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    • Eco Agua 
      López Fajardo, Oscar Marcelo Ignacio; González Ramírez, Víctor (Universidad de Chile, 2017-09)
      Este Plan de Negocios muestra una nueva alternativa, ecológica y sustentable, en el mercado del agua embotellada. Actualmente cada vez que alguien compra agua purificada o mineral en la vía pública debe necesariamente ...
    • Bruyer Fuentes, Francisca, [Parte I]; Osorio Abadía, Frank, [Parte II] (Universidad de Chile, 2021)
      De acuerdo a datos del Banco Mundial, la construcción inmobiliaria da cuenta del 32% del consumo total de energía y del 19% de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en el mundo. En América Latina 8 de cada 10 ...
    • Cárcamo Hernández, Juan Carlos; Zúñiga Arce, Francisco Javier (Universidad de Chile, 2018-07)
      En Chile, para la construcción de caminos históricamente se ha utilizado asfalto tradicional, lo que se mantiene hasta el día de hoy. No obstante, en países como Argentina, Brasil, Uruguay, Estados Unidos, España, China, ...
    • Meruane Naranjo, Carolina (Universidad de Chile, 2015-09)
      EcoDesalación SpA es una empresa que nace para ayudar a solucionar el problema de la escasez hídrica en el norte de Chile, problema que pone en peligro el desarrollo y sustentabilidad de la minería del cobre. Nuestra ...
    • Chavarri, Caterina; Cooper, Victoria (Universidad de Chile, 2015)
      EcoFit Chile es una propuesta de negocio en el rubro de establecimientos deportivos diferenciado tanto por sus clientes objetivos como también por su modelo de negocio sustentable. Específicamente, EcoFit es una empresa, ...
    • Peña Sotomayor, Benjamín (Universidad de Chile, 2023)
      This paper presents a new approach to the ecological inference problem, particularly to estimating voter transition matrices between two elections. Our estimators choose the points that most closely conform to constraints ...
    • Marina, Adriana (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)
      The purpose of this paper is to study the inequality of income between the provinces of Argentina. The data in this paper comes from the traditionally used GDP p.c., as well as from Household survey. The analysis examines ...
    • Streb, Jorge M.; Druck, Pablo F. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007-06)
      Can limited government be a driving force of economic development? This idea goes back to Montesquieu, and is closely related to recent research in institutional economics. Measuring limited government with the Henisz ...
    • King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio; Orazem, Peter (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 ...
    • Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo; Fuentes, J. Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2006-12)
      Despite having accumulated physical and human capital at significant rates, Latin America’s growth has been generally disappointing. Successful growth episodes have been accompanied by surges in TFP, sound and stable ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo; Machinea, José (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
      This timely publication analyses the development challenge faced by Latin America at a time at which the concerns for the large inequality in the region are at a peak. In economies with average per-capita GDP about one-quarter ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Thomas, Vinod; Troncoso, Pablo A. (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 ...
    • Maia, José Luis; Ortiz, Javier (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      In this paper we make explicit the relationship that exists between a set of structural reforms –as those undertaken in Argentina at the beginnings of the nineties- and the growth process that they generate. It is argued ...
    • Edwards, Sebastián (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1996-12)
      I this paper I deal with some of the most important policy issues related to economic growth theory, and I argue that the recent literature in the field have been almost silent with respect to some of the most important ...
    • Gómez Méndez, Myriam; Hansen Silva, Erwin (Public Library Science, 2021)
      This paper analyzes the extent to which economic policy uncertainty affects presidential approval in four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico). Using panel (time-series cross-sectional) estimation ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
      This book provides an in-depth analysis of neo-liberal and progressive economic reforms and policies implemented in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship. The core thesis of the book is that there is not just 'one Chilean ...
    • Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Pasten, Roberto (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
      Several authors have argued that forest ecosystems serve as a hedge against extreme climatic events at a local scale. Consequently, the local climate regulation ecosystem services provided by forests can be economically ...
    • Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Pasten, Roberto (Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2014)
      Starting from the framework proposed by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment(MEA) - which conceptually links nature’s services with human wellbeing - we design and alsoapply empirically what we have called the total economic ...
    • Bonilla Meléndez, Claudio; Merigó Lindahl, José; Torres Abad, Carolina (Springer, 2015)
      Bibliometrics is a research field that studies quantitatively the bibliographic material. This study analyzes the academic research developed in Latin America in economics between 1994 and 2013. The article uses the Web ...
    • Suazo Páez, Boris (Universidad de Chile, 2017-12)
      Desde inicios de la revolución industrial, las prácticas y avances tecnológicos han impactado en nuestros hábitos de consumo y producción, pero también en el medio ambiente de una manera sin precedentes. Actualmente el ...