Artículo de revista ; As has happened with other industries, large technology companies are increasingly present in the financial services sector. In addition to being providers of digital tools and solutions, these firms can also act as a distribution channel for goods and services that are...

Artículo de revista ; Al igual que ha ocurrido con otras industrias, las grandes compañías tecnológicas están cada vez más presentes en el sector de los servicios financieros. A su condición de proveedores de herramientas y soluciones digitales, estas empresas unen también su capacidad...

Artículo de revista ; La pandemia ha supuesto la aceleración del proceso de transformación digital de nuestra sociedad. La computación en la nube, la analítica de datos o las interacciones a distancia se han vuelto aún más esenciales como soporte de una nueva realidad industrial y...

Artículo de revista ; The pandemic has speeded up the digital transformation of Spanish society. Cloud computing, data analytics and remote interactions have become even more essential, forming the basis for a new industrial and commercial reality in which large technology companies (BigTechs)...

We consider a model that provides insight into the well-known Folk theorem in economics that when the discount factor beta is sufficiently close to 1, expropriation will never occur. Although this Folk theorem is true in our model, our perspective is different. The discount factor beta often is...

Standard economic theory suggests that capital should flow from rich countries to poor countries. However, capital has predominantly flowed to rich countries. The three essays in this dissertation attempt to explain this phenomenon. The first two essays suggest theoretical explanations for why...

There are three reasons for attempting to reach a common understanding of the responsibilities of sovereign borrowers and their lenders. First, the flow of capital to sovereign debtors is exceptionally important to the world economy. Industrialized countries rely on it to finance their budget...

The recent financial woes of Greece and other nations are reinvigorating the debate over whether to bail out defaulting countries or, instead, restructure their debt. Bailouts are expensive, in the case of Greece costing potentially hundreds of billions of euros. But a bailout was virtually...