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    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      Este trabajo explora el impacto de la alfabetización financiera sobre el acceso a deuda, los niveles de endeudamiento y la morosidad de los hogares en Chile. Se encuentra que los niveles de alfabetización financiera son ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; González Tissinetti, Aldo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      Este trabajo realiza una comparación de precios de medicamentos entre las seis principales economías de América Latina. Se emplea un modelo econométrico de panel con efecto fijo por país que controla por un variado ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Jara Bertín, Mauricio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      Prior literature argues that, given the existence of information asymmetries and agency costs, higher competition may increase financial constraints by reducing banks’ incentives to build lending relationships. Using a ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; García Marín, Álvaro; Ilabaca, Sebastián (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper examines the local economic impact on poverty of large increases in metal-mining products prices in Chile. Using household data from 1998 to 2009, and exploiting differences in municipalities’ exposure to ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; García Marín, Álvaro; Ilabaca, Sebastián (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-07)
      This paper examines the local economic impact of large increases in metal-mining product prices on poverty in Chile. Using household data from 1998 to 2013 and exploiting differences in municipalities’ exposure to price ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; González Tissinetti, Aldo (Oxford University Press, 2020)
      Competition is considered as a key driver of productivity growth. However, the empirical evidence on its impact is scant in developing countries. Using information from manufacturing plants for the period 1995–2007, we ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; González Tissinetti, Aldo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-09)
      Recent evidence for several countries shows a decline in TFP growth. However, there is not much evidence for developing countries and much less regarding the impact of competition in product markets. In this paper, we ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Claro, Sebastián (Banco Central de Chile, 2008)
      We use detailed Chilean plant-level data from 1990 to 2000 to study the impact of Chinese import competition in manufacturing industries. We study whether China’s imports have been associated with a downsizing of ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Figueroa Z, María Pía; Palma E., Macarena (Naciones Unidas, 2009)
      En este trabajo se estudian los factores determinantes de las exportaciones de manufacturas a China. Utilizando datos de 79 países correspondientes al período 1990-2006 y estimaciones de ecuaciones de gravedad, se ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)
      Este artículo analiza los determinantes del desempeño exportador de las firmas manufactureras chilenas en el período 1990-1996. El principal objetivo es identificar aquellos factores que influencian la permanencia de las ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Jara, Mauricio; Pombo, Carlos (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      This paper examines the relation between firm investment ratios and institutional blockholders for a sample of 6,300 publicly traded firms in 16 large emerging markets for the 2004–2016 period. Results show that independent, ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Campusano, Rolando (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)
      Using the Climate Investment Survey from the World Bank, we analyze the effect of competition on technological innovation in developing countries. We deal with endogeneity of competition by using the interaction between ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Poniachik Calderón, Dan (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-04)
      Over the last five decades a growing number of governments in developed and developing countries have implemented targeting policies to increase the R&D to GDP ratio. However, until now there have been few attempts either ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Canales, Mario (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-09)
      La mayoría de la literatura previa sobre obstáculos a la innovación se ha centrado en el impacto de las restricciones financieras. En este trabajo, utilizando la 8va Encuesta de Innovación en Chile, se analiza ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Canales, Mario (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      La mayoría de la literatura previa sobre obstáculos a la innovación se ha centrado en el impacto de las restricciones financieras. En este trabajo, utilizando la 8va Encuesta de Innovación en Chile, se analiza el efecto ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Grazzi, Matteo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      The long-run economic performance of Latin America has been unsatisfactory especially in comparison with other emerging economies, which have been able to “catch up” with developed countries. The historically low innovation ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Görg, Holger (Elsevier, 2009)
      This paper investigates three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Vergara Dominguez, Damian (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      This paper empirically addresses the relationship between natural resource abundance and educational attainment. Using information for Chilean municipalities between 2000 and 2013, we exploit aggregate changes in natural ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Navarro, Lucas (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)
      A recent theoretical literature has given relevance to the study of the relationship between product mix changes and firm productivity. In this paper, taking advantage of a rich dataset for manufacturing plants in Chile ...