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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001)This article studies the household income distribution and its immediate determinants in the chilean economy. The analysis is based in two data sources: the employment survey of University of Chile (1958-2001) and the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)This paper studies how the use of divestiture in merger control can affect the revelation of information about the level of efficiency gains that a proposed merger carries. We show that a decision policy that uses costly ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)This paper examines the relation between firm investment ratios and institutional blockholders for a sample of 6,300 publicly traded firms in 16 large emerging markets for the 2004–2016 period. Results show that independent, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)In developing countries, the penetration of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is still high, and hence the entry of Natural Gas (NG) networks coexists with the use of LPG by an important fraction of households. Thus, a ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-06)Using a randomized controlled trial of a large-scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program in Chile, we assess the effectiveness of business training and asset transfers to the poor. Using survey and monthly ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade linkages on bilateral real exchange rate volatility by examining a particular channel —the extent of the effects of differences on import intensities (GDP’s share ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This paper seeks to understand the role of tax policy in executive rent-seeking within the firm and income. While a longstanding literature maintains that executives are afforded discretion in obtaining rents, that the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)Using the Climate Investment Survey from the World Bank, we analyze the effect of competition on technological innovation in developing countries. We deal with endogeneity of competition by using the interaction between ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)Dominance is usually viewed as a positive male attribute, but this is not typically the case for women. Using a novel dataset of teacher evaluations in a school of Business and Economics of a selective university, we ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We set up a model where two retailers compete downstream and buy their inputs from a single producer. Retailers may collude downstream, when fixing the retail price and cooperate upstream by jointly negotiating the wholesale ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-11-30)Many authors have pointed out the importance of determining the impact of ridesourcing on vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT),and thus on transport externalities like congestion. However, to date there is scant ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-01)This paper builds and estimates a dynamic model of elementary school choice using detailed Chilean administrative data. In the model, parents care about different features of primary schools: school’s socioeconomic ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)T.W. Schultz (1975) proposed that returns to human capital were highest in economic environments where technology, price or production shocks were common and managerial skills to adapt resource allocations to those shocks ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)This paper analyzes the association between climate change variables and the incidence of intense hydro meteorological disasters within a framework that include global and local climate variables as well as socio-econo ...
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Efecto de una mayor cobertura de salas cuna en la participación laboral femenina: evidencia de Chile (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2009)La provisión publica de salas cunas en Chile aumento en un 70% entre el 2005 y 2006. Esta variación exógena en la disponibilidad de cuidado infantil a nivel comunal es utilizada en este estudio para estimar su efecto en ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)En este artículo construimos medidas de tipos de cambio real sectoriales para la economía chilena. Encontramos que hay significativa heterogeneidad en los TCR sectoriales, importantes cambios en esa heterogeneidad y en las ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)La investigación en Chile acerca del efecto de las actividades no lectivas sobre el desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas y no cognitivas es muy escaso, a pesar de la creciente evidencia internacional de su relevancia, ...
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(World Bank Economic Review, 2016)This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateral effects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension of the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)Este trabajo presenta estimaciones de eficiencia técnica en labores de pesca de la flota industrial en la pesquería pelágica Centro-Sur de Chile (regiones V hasta la X), con datos para 204 barcos a lo largo de 11 años ...
