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Voluntary contributions in a system with uncertain returns: a case of systemic risk
(Springer, 2019-12-06)
This paper investigates systemic risk that emerges from the interplay between uncertain returns to individual actions, uncertainty on others’ behavior and all this filtered through individual attitudes toward risk. We ...
Habituation does not rescue depletion: Two tests of the ego-depletion effect
(Elsevier, 2018-11-08)
The recent literature on ego depletion and self-control is plagued with failed replications. It has been argued that publication bias might have inflated estimated effect sizes. Doubts go so far that the very existence of ...
Taming financial systemic risk: models, instruments and early warning indicators
(Springer, 2019-12-30)
In recent decades, most advanced and developing economies have suffered—or are still suffering—from profound and repeated crises. The literature has reflected on the determinants of these perturbations by placing particular ...
Exports and governance: Is the Middle East and North Africa region different?
(Wiley, 2018)
This paper aims to analyse whether a higher quality of economic governance rewards economic performance and facilitates the integration of the Middle East and North Africa region into the world economy. A gravity model of ...
Should I default on my mortgage even if I can pay? Experimental evidence
(Elsevier, 2019-08-21)
We study strategic default in the laboratory, i.e., in a controlled experiment. Subjects are initially endowed with a house and a mortgage (we use neutral wording in the experiment), and must decide at each period in which ...
Flujos de remesas y COVID-19 en países de América Latina. Reflexiones al inicio de la pandemia
(Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, 2020-10)
Las remesas que los inmigrantes envían a su país de origen contribuyen a alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS), permitiendo que muchas familias salgan de la pobreza.
Dichos envíos han disminuido en la ...
What Explains Indirect Exports of Goods and Services in Eastern Europe and Central Asia?
(Springer, 2018-05)
This paper investigates the determinants of indirect exporting, using firm-
level data for 27 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Indirect exporting
depends on a combination of fixed and variable trade cost ...
Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison
(Elsevier, 2020-01)
Despite the economic and social significance of crime reduction and criminals’ rehabilitation, research evaluating the effects of incarceration on behavior is surprisingly scarce. We conduct an experiment with 105 prison ...
Informal, formal institutions and credit: complements or substitutes?
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-08)
This paper analyses the relationship between informal institutions measured by social trust and the provision of private credit. Research on the trust–finance relationship abounds, although most of it is confined to the ...
Goals and guesses as reference points: a field experiment on student performance
(Springer, 2022-06)
In this paper, we study overconfidence and goal-setting in academic performance, with and without monetary incentives. Students enrolled in a microeconomics course were offered the possibility of setting their own target ...