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    • Yáñez Henríquez, José (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
      De acuerdo con los especialistas en salud la obesidad es un problema de salud serio y creciente a nivel mundial y nacional, al punto que los organismos internacionales de salud lo declaran como la epidemia mundial del ...
    • Robbins, Donald (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-06)
      Data on all persons employed in the California State Civil Service between 1977 and 1985 reveals a marked improvement in the distribution of women across income classes. An important part of this improvement appears due ...
    • López Rodríguez, Jesús (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002-12)
      The purpose of this paper is to carry out a review of the academic literature on information exchange agreements about demand in oligopolistic models and the derivation of some political consequences with respect to the ...
    • Hidalgo Campos, Pedro (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
    • Contreras, José L.; Corvalán, Alejandro (Elsevier, 2014)
      Countries whose cities host the Summer Olympic Games increase significantly their success during the competition. We study whether such effect is lasting or not. We compute the effect of hosting on the total number of ...
    • Verma, Rajkumar (IOP, 2020)
      Linguistic decision-making tools are very useful in determining the solution to real-life decision problems. In order to represent the complex fuzzy qualitative information more accurately, this paper introduces a novel ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (2008-01-03)
      This paper analyzes the e¤ects of industrial concentration on bidding behavior and hence, on the seller s expected proceeds. These e¤ects are studied under the CIPI model, an a¢ liated value set-up that nests a variety ...
    • Seghir, Abdelkrim; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Elsevier, 2011)
      Without requiring either financial survival assumptions or linear spanning conditions over financial spaces, we prove equilibrium existence in an abstract incomplete market economy with endogenous restricted financial ...
    • Berga, Dolors; Bergantiños, Gustavo; Massó, Jordi; Neme, Alejandro (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2003-12)
      We consider the problem of a society whose members must choose from a finite set of alternatives. After knowing the chosen alternative, members may reconsider their membership in the society by either staying or exiting. ...
    • Galetovic Potsch, Alexander (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1993-12)
      This note is a brief introduction to the strategic theory of inflation initiated by Barro and Gordon (1983a). The discussion is organized around the question of which are the causes of inflation according to the strategic ...
    • Berndt, Ernest R. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)
      In this essay I provide a wide-ranging overview of recent research linking medical treatments to productivity and ability to function. The studies that examine how do illness and medical treatments affect absenteeism, ...
    • Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010-12)
      This paper develops a framework for evaluating the importance of the arrival of new information for forecasting, estimation, and decision making. By fusing known and recently developed statistical tests and concepts, the ...
    • Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo (BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS, 2006-05)
      This paper analyzes whether or not the econometric methods usually applied to test for absolute convergence have provided this hypothesis a "fair" chance. I show that traditional (absolute and conditional) convergence tests ...
    • Peña, Julio; Núñez Errázuriz, Javier (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-06)
      For more than 50 years Chilean marine industrial fisheries (MIF) were ruled by a criterion of “historical rights” in the issuance of fishing permits. This form of regulation was basically aimed at controlling access to the ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Panagariya, Arvind (American Economic Association, 1992)
    • Clarke, Damian Charles; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana Domeque, Climent (Wiley, 2021)
      A large body of evidence documents the educational and labour market returns to birth weight, which are reflected in investments in large social safety net programmes targeting birth weight and early life health. However, ...
    • Accinelli, Elvio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-06)
      Our concern in this paper is to obtain conditions for the uniqueness of equilibria, with, commodity bundles as consumption patterns which depend on the state of the world. In the first section we consider an economy with ...
    • Hofer, RP (Fondo de Cultura Economicafcebib@infoacc.com, 2020)
    • Rodríguez Perales, Arturo; Yue, Heng (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios., 2008)
      In this study we examine earnings management around open market share repurchases. We examine two hypotheses: managerial opportunism and market response, both of which predict that managers will manage earnings down ...
    • Fuentes, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 1995-12)
      This paper highligts a long-standing debate on whether openess does help economic efficiency in the light of the data for chilean manufacturing industry. To do so, we analyze the TFP growth during the period of the abrupt ...