Grace Armijos Bravo

Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales | IAEN

To fight Covid-19, governments have imposed restrictions on personal mobility and social interactions which may have negative consequences in the labor market. These consequences may be different across demographic groups particularly for female workers. We examine whether the policy that restricted operations in some economic sectors affected form...

Reducing entry costs like bureaucratic procedures might be useful tool for stimulating new firm creation in a country. We exploit an unexpected reform that targets the physical (face-to-face) service channel, offering a decline in these types of costs in the firm creation process in Ecuador. To do this, we rely on a novel and underexplored administ...

Islamophobia has increased in the last years, in part, due to terrorist attacks perpetrated by jihadist groups. This phenomenon might be a source of stress, being particularly problematic for pregnant (Muslim) women. We examine how stress generated by the 2017 Catalonia (Spain) attacks affected the health of newborns whose mothers are from a Muslim...

Purpose Banks are institutions that inject money in the economy and help to boost it when there are problems in some markets, especially in productive sectors. In this way, analysing the competition in this sector is an important tool for policymakers as non-competitive behaviour could affect the financial system and economy. The purpose of this pa...

We investigate the determinants of the use of long-term care services provided at home as well as the degree of horizontal inequity that may exist in the use of this type of services for a sample of dependent individuals living in Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Italy and Spain, using data from 2006/2007. The results suggest that there is not an equi...

Este documento evalúa empíricamente las condiciones de competencia en el sector de la banca privada en Ecuador de 2000 a 2015. Primero, medimos la competencia en el sector de la banca privada, utilizando el estadístico H de Panzar-Rosse por la ecuación de ingresos totales; aplicamos POLS, efectos fijos de año, efectos fijos de bancos y efectos alea...

This study empirically analyzes the degree of competition in the insurance industry segmented in life and non-life market in Ecuador from 2001 to 2016, we use the Panzar and Rosse methodology to assess the competitive conditions, we apply POLS, year fixed effects, firm fixed effects and random effects, then we determine if the market is in long run...