Los efectos agregados y sectoriales de la inversión pública dependen fundamentalmente de la interacción entre la elasticidad de la producción con respecto al capital público y los vínculos de la cadena de suministro. Enseñamos este hecho a través de una red de producción neokeynesiana....

Tighter money-laundering regulations in offshore financial havens may inadvertently spur incentives to launder money domestically. Our study exploits regulations targeting financially based money laundering in Caribbean jurisdictions to uncover the creation of front companies in the United...

Proceeds from illicit activities percolate into the legal economy through several channels. We exploit international regulations targeting money laundering via the financial sector to identify the flows of “dirty money” into legitimate establishments: business-based money laundering...

Firms file for reorganization bankruptcy (Chapter 11) to restructure, not only debt, but also, labor contracts. In this environment, pro-creditor bankruptcy reforms face a trade-off: they increase recovery values of successful reorganizations but suffocate managers' incentives to restructure...

Proceeds from illicit activities percolate into the legal economy through several channels. We exploit international regulations targeting money laundering via the financial sector to identify the flows of “dirty money” into legitimate establishments: business-based money laundering (BBML)....