This paper investigates the evolution of cryptocurrencies. By nature and essence, Bitcoin challenged and implicitly threatened central banks money and their role in the monetary system. Meanwhile, central banks have been studying and launching pilot projects on their own digital currency,...

Improved access to higher education should lead to stronger cultural integration, social mobility and higher equality ultimately paving the path for higher levels of workers’ engagement in the working place and, overall, for a wider democracy. Peru has been facing a drastic educational...

Using a Minskyian framework, we construct financial fragility indicators from a representative sample of companies listed on the Mexican stock market. Our aggregate empirical analysis shows that the financial fragility in the Mexican stock market was not a feature created by the covid-19...