Spanish Abstract: Durante los últimos años, los bancos europeos se han enfrentado a una crisis financiera y a importantes cambios regulatorios que, en muchos casos, han puesto en peligro su viabilidad. En dicho contexto, resulta de interés evaluar el desempeño de estos bancos a través de su...

The article underlines that uncontrolled and wasteful debt is the main culprit for a economic system that not only makes inequality in the world methodically more extreme, but also systematically misdirects economic resources. Mainstream economic thinking is plainly wrong in circumstances of...

Unproductive debt and a broken banking system are identified as the main reasons why the real economies of developed countries are experiencing financial crises. Moreover, the paper identifies concentration of money and power and loosely regulated financial markets as the main drivers impeding...

When firms trade forward contracts with banks to protect foreign currency cash flows against exchange rate movements, foreign exchange risk migrates to the banking sector. We show how this migrated risk may induce systemic repercussions with severe implications for the real economy. For...

We model the super-replication of payoffs linked to a country's GDP as a stochastic linear program on a discrete time and state-space scenario tree to price GDP-linked bonds. As a by-product of the model we obtain a hedging portfolio. Using linear programming duality we compute also the risk...

For nearly half a century, the bundling of research services into commissions that paid for the execution of securities trades has been the focus of both policy discussion and academic debate. The practice whereby asset management firms make use of investor funds to cover the costs of research,...

Normal demand will return to pre-pandemic levels only when conditions for living a normal life also gradually come back. And this will not happen before a vaccine is discovered, produced and administered or a cure is in place. The article questions the wisdom of prematurely using recession...

Asset heterogeneity is widely believed to hurt the liquidity in markets of many important fixed-income assets such as corporate and municipal bonds. We develop a model in which heterogeneous assets are traded with search friction to study the impact of a quasi-consolidated (QC) trading design in...

We develop a model of dealer-intermediated over-the-counter (OTC) markets in which customers choose their relationship dealers and dealers choose their levels of expertise, thereby determining the market structure and price informativeness jointly. We find that, in general, multiple equilibria...

We model the role of dealers in information diffusion in over-the-counter (OTC) markets. A dealer maintains relationships with a network of both informed customers who trade to profit from private information pertaining to asset values and risk-averse liquidity customers who trade to meet...