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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)We develop a two period general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets and differential information. Making endogenous the traditional informational restriction on consumption, we allow agents to obtain ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Este artículo estudia el impacto del ingreso de la línea aérea GOL, ocurrida a fines de 2006, en las rutas que conectan que conectan Santiago de Chile con cuatro principales ciudades de Sudamérica. GOL es una aerolínea ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)La equidad social en Chile es, sin duda, un tema de gran actualidad. Así se manifiesta en la insatisfacción de los actores sociales con la desigualdad existente en el país y, también, con mucha fuerza, en planteamientos ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We characterize essential stability of Cournot-Nash equilibria of generalized games with a continuum of players. As application, we rationalize the active participation of politically engaged individuals as the unique ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-11)El trabajo explora relaciones entre crecimiento del PIB y estabilidad macroeconómica, real, nominal y externa, utilizando datos anuales de la base del WEO del FMI para 185 paísed en el periodo 1980-2015. Se analizan ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001)Private provision of education is a topic which has received a great deal of discussion around the world in recent years. Free choice of schools and a voucher system providing public funding to both private and public ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)In this paper we estimate the impact of inequality of opportunity on inequality of income in the Chilean economy. We focus on the distribution of individual labor income. It is found that the share of overall inequality ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)This paper uses alternative measures of neighborhood quality to study its impact on student performance in school. The Chilean voucher-based education system allows us to test separately for neighborhood and traditional ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Las mujeres chilenas exhiben una de las tasas de participación laboral más bajas de Latinoamérica, a pesar del crecimiento económico de las últimas décadas y de tener el mayor nivel de escolaridad de la región después ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)With the exemption of adopting a foreign currency, Chile has experienced virtually all the menu of options of exchange rate policies in the last 40 years. The quest for a reasonable exchange rate policy has been inspired ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-05)We study a production economy where all consumption goods are indivisible at the individual level but perfectly divisible at the overall economy level. In order to facilitate the exchange in this setting, we introduce a ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2007-07)The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to break past the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)Research and development (R&D) has been considered a source of growth in productivity starting from Schultz (1953). Since then, significant research has studied this relationship at the firm, industry and country level. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This paper develops and tests a model of growth in that emphasizes the introduction of new export as the main source of growth in countries that are far within the world technological frontier and that depend for growth ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)El cambio en la estructura etárea en Chile se asocia a caídas en la natalidad y al envejecimiento de la población, ambos factores que inciden en forma importante en la oferta laboral. En este trabajo descomponemos la ...
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Female Labor Force Participation and Informal Care of Adults: Evidence for a middle-income country (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)The provision of elderly care is an issue of increasing importance in Latin American countries because of a aging population, decrease in household size, and increased complexity of care. Thus, it is important to analyze ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We use a specially designed survey to evaluate the effect of several public policies on female labor force participation in Chile. First, we estimate a self-selection model to find the determinants of female labor ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-03)Despite the fact that female political participation has been steadily growing over time with unseen effects on public policy, women representation in politics is substantially lower than their proportion in society. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)The objective of this study is to characterize the fertility trends in Chile in recent decades, and identify the main factors underlying them. This study is based on an in-depth analysis of the available data: the population ...
