An expansion in mortgage credit to subprime borrowers is widely believed to have been a principal driver of the 2002-06 U.S. house price boom. Contrary to this belief, we show that the house price and subprime booms occurred in different places. Counties with the largest home price appreciation...

En este trabajo se examinan los prestamos efectuados por un cartel genoves a Felipe II de España (1556-1598) bajo la perspectiva de la teoria de la deuda soberana. Se concluye que un tipo de modelos, en los que se supone que los prestamistas tienen un instrumento de penalizacion adicional al...

La naturaleza de la interaccion repetida ha sido estudiada extensamente en la literatura de juegos repetidos. Abreu (1988), Abreu, Pearce y Stacchetti (1986, 1990) y Cronshaw y Luenberger (1994) desarrollan un enfoque recursivo para caracterizar juegos repetidos centrandose en los valores...

This paper argues that learning is a natural social process that leads to the construction of meaning, which involves the creation of experiences of coherence, purpose, identity and competence. Learning that yields a coherent social context, a worthy or compelling purpose, a strong, integrated...

This paper presents a general method for computing value conrrespondences under perfect monitoring and discounting.