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    • Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Campo, María Luz (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010-06)
      This paper analyzes wage negotiation between firms and unions when crossparticipation exists at ownership level. We consider two shareholders and two firms: one firm is jointly owned by the two shareholders and the other ...
    • Fu, Chao; Grau Veloso, Nicolás Andrés; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge Enrique (Wiley, 2022)
      We build and estimate a dynamic model of teenagers' choices of schooling and crime, incorporating four factors that may contribute to the different paths taken by different teenagers: heterogeneous endowments, unequal ...
    • Villegas Pinuer, Francisco Javier; Andreu, Joan Llonch; López Belbeze, Pilar; Valenzuela Fernández, Leslier Maureen (MDPI, 2021)
      Waste generation is a critical factor in global environmental degradation, where SMEs have been historically relevant yet underestimated. This study covers the issue of the disconnection between the normative and SMEs ...
    • Gómez-Lobo Echeñique, Andrés; Contreras Guajardo, Dante (Oxford University Press, 2003)
      Analysis of two water subsidy schemes--a means-tested subsidy in Chile and a geographically targeted subsidy in Colombia--shows that the means-tested system is better able to identify poor households than the geographically ...
    • Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo; Hermann Anguita, Jorge (2007)
      This paper presents a robust finding for the relationship between money growth and inflation in Chile: inflation causes (precedes) money and not the other way around. This result holds irrespectively of the way in which ...
    • Seghir, Abdelkrim; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Springer, 2008)
      We develop a general equilibrium model of wealth transfers in the presence of uncertain lifetimes and default. Without introducing exogenous debt constraints, agents are allowed to make collateral-backed promises at any ...
    • Yusoff, Binyamin; Merigó Lindahl, José; Ceballos, David; Peláez, José I. (Wiley, 2018)
      This paper focuses on the aggregation operations inthe group decision-making model based on the conceptof majority opinion. The weighted-selective aggregatedmajority-OWA (WSAM-OWA) operator is proposed as anextension of ...
    • Gómez, Manuel A. (Universidad de Chile Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010-06)
      This paper quantifies cost of consumption externalities in an endogenous growth model with habit formation. Agent´s utility depends on both current consumption and a reference consumption level determined by economy-wide ...
    • Agosín Trumper, Manuel (Oxford University Press, 2001)
      This paper examines the recent saving performance of the Chilean economy in the light of its long-run (1940-96) trends. The first conclusion that can be derived from the data is that most of the increase in private saving ...
    • Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Eterovic, Nicolas A.; Paredes, Valentina (Elsevier, 2018)
      The economic literature has attributed part of the increase in government expenditure over the 20th century to female voting. This is puzzling, considering that the political science literature has documented that women ...
    • Sanfuentes Astaburuaga, Matías; Valenzuela, Francisco; Castillo, Alejandro (SAGE, 2020)
      This article addresses how shared forms of leadership can activate resilient organizing to cope with catastrophic events by examining the case of the 33 Chilean miners' rescue who survived confinement at 600 m below ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Sepúlveda, Paulina; Bustos, Sebastián (WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC, 2010-12)
      The voucher scheme introduced in Chile in 1981 allows for-profit private subsidized schools to choose their students. The objective of this article is to present evidence of this practice and examine its relationship with ...
    • Gómez-Lobo Echeñique, Andrés (2007)
      In this paper a model is presented based on ideas borrowed from the job search and price dispersion literature to characterise the pricing equilibrium of a competitive bus market in a more general setting than previously ...
    • Maquieira Villanueva, Carlos (Jorge Gregoire, 1994)
      El articulo analiza tres hipotesis, señal de flujo de caja, flujo de caja libre y estructura de propiedad como explicacion alternativa a la decisión de inicio de dividendos de empresas cuyas acciones son transadas por ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Palacios, Amparo (Springer, 2014)
      This paper examines the role of fiscal policy, trade and energy taxes on environmental quality in Europe using disaggregated data at the monitoring station level for the 12 richest European countries spanning the period ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Kehoe, Timothy J.; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa; Mu Yi, Kei (The American Economic Association, 2004)
      For the OECD as whole, as well as for the U.S., manufacturing exports have been rising, while manufacturing output (both expressed as a share of total GDP) has been falling. We examine the prevalence of this puzzling fact ...
    • Mantel, Rolf R. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      The usual procedure in the field of optimal growth consists in maximizing a (discounted or not) sum of instantaneous utilities, called welfare. Such an optimality criterion implies that preferences are independent over ...
    • Treviño, Ernesto; Valenzuela Barros, Juan Pablo; Villalobos, Cristóbal (Elsevier, 2016)
      This paper analyzes the segregation within schools in Chile, looking at the related institutional factors and the effect that this process has on students' academic performance. To analyze the relationship between institutional ...
    • Velitchkova, Ana (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      This study proposes a micro-institutional theory of political violence, according to which citizens’ participation in political violence is partially an outcome of tight coupling of persons’ practices and self-identific ...
    • Schmidt-Hebbel Dunker, Klaus; Servén, Luis (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      The world's average saving rate has declined for the last two decades but country saving rates exhibit a large dispersion, especially in developing regions. While in a small number of developing countries saving has risen ...