In this doctoral dissertation we investigate the capital structure of superstar firms and how the same forces behind their creation differentially affect peer industry firms. Using a quintile distribution of industry ...

This paper studies the importance and impact of price and wage rigidities on economic fluctuations in Puerto Rico. To this end, a DSGE model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition is estimated with macroeconomic ...

This study measures the impact of oil supply and demand shock, and global aggregate demand shock on Puerto Rico’s economic growth. This was achieved using a four-variable Structural Vector Autoregression. Through the impulse ...