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...

Intro -- Contemporary Topics in Finance -- Contents -- 1 Contemporary Topics in Finance: A Collection of Literature Surveys -- References -- 2 A Survey of the International Evidence and Lessons Learned about Unconventional Monetary Policies: Is a 'New Normal' in our Future? -- 1. Introduction --...

This article remarks that the activities of the international capital flows and the foreign direct investment increase, influence the growth process of countries. The economies attach more importance to these two factors in each passing day. On the other hand, the exposure degrees of host...

This paper examines how high cost mortgage lending varies by race and ethnicity. It uses a unique panel data that matches a representative sample of mortgages in seven large metropolitan markets between 2004 and 2008 to public records of housing transactions and proprietary credit reporting...

More than half of the variation across U.S. school districts in real K-12 education expenditures per student is due to differences between, rather than within, states. I study the welfare implications of redistribution of education expenditures by the Federal government, using an analytically...

We assess the consequences of substantially increasing the marginal tax rate on U.S. top earners using a human capital model. We nd that (1) the peak of the model Laer curve occurs at a 52 percent top tax rate, (2) if human capital were exogenous, then the top of the Laer curve would occur at a...

We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the individual birth records from the national registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the...

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

Countries around the world are adopting market-oriented school choice reforms. Evidence shows that they affect both student and teacher sorting across school sectors. Previous studies have analyzed student and teacher sorting in isolation from each other. This is the first paper to unify...

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...