exercise it at the expense of outside investors. This paper computes informed trading probabilities (ITPs) for the universe of liquid stocks from seven Latin American countries, trading both at...

This paper develops a theoretical model based on stylized facts regarding regulation and performance of the oil and gas sectors in Argentina after the fall of Convertibility. Regarding performance, facts include an important drop in domestic production and investment, as well as a reversal in...

This paper answers the question of whether non-strategic default improves welfare, not only for borrowers with uncertain future income but also for lenders with certain future endowments, relative to no default. We show that the answer is a¢ rmative for a positive-Lebesgue-measure set of...

In this note I provide a notion of a credible devaluation policy in the context of the Chang and Velasco (2000) model. I show that when the long term asset is illiquid enough a flexible exchange rate policy is credible. It is also shown that there exists a non-trivial range for the liquidation...

Modern financial sectors consist of banks, asset markets and a central bank. This paper builds a model where these institutions provide different financial services, and their interaction supports efficient allocations. When one institution is missing equilibria are, by construction,...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) A diferencia de los inversionistas externos, los grupos de control tienen la opción de realizar transacciones basadas en información privilegiada y pueden ejercerla a costa de los inversionistas externos. En este trabajo se calculan las probabilidades...