The U.S. inflation rate for the period 2008-2016 was abnormally low despite the execution of a high expansive monetary policy, which has been called “the missing inflation paradox”. In this paper we estimate the missing inflation as the difference between the inflation predicted, and the...

This study measures the efficiency of public secondary education expenditure in 35 developing and developed countries using a two-step semi-parametric DEA (data envelopment analysis) methodology. First, we implement two cross-country frontier models for the 2009-2012 period: one using a physical...

Spanish Abstract: El aumento reciente en los niveles de concentración y regulación de los sistemas financieros alrededor del mundo ha revivido el debate sobre la relación entre concentración bancaria, competencia y estabilidad financiera. En este trabajo se analiza la relación entre estas...