- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Taxation and Compliance Studies
- Business, Innovation, and Economy
- International Business and FDI
- Firm Innovation and Growth
- Insurance and Financial Risk Management
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Working Capital and Financial Performance
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
- Housing Market and Economics
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Family Business Performance and Succession
UCLouvain
2022-2025
Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública
2021
KU Leuven
2021
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the main determinants insurance profitability on life and non-life segments obtain which variables affect in each market Ecuadorian sector. Design/methodology/approach authors use a large panel data set with financial information from 2001 2017 estimate through corrected standard errors regression. Findings found that net premiums, technical reserves, capital ratio score efficiency are micro-determinants sector, whereas include also claim...
Abstract In developing countries, the evidence regarding direct and indirect effects of FDI on economic financial performance at firm level is mixed. To contribute to this literature, we provide empirical firm’s performance, using return assets (ROA), gross revenues growth rate as measures. We examine private formal enterprise sector in Ecuador from 2007 2018. Our identification strategy relies use Generalized Method Moments (GMM) methodology for dynamic panel data which allows us control...
Abstract The construction sector is one of the most important sectors for economic development due, among other reasons, to productive chains that it generates. This paper presents an analysis determinants total factor productivity (TFP) in Ecuadorian during period 2007–2018. In first stage, we estimate a production function using Wooldridge ( Economics Letters, 2009, 104 , 112–114) estimator correct simultaneous determination inputs and firm unobserved productivity. second analyze main TFP....
Tax reforms involve welfare changes that need to be consistently measured. Pivotal parameter in such empirical efforts is the Elasticity of Taxable Income (ETI). This paper contributes estimation ETI developing economies. We rely on a research design based Ecuador's Reformatory Law Equity 2007. By using personal income tax administrative records, we show that, average, (net-of-MTR) aggregated gross around -0.23. Also, find evidence heterogeneous responses policy shocks through Marginal...