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    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Kehoe, Patrick J; Kehoe, Timothy J; Soto, Raimundo (Elsevier, 2002)
      Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations for why Chile recovered much faster than Mexico did. Comparing data from the two countries allows us ...
    • Agostini González, Claudio; Pellegrini, Julio; Mañalich Raffo, Juan; Bascuñán Rodríguez, Antonio; González, Aldo; Nehme Zalaquett, Nicole; Gorab Sabat, Daniela; Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Sierra Iribarren, Lucas (CEP, 2015)
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Repetto Lisboa, Andrea (EXPANSIVA, 2004)
      Hay dos razones por las que creemos que la adopción de tecnología debe ser el primer paso de nuestra política nacional de innovación. Primero, porque el tamaño de la brecha de ingresos entre los países desarrollados ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Morandé Lavín, Felipe (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002)
      Desde 1984 y hasta 1997, la economía chilena experimentó un crecimiento per cápita promedio de 5,4 por ciento, lo que la ubica dentro de las economías exitosas del mundo de las últimas dos décadas. Sin embargo, entre ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Micco Aguayo, Alejandro; Repetto Lisboa, Andrea (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economoía y Negocios, 2011-04)
      Since 1975 Chilean exports have boomed growing at a 6% average rate per year in real terms. In this paper we use manufacturing Chilean data at the plant level for years 1990 to 2007 to investigate the relationship between ...
    • Pereira Flores, Mauricio Gastón (Universidad de ChilePrograma Cybertesis, 2007)
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Repetto Lisboa, Andrea; Hernando, Andrés (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010-12)
      Starting in the mid 1970s, Chile implemented comprehensive structural market reforms. Using manufacturing plant-level data on Chilean firms for years 1980 to 2001, we estimate the role of reforms on efficiency. We analyze ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Repetto Lisboa, Andrea (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006)
      Using plant-level data on Chilean manufacturing firms for the 1980-2001 period, we estimate and characterize disaggregate total factor productivity. We use these estimates to study the microeconomic sources of aggregate ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Micco Aguayo, Alejandro; Repetto Lisboa, Andrea (Naciones Unidas, 2011)
      Desde 1975, las exportaciones chilenas crecieron a una tasa media anual del 6% en términos reales. Este trabajo se concentra en los datos de la industria manufacturera a nivel de planta del período 1990- 2007, para ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Kehoe, Timothy J.; Soto, Raimundo (American Economic Association, 2002)
      Both Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s, but Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Using growth accounting and a calibrated dynamic general equilibrium model, we conclude that the ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Suárez, Juan Enrique (ILADES-Georgetown University, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, 1996)
      Desde la publicación en 1982 del artículo de Kydland y Prescott, la literatura de ciclos económicos ha experimentado profundos cambios. La visión tradicional en la que las fluctuaciones del producto son explicadas ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Loayza, Norman V.; Piguillem, Facundo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-04)
      We explore how regulatory or institutional distortions to resource reallocation limit the ability of developing countries to adopt new technologies. An efficient economy innovates quickly; but when the economy is unable ...
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Loayza, Norman; Piguillem, Facundo (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      This paper links microeconomic rigidities and technological adoption to propose a partial explanation for the observed differences in income per capita across countries. The paper first presents a neoclassical general ...
    • Gajardo Contreras, Jaime Rodrigo (Universidad de ChilePrograma Cybertesis, 2007)
    • Bergoeing Vela, Raphael; Kehoe, Timothy J.; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa; Mu Yi, Kei (The American Economic Association, 2004)
      For the OECD as whole, as well as for the U.S., manufacturing exports have been rising, while manufacturing output (both expressed as a share of total GDP) has been falling. We examine the prevalence of this puzzling fact ...