Scale-free tails in colombian financial indexes : a primer

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
812
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C46, C58, G32
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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