Browsing by Author "López Vega, Ramón"
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Barbier, Edward B.; López Vega, Ramón; Hochard, Jacob P. (Springer, 2016)This paper develops a model to capture the key features of poverty, credit constraints and resource management faced by poor rural households. We assume that, due to the existence of asymmetric information and moral hazard, ...
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López Vega, Ramón (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1988-04)Los problemas de desempleo e ingresos bajos de un sector de la fuerza laboral empleada ha sido de gran interés, tanto en países desarrollados como en vías de desarrollo. Se usan comúnmente tres hipótesis para explicar el ...
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Andersen, Dana C.; López Vega, Ramón (Blackwell, 2019)This paper explores the role of tax policy in shaping incentives for executive effort(labor supply) and rent seeking within the firm. We develop a theoretical model thatdistinguishes between effort and rent-seeking responses ...
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Palacios López, Amparo; López Vega, Ramón (Taylor & Francis, 2015)This paper hypothesises that labour and credit market imperfections - by discouraging off-farm income-generating activities and restricting access to inputs, respectively - affect female farm productivity more deeply ...
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López Vega, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice (Elsevier, 2013)This paper studies a two-sector economy in which one of the sectors (the “commodity sector”) depends in part on the exploitation of a renewable natural resource and examines the issue in an economy-wide context where ...
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López Vega, Ramón (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)It is shown that long-held views on the links between minimum wages and human capital arising from on-the-job training are not in general valid in a general equilibrium context. Of the three propositions obtained from ...
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Gutiérrez C., Pablo; López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Elsevier, 2015)We develop a method that allows transforming retained business profits in a particular year into business-accrued capital gains of the same year. These capital gains thus estimated can be simply added to other sources ...
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López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)The inhability of the agricultural sector to maintain the relative income level of the population devoted to the sector has been called the “farm problem” in the literature. The analytical wok on the farm problem” has been ...
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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 ...