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    • 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 ...
    • Cifuentes, Arturo; Charlín, Ventura (Incisive Media, 2016)
      We analyze the Solvency II standard formula (SF) for capital risk aggregation in relation to the treatment of operational risk (OR) capital. We show that the SF implicitly assumes that the correlation between OR and the ...
    • Gresenz, Carole Roan; Auerbach, David I.; Duarte, Fabian (2013)
      Objective. To provide a conceptual framework and to assess the availability of empirical data for supply-side microsimulation modeling in the context of health care. Data Sources. Multiple secondary data sources, including ...
    • Nahuelhual, L.; Saavedra, G.; Henríquez, F.; Benra, F.; Vergara, X.; Perugache, C.; Hasen, F. (Elsevier, 2018-08)
      Limited evidence exists on the a priori feasibility of implementing ecosystem services (ES) governance arrangements, to simultaneously ensure nature conservation, human wellbeing, and equity. Using a multiscale institutional ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (Elsevier, 2012)
      Target firms often face a takeover threat from raiders with prior stakes in its ownership (toeholds). Previous literature has shown that, when takeovers are modeled as standard auctions, toeholds induce more aggressive ...
    • Mantel, Rolf R. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      In the field of optimal growth theory, since Ramsey's time it is frequent to maximize a welfare function consisting of the discounted sum of instantaneous utilities. Such an optimality criterion implies that preferences ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino; Portilla, Yolanda (Elsevier, 2020)
      We model the agency problem existing in an entrepreneurial firm between its founder and an outside investor and characterize the optimal corporate governance design. The analysis describes the relationship between two ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (Springer, 2020)
      We characterize the optimal selling mechanism when bidders have ownership links among them (crossholdings). This mechanism discriminates against bidders who enjoy a value comparative advantage resulting from the extent to ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (2008)
      This paper characterizes how a target rm should be sold when raiders have prior stakes in its ownership (toeholds). We nd that the optimal mechanism needs to be implemented by a non-standard auction which imposes a ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Guillén, Montserrat; Sarabia, José M. (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of aggregation operators between the minimum and the maximum. This paper analyzes the use of the OWA in the variance and ...