Various markets, particularly NASDAQ, have been under pressure from regulators and market participants to introduce call auctions for their opening and closing periods. We investigate the performance of call markets at the open and close from a unique natural experiment provided by the...

Creditors of a distressed borrower face a coordination problem. Even if the fundamentals are sound, fear of premature foreclosure by others may lead to pre-emptive actions, undermining the project. Recognition of this problem lies behind corporate bankruptcy provisions across the world, and it...

We document an apparently widespread violation of dominance in the horse-racing betting market in the UK, and use the systematic variation in the incidence of this violation to estimate the consumption value of gambling. Betting-shop gamblers in the UK face a tax on gambling of 10%, but have the...

Informal employment is a reality for roughly two-thirds of economically active youth in urban Egypt, and it has been argued to be correlated with poverty, poor working conditions, and few opportunities for advancement. This essay analyzes whether informal employment rewards job qualification...

Over the recent decades researchers in academia and central banks have developed early warning systems (EWS) designed to warn policy makers of potential future economic and financial crises. These EWS are based on diverse approaches and empirical models. In this paper we compare the performance...

Artículo de revista ; The technologies underlying money and payment systems are evolving rapidly. Both the emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and rapid advances in traditional centralised systems are moving the technological horizon of money and payments. These trends are embodied...

Artículo de revista ; The technologies underlying money and payment systems are evolving rapidly. Both the emergence of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and rapid advances in traditional centralised systems are moving the technological horizon of money and payments. These trends are embodied...

Las instituciones financieras globales desempeñan un papel importante en la canalización de fondos entre países y, por lo tanto, en la transmisión de la política monetaria de un país a otro. En este trabajo, estudiamos si dicha transmisión internacional depende de los modelos de negocio...

In this paper we investigate whether or not mutual guarantee consortia (MGC), a financial institution well developed in Italy, alleviate the difficulties that Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) face when they ask for a bank loan. We find that the probability of a small firm affiliated to a MGC...

En este trabajo se estudia la relación entre la financiación de sociedades no financieras con bonos denominados en dólares y las oportunidades de financiación sin riesgo de tipo de cambio en dicha divisa. Estas oportunidades surgen cuando la base es positiva, es decir, cuando resulta más...