Bibliographic citations
Acuña, B., Meza, L. (2024). El efecto de la inestabilidad política en la aversión al riesgo: evidencia de las protestas en Perú, 2020-2022 [Universidad Andina del Cusco]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12557/6793
Acuña, B., Meza, L. El efecto de la inestabilidad política en la aversión al riesgo: evidencia de las protestas en Perú, 2020-2022 []. PE: Universidad Andina del Cusco; 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12557/6793
@misc{renati/959655,
title = "El efecto de la inestabilidad política en la aversión al riesgo: evidencia de las protestas en Perú, 2020-2022",
author = "Meza Santander, Luis Fernando",
publisher = "Universidad Andina del Cusco",
year = "2024"
}
The objective of this research is to study the effect of political instability on risk aversion, using evidence from the protests held in Peru. The research is of an applied type, with a nonexperimental design, a quantitative approach and an explanatory scope. The research uses detailed information from the National Household Survey and information from the Superintendency of Banking and Insurance (SBS). The research uses an econometric model with fixed effects at the year and region level. During the 2020-2022 period in Peru, political instability increased risk aversion. The regression analysis showed that the protests had a statistically significant positive impact (p<0.05) on the probability of having savings accounts (2.1% increase) and saving through informal means (0.2% increases and 0.9%). This suggests that people, in response to greater political uncertainty, increased their savings and reduced their debt, reflecting greater risk aversion. In addition, the worse economic conditions derived from political instability negatively affected (p<0.05) the holding of savings accounts (reducing it by 7.1%), applications for credit cards (decrease of 2.5%) and the family savings (decrease of 4.1%). Lower trust in public institutions was associated with a 4% decrease in savings account ownership (p<0.05) and a 2.3% decrease in credit card applications (p<0.05), which It also indicates greater risk aversion. However, social capital did not show a statistically significant influence on risk aversion in this context of political instability.
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