This paper analyzes the short-term impact of the lockdown policies implemented to stop the spread of the COVID-19 on the Ecuadorian financial system. We use a regression discontinuity in time (RDiT) design jointly with official data. Results show an overall decrease in total deposits (-3.4%) as...

Purpose This paper aims to determine causal relationships between the level of productive credit, real deposits and money demand - all of them in real terms - and Gross National Product between 2006 and 2020. Design/methodology/approach The vector autoregressive technique (VAR) was used, where...

This document evaluates the impact of electricity subsidies on electricity consumption in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. To do this, this paper uses a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to estimate the impact of the social tariff coverage policy on household electricity expenditure....