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López Vega, Ramón (Wiley, 1985)In 1973, Diewert proposed the use of various Flexible Functional Forms (FFF) for profit functions. Since then, the use of FFF specifications for profit functions in empirical production analysis has become increasingly ...
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López Vega, Ramón; Yoon, Sang W. (Elsevier, 2020)This paper examines the feasibility of environmentally sustainable growth in a competitive market economy assuming various types of technological changes affecting pollution emissions and ultimately climate change. We ...
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López Vega, Ramón; Won Yoon, Sang (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The standard theoretical literature has shown that environmental sustainability and positive economic growth are not incompatible as long as environmental policies are optimal. However, in showing this result earlier ...
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López Vega, Ramón; Panagariya, Arvind (Elsevier, 1991)This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of temporary import and export quotas in a two-period optimization model imposing much weaker restrictions on preferences and production technologies than in the existing ...
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The environment as a factor of production: the effects of economic growth and trade liberalization López Vega, Ramón (Elsevier, 1994)Economic growth and trade liberalization decrease the degradation of natural resources if and only if producers internalize their stock feedback effects on production. For environmental factors without stock effects on ...
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Gardner, Bruce L.; López Vega, Ramón (Oxford University Press, 1996)Interest-rate subsidies have been used to stimulate commodity stockholding, with the intention of stabilizing prices. However, reductions in price variability can be achieved at less government cost using a direct storage ...
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López Vega, Ramón (Elsevier, 2003)The persistence of growth and its equity and environmental effects heavily depend on the composition of asset investments. Physical, human, and natural capital are the key assets behind the development process. Market ...
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Gutiérrez C., Pablo; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; López Vega, Ramón (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)We introduce the concept of weak tax neutrality which establishes that the relationship between the tax rate and the user cost of capital may be non-monotonic. We show that most existing corporate tax systems allow for ...
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López Vega, Ramón (World Bank Group, 1998)Expansion of cultivated land diminishes the extent of forestlands or reduces the length of fallow periods and, hence, reduces the amount of natural vegetation. The increase in land under cultivation has a direct output-increasing ...
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Sturla Zerene, Gino; López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Accorsi O., Simón (Naciones Unidas, 2018)This article estimates the economic rents received by the 10 mines that comprise Chile’s large-scale private-sector copper-mining industry. The methodology used produces a conservative calculation and includes two ...
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López Vega, Ramón; Rodrik, Dani (Elsevier, 1990)Our model demonstrates that when imports are predominantly intermediate inputs, as in most developing countries, import restrictions cannot be always relied on to generate an improvement in the trade balance. Such restrictions ...