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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)En el mundo actual las empresas pueden expandir sus acciones fuera de su país de origen con gran facilidad. La globalización permite a los emprendedores, por pequeños que sean, llevar su negocio a cualquier parte del ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This paper investigates the impact of PSP on the poor in the Colombian water sector in terms of access, continuity of service and affordability. Overall, the results indicate that PSP in the Colombian water sector has had ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-07)Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are an increasingly popular organizational form of providing public infrastructure. They can increase e ciency and improve resource allocation, yet pervasive contract renegotiations ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This paper studies the importance of global common factors in the evolution of sovereign credit risk in a group of emerging economies (15 countries in Latin America for which daily data are available on sovereign credit ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-12)Why are sovereign debt defaults so persistent in some EMEs, even at relatively low levels of external debt? The empirical literature has argued that the country s record of defaults is the main determinant of the future ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-06)We study the determinants of sudden stops in capital ows to emerging markets. Using gross international asset and liability ows (from the point of view of domestic residents), we identify three types of situations: (1) ...
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Sudden stops of capital flows: the role of outflows as a mechanism to offset sudden stops of inflows (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)We study the determinants of sudden stops in capital flows to emerging markets. Using gross international asset and liability flows (from the point of view of domestic residents), we identify three types of situations: ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The standard theoretical literature has shown that environmental sustainability and positive economic growth are not incompatible as long as environmental policies are optimal. However, in showing this result earlier ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)Este estudio tiene por objetivo determinar si el tamaño de la familia, el orden de nacimiento y el espacio temporal entre hermanos tienen efecto sobre los logros futuros de los individuos. En orden a abordar el problema ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2006)In this paper we study the impact of innovation activities on employment. We develop an empirical strategy based on Jaumandreu (2003) whichaccounts for differences between product and process innovations. Using microdata ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)We investigate the determinants of open skies agreements among Latin-American countries, focusing on the impact of having a dominant airline on the willingness of countries to sign agreements with others. We find that, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes is controversial. There are several studies for developed countries with mixed results, but there is a lack of evidence for developing countries. We have access to ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-07)The main contribution of this paper is to discuss the implications of a ‘soft’ budget constraint on optimal transit fares and subsidies. We find that the e↵ect of productive ine"ciencies on optimal fares and subsidy levels ...
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(Inter-American Development Bank, 2009)This paper surveys overall export growth in Chile and focuses on three case studies of the emergence of successful export activities in Chile: wine, pork and blueberries. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)In this article we apply some recently developed methodologies (Paes de Barros et al, 2008) to measure the evolution of the inequality of opportunity in Chile in the 1990-2006 period. The opportunities are measured as ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)The digital era is reshaping labor markets. Until now, this has been a developed country type of development. Developing countries, and in particular, Latin American economies are behind in terms of the adoption of ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)Taking advantage of georeferenced data from Chilean students, we estimate the impact of commuting time over academic achievement. As the commuting time is an endogenous variable, we use instrumental variables and fixed ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The incidence of alternative work arrangements has risen during recent decades, affecting the shape of the economy and leading to calls for changes in labor regulation. In this paper, we study the demand for temporary ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)The acquistion of technology through licenses is a potentially important means of accelerating productivity growth, especially in "late starter" developing countries in the throes of "catch up". Yet the literature has ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)We estimate the effect of prison labor programs on recidivism using a nationwide census-based dataset of all prison inmates released in 2010 in Chile and tracked for two years after release. Because participation in ...
