We exploit the timing of cell phone coverage in rural Peru to investigate its effects on economic development. We exploit information regarding the location, date of installation and technical characteristics of cell phone towers in order to construct coverage patterns at the village level from...

An extensive literature documents linkages between early nutritional deficiencies and reduced cognitive ability, educational attainment and, ultimately, lower labor market performance. Few of these studies, however, have shown these correlations to be genuinely causal. We reexamine the nutrition...

El objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar el efecto hoja de balance en la economía peruana. Para ello, se utilizó información contable, para el periodo 1998-2009, de 114 empresas del sector real. En una primera etapa, se estimaron diversas especificaciones sin incluir variables de control...

Se estudia la relación empírica entre el crecimiento económico y la pobreza monetaria en el Perú durante la década que se inicia en el 2000. Se reportan evidencias que son consistentes con la hipótesis de que el crecimiento económico habría favorecido más a la población en situación...

This paper evaluates the qualitative and quantitative implications of financial dedollarization of firms' liabilities on real aggregates in a small open economy model. We extend the standard Cespedes, Chang, and Velasco (2004) model by allowing entrepreneurs borrow in both foreign and domestic...

This paper presents a partial equilibrium characterization of the credit market in an economy with partial …financial dollarization. Financial frictions, in the form of costly state veri…cation and banking regulation restrictions, are introduced and their impact on lending and deposit interest...

We build a small open economy, real business cycle model with labor market frictions to evaluate the role of employment protection in shaping business cycles in emerging economies. The model features matching frictions and an endogenous selection effect by which inefficient jobs are destroyed in...

The slope of the sticky information Phillips curve proposed by Mankiw and Reis (2002) is based on the degree of information rigidity on the part of firms. Carroll (2003) uses an epidemiology model of expectations and finds evidence for the U.S. of a one-year lag in the transmission of...

La disparidad de las tasas de interés activas entre segmentos y los niveles de estas tasas con relación a las tasas de interés de los depósitos, son dos características del mercado de créditos peruano que mayor discusión generan. Para explicar las razones subyacentes, este estudio analiza...

I describe a simple new-keynesian macroeconomic model for a small open and partially dollarized economy, which closely resembles the Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) developed at the Central Bank of Peru (Vega et al. (2009)). Then I use Bayesian techniques and quarterly data from Peru to...