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    • 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 ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Elsevier, 1977)
      This paper examines the framework in which the Andean Common Market was created, the provisions of its charter, and the Group's initial achievements. The Andean Common Market was formed in response to the inadequacies of ...
    • Miller, Rory M. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)
      The previously successful British merchant houses on the west coast of South America faced significant problems between the two world wars. Earlier historians have referred to difficulties such as the volatility of ...
    • Moráles, Marco; Larraín Ríos, Guillermo (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017)
      The Chilean electronic market for annuities was created in 2004 in order to correct several malfunctions of the market for annuities. The Chilean pension system is composed of two phases. During the accumulation phase, ...
    • Benavente, José Miguel; Crespi, Gustavo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1996)
      It may be stated that there exists, within the field of the economy, a growing consensus regarding the fact that together with capital accumulation, technological progress and its associated innovations are the central ...
    • Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Venetoulias, Achilles (JSTOR, 1992)
      On October 5, 1988, Chileans decided by plebiscite to oust General Pinochet from power and have free presidential elections in 1989. This article describes the projections that the authors made for the results of the ...
    • La Paz, Ariel; Vásquez, Jonathan; Miranda, Jaime (IEEE Computer Society, 2019)
      Descriptions of Chief Information Officer (CIO) profiles reveal challenges posed by the evolution of information systems and technologies demanding a variety of abilities and skills to meet business strategies and objectives. ...
    • Vergara, Marcos; Bonilla Meléndez, Claudio; Sepúlveda, Jean P (Elsevier, 2016)
      This paper focuses on the relationship between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. In particular, it analyses how both players' unobservable effort levels affect the equity share that the entrepreneur is willing ...
    • Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Duarte Vásquez, Fabián; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Budnich, Marilu; Delgado, Carolina; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a ...
    • Rivero-Cantillano, Rodrigo; Navarrete-Montalvo, Juan; Ordenes, Cristian; Llorca-Jaña, Manuel (Wiley, 2020)
      This article deals with the demographic consequences of the end of Chile's nitrate boom following the 1929 crisis. The traditional economic historiography has maintained that this crisis impacted heavily on nitrate production, ...
    • Henríquez, Ricardo (2004-12-23)
      En este artículo se analizan los determinantes de la elección de proveedores preferidos (preferred providers) bajo la modalidad de libre elección en el sistema de salud público chileno. Esta modalidad de atención, a ...
    • Otero González, Luis; Rodríguez Gil, Luis Ignacio; Martorell Cunill, Onofre; Merigó Lindahl, José (2016)
      This study examines the effect of the use of securitization and credit derivatives on the risk profile of European banks. Using information from 134 listed European banks during the period of 2006-2010, the results show ...
    • Grau, Nicolás; Marivil, Gonzalo; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge Enrique (Springer, 2021)
      Around a third of prisoners worldwide (2.8 million) are incarcerated before trial. This paper combines Chilean individual administrative data for criminal cases and labor market outcomes to estimate, by differences-in- ...
    • Duarte Vásquez, Fabian; Kadiyala, Srikanth; Masters, Samuel H.; Powell, David (Wiley, 2017)
      In July 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40years. Although the health effects of the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity ...
    • Duarte Vásquez, Fabian; Kadiyala, Srikanth; Masters, Samuel; Powell, David (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017)
      In July 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40 years. Although the health effectsof the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity consequences. ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Brante Contreras, Miguel; Espinoza Rojas, Sebastián; Zúñiga, Isabel (Elsevier, 2020)
      This paper studies the effect of the integration of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) on the academic achievement of their peers without SEN. This achievement is measured using performance in standardized reading ...
    • Núñez Errázuriz, Javier; Leiva, Benjamin (Taylor and Francis, 2018)
      Bicameral university governance models often include a university senate coexisting in parallel to executive bodies. This paper analyses the functioning and performance of the tripartite ‘participative’ Senate of the ...
    • Bonilla Meléndez, Claudio; Gutiérrez Cubillos, Pablo (Wiley, 2020)
      We incorporate ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty) into a classic model of entrepreneurship to analyze, among other things, its effects on the optimal level of business startups, the relation between total assets and the ...