En este trabajo se analizan modelos alternativos de clasificación soberana emergente. Aunque un número pequeño de indicadores económicos fundamentales explica las clasificaciones de manera razonablemente precisa, las variaciones de esos indicadores económicos fundamentales se pueden...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) El mercado de los bancos o los riesgos de las operaciones han aumentado apreciablemente en los últimos años, principalmente como resultado del crecimiento de los activos líquidos en los balances generales de los bancos y el aumento de las actividades...

The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...

El dinero se utiliza como una reserva de valor, un medio de intercambio y una unidad de cuenta. Los más recientes análisis sobre la elección de moneda en un escenario internacional se han enfocado en la denominación de reservas—el rol de reserva de valor. Sin embargo, la información...

Argentina is a federal country and hence, although laws are national and the central bank has national jurisdiction as a regulator of the financial system, the 24 Argentine provinces have independent judicial authority. In this paper we analyze how variations in the effectiveness of the legal...

Why would bilateral donors intermediate aid through a multilateral and not extend aid directly? This paper suggests a trade-off: multiple bilateral donors for each recipient may imply coordination and strategic problems but intermediating through a multilateral may dilute individual donor...

This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are themselves explained by a small number of world factors. On the other hand, global financial...

Money is used as a store of value, a medium of exchange and a unit of account. Most recent analyses of currency choice in an international setting have focused on the denomination of reserves—the store of value role. However, public data are only aggregate and exclude several countries. This...

If rating agencies add no new information to markets, their actions are not a public policy concern. But as rating changes may be anticipated, testing whether ratings add value is not straightforward. This paper argues that ratings and spreads are both noisy signals of fundamentals and suggest...

Banks` market or `trading` risks have increased noticeably over the past years, largely as a result of the growth of liquid assets on banks` balance sheets and the increase in banks` off-balance sheet activities. Well-publicized bank failures and significant capital losses have focussed further...