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    • Benavente Hormazábal, José; Crespi T., Gustavo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      The purpose of this paper is to formulate a theoretical framework as an alternative to the neoclassical one in order to find a more consistent explanation to the phenomenon of innovation and the process of growth. This new ...
    • Melo, Pedro (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1996-08)
      Cities are the outcome of processes of economic maximization where not all requirements of perfect competition are given (there are externalities, transaction and information costs, and market power), and where the past ...
    • Devlin, Robert; Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (John Wiley & Sons, 1999)
      THE decade of the 1990s has witnessed a wave of regional integrationinitiatives in Latin America: more than 15 agreements — free trade areasor customs unions — since 1990 with a handful more in varying degrees ofnegotiation ...
    • Kacprzyk, Janusz; Yager, Ronald R.; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2019)
      This work presents a new perspective on how Zadeh's ideas related to fuzzy logic and computing with words have influenced the crucial issue of information aggregation and have led to what may be called a human-centric ...
    • Robbins, Donald (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      This paper examines the impacts of real devaluation, trade liberalization and the growing relative supply of skill on wage dispersion in Colombia’s seven principal cities over 1976-1994. The Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson(HOS) ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Vergara, Sebastián (Elsevier, 2013)
      In this paper we analyze the relationship between survival, employment growth and firm size in Chile, an economy that has reduced largely its trade barriers in the last three decades. We are particularly interested in ...
    • Agosín Trumper, Manuel; Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
      In recent years, many Latin American countries (LACs) have embarked upon trade liberalization drives. This article reviews the radical changes in trade policy which this has entailed, together with the current and foreseeable ...
    • Wolf, Holger C. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1993)
      New trade theory and endogenous growth models have revived the debate on the static and dynamic implications of trade orientation. Alas, a decade of models has produced more ambiguity than clarity, placing a premium on ...
    • Moran, Cristian; Serra Banfi, Pablo (Elsevier, 1993)
      The present paper evaluates the effects of alternative trade policy reforms to the Central American Common External Tariff (CET) schedule on the Guatemalan economy. To accomplish this, the paper develops a multiperiod ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Rodrik, Dani (Elsevier, 1990)
      Our model demonstrates that when imports are predominantly intermediate inputs, as in most developing countries, import restrictions cannot be always relied on to generate an improvement in the trade balance. Such restrictions ...
    • Gómez-Lobo Echeñique, Andrés (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      El Plan de Modernización del Transporte Público en Santiago, o Transantiago, suponía una reforma radical del sistema de transporte de superficie de la capital. Aún cuando hay mas beneficiados con esta reforma de lo ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      The inhability of the agricultural sector to maintain the relative income level of the population devoted to the sector has been called the “farm problem” in the literature. The analytical wok on the farm problem” has been ...
    • Gómez Lobo, Andrés (Elsevier, 2020)
      We use monthly data on transit supply and ridership to evaluate the impact of BRT type reforms in intermediate cities in Colombia. We find that these reforms are associated with a decrease in aggregate transit ridership. ...
    • Galetovic Potsch, Alexander (Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2002-12)
      Esta nota estudia los determinantes de la tasa apropiada para fijar peajes de transmisión. Para ello se desarrolla un modelo simple que permite descomponerla en una suma de la tasa libre de riesgo y el premio por ...
    • Dasgupta, Swapan; Mitra, Tapan (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      In the literature on price characterization of optimal paths in stationary models of optimal growth, distinct “transversality conditions” have been presented, depending on whether or not utilities are discounted. In the ...
    • Acuña Aguirre, Eduardo; Pérez, Ernesto (2005-07)
      El Departamento de Estudios de la Dirección del Trabajo presenta el Cuaderno de Investigación Nº 23 "Trayectorias laborales: El tránsito entre el trabajo asalariado y el empleo independiente". En la parte I de este ...
    • Chumacero Escudero, Rómulo; Gallego, Francisco A. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002-12)
      This paper compares the results of applying several detrending methods to the Chilean monthly economic activity index (IMACEC) using real-time data sets. We show that data revisions are extremely important and that they ...
    • Núñez Errázuriz, Javier; Pérez Núñez, Graciela (Elsevier, 2015)
      This paper studies the trends in height-by-age across socioeconomic groups of Chilean boys aged 5–18 born between 1880 and 1997, by performing a meta-analysis of 38 studies reporting height-by-age published since 1898. ...
    • Faúndez Ugalde, Antonio; Vidal Olivares, Álvaro; Olguín Romero, Alexander Nicolás; Molina Marisio, Felipe (Univ. Chile, Fac. Derecho, 2021)
      The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different proposals that have formulated by the OECD and the G-20 with the goal to establish a common fiscal criterion in the digital economy since 1997, at the Finnish Conference, ...
    • Yáñez Henríquez, José (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Econmía y Negocios, Depto. Control de Gestión y Sistemas de Información, 2015)
      Para juzgar una política económica (sus efectos o consecuencias) es necesario realizar un análisis positivo (la economía nos da herramientas para llevar a cabo este análisis), pero además se requiere demostrar que las ...