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    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Zahler, Andrés; Bravo Ortega, Claudio (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-10)
      This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative ...
    • Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Benavente Hormazábal, José; González, Álvaro (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-06)
      Both exports and innovation (in particular, research and development) are key factors for the growth of firms and economies, but there has been little study of their combined impact on them, especially in developing ...
    • Accorsi Opazo, Simón; López Vega, Ramón; Sturla Zerene, Gino Stefano (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      En este artículo comparamos dos metodologías para medir y asignar entre sectores productivos la huella de carbono para el caso chileno (2008-2013): la metodología de Balance Energético (BE), tradicionalmente utilizada ...
    • Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Lederman, Daniel (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2008)
      The authors extend the model by Aghion and Howitt (1992) to highlight the role of intellectual-property-rights (IPRs) in the process of innovation and structural change. The model predicts, in contrast to existing ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-09)
      The Chilean economy is usually highly praised as a successful one since the imposition of neoliberal reforms, under the dictatorship of general Pinochet in 1973. The fact is that the four decades that have elapsed include ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)
      The Chilean economy is usually highly praised as having been successful since the imposition of neo-liberal reforms under the dictatorship of general Pinochet in 1973. However, the four decades that have elapsed include ...
    • Pino Emhart, Francisco (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      I exploit the unique institution of gender-segregated voting booths in Chile, allowing the use of actual voting data, instead of self-reported surveys, to test for gender bias among voters. I find evidence of a small but ...
    • Sanhueza Riveros, Claudia; Bravo Urrutia, David; Urzúa, Sergio (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2007-07)
      This paper presents a complete analysis of the gender differences in three Chilean professional’s labor market: Business, Law and Medicine. In the analysis, we utilize a new and rich data set collected for this effect. ...
    • Landerretche Moreno, Óscar (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      This paper is devoted to the construction of the panel and econometric use of the first labor panel database to study workplace creation and destruction in Chile. For local interest, the main feature of the paper is that ...
    • Cortés, Tomás; Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)
      Although there is debate about whether juvenile incarceration deters future crime, it is a common practice worldwide. We contribute to this debate by using Chilean data to assess the causal impact of different types of ...
    • Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Muñoz, Leonardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-07)
      Governments in every country are concerned about the local economic development within each country’s region. In this vein, the case of mining industry draws attention in its trend of establishing enclave economies ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo; Heresi, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-09)
      Ante el contagio de la crisis financiera internacional, la economía chilena experimentó una intensa reducción del precio del cobre y de los influjos de capitales. Consecuentemente, la demanda agregada y el empleo de ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-08)
      Análisis de la política de balance estructural fiscal en Chile, logros, limitaciones y propuestas para mejorar su contribución a la estabilidad macroeconómica real.
    • Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Troncoso, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      Individuals’ labor market performance can be affected directly by their mental health through labor market participation and productivity. Moreover, poor mental health of workers limits labor mobility and hence efficiency ...
    • Egaña del Sol, Pablo; Micco Aguayo, Alejandro (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)
      After the "Lost Decade" Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) initiated a complex reform process. Democracies returned to the continent and many countries moved away from the import substitution model (see Table 1). The ...
    • Larrañaga Jiménez, Osvaldo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      The purpose of the study is to analyze the trends in the labor market participation of women between 1958 and 2003. Two main sources of primary data are used: the Employment Survey of the University of Chile, which ...
    • Bucarey, Alonso; Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Muñoz, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      This paper studies the labor market returns to a state guaranteed loan (SGL) used to finance university degrees. Using administrative data from Chile and a regression discontinuity design, we show that nine years after ...
    • Karnani Bhagwan, Mohit (Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2015)
      I exploit the exogenous characteristic of a natural disaster occurred in Chile in order to explain its effects on general unemployment over affected and unaffected regions of the country in a mid-run timespan of 5 measured ...
    • Correa, Sofía; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      We characterize the existence and the essential stability of Weak Pareto-Nash and Pareto-Nash equilibria in multi-objective generalized games with a continuum of players.
    • Cominetti Cotti-Cometti, Roberto; Díaz Maureira, Juan; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)
      This paper mainly concerns the the asymptotic properties of the BLOP matching estimator introduced by D´ıaz, Rau & Rivera (Forthcoming), showing that this estimator of the ATE attains the standard limit properties, and ...