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    • López Vega, Ramón; Mitra, Siddhartha (Elsevier, 2000)
      This paper examines the implications of corruption and rent-seeking behavior by the government for the relationship between pollution and growth. Cases of both cooperative and non-cooperative interaction between the ...
    • Aviles Ochoa, Ezequiel; León Castro, Ernesto; Alessandri Pérez-Arellano, Luis; Merigó Lindahl, José (IOS Press, 2018)
      The prioritized induced probabilistic ordered weighted average distance (PIPOWAD) has been developed. This new operator is an extension of the ordered weighted average (OWA) operator that can be used in cases where we have ...
    • Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Fischer Barkan, Ronald; Galetovic Potsch, Alexander (The University of Chicago Press, 2001)
      In this paper we show that fixed-term contracts, which are commonly used to franchise highways, do not allocate demand risk optimally. We characterize the optimal risk-sharing contract and show that it can be implemented ...
    • Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Galetovic Potsch, Alexander; Raddatz, Claudio E. (The MIT Press, 2001)
      Tax compliance studies usually focus on the effect of enforce-ment spending on tax evasion. Reliable estimates are difficult to obtain because evasion data are often suspect. This note shows how tax revenues can be used ...
    • 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 ...
    • Gómez-Lobo Echeñique, Andrés; Contreras Guajardo, Dante (Oxford University Press, 2003)
      Analysis of two water subsidy schemes--a means-tested subsidy in Chile and a geographically targeted subsidy in Colombia--shows that the means-tested system is better able to identify poor households than the geographically ...
    • López Vega, Ramón (Elsevier, 2003)
      The persistence of growth and its equity and environmental effects heavily depend on the composition of asset investments. Physical, human, and natural capital are the key assets behind the development process. Market ...
    • Serra Banfi, Pablo (National Tax Association, 2003)
      - The purpose of this paper is to measure the effectiveness of Chile’s Internal Revenue Service (SII). We assume that its goal is to achieve maximum compliance from taxpayers while minimizing compliance costs. Sample ...
    • Fischer Barkan, Ronald; Serra Banfi, Pablo (Elsevier, 2003)
      In several countries (Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Peru, among others), power plants are dispatched according to merit order, i.e. based on the marginal operating costs of the plants. In this scheme, the operating plant ...
    • Bustos, Alvaro; Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Galetovic Potsch, Alexander (Elsevier, 2004)
      On theoretical grounds alone, there is no a priori reason why higher taxes should reduce the desired capital stock, since a tax increase reduces marginal returns but also increases depreciation and interest payment allowances. ...
    • 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 ...
    • Agostini, Claudio; Martínez Alvear, Claudia (Wiley, 2014)
      Diesel in Chile receives a different tax treatment depending on its use. If diesel is used in industrial activities the diesel tax paid can be used as a credit against VAT and if diesel is used in freight or public ...
    • Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Fischer Barkan, Ronald; Galetovic Potsch, Alexander (Wiley, 2004)
      A seaport is awarded in a Demsetz auction to the operator bidding the lowest cargo-handling fee. The competitive auction is irrelevant if the port operator integrates into shipping and sabotages competitors, thus providing ...
    • Caballero, Ricardo; Engel Goetz, Eduardo (The American Economic Association, 2004)
      Cooper and Willis (2003) is the latest in a sequence of criticisms of our methodology for estimating aggregate nonlinearities when microeconomic adjustment is lumpy. Their case is based on “reproducing” our main findings ...
    • Barra Villalón, Cristóbal; Pressgrove, Geah; Torres Moraga, Eduardo (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      This cross-national study empirically tests a model that explains the ways in which trust and commitment lead to loyalty in the organization-donor relationship. This research fills a gap in the literature by contrasting ...
    • Espinosa, Christian; Maquieira, Carlos; Jara Bertin, Mauricio; Vieito, Joao Paulo (Wiley, 2018)
      Using a sample of 85 Chilean firms listed in the Santiago Stock Exchange from 2005 to 2013, we analyze the impact of corporate diversification on firm value. We consider voting rights of the main shareholder and institutional ...
    • Serra Banfi, Pablo (Wiley, 2005)
      The article proposes a set of tax administration performance measures and contrasts them with measures actually used by the Chilean tax administration agency. The goals assumed for the tax administration agency (TA) are ...
    • Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Paz Lillo, Ariel la; Ramaprasad, Arkalgud; Syn, Thant (Elsevier, 2018)
      Technological innovations are seen as means to optimize the efficient and clean use of vital resources in social-biological-economic systems. However, partial theoretical perspectives and experiences of their effects can ...
    • Ruiz Vergara, José (Elsevier, 2018)
      This study analyzes the nonlinear relationship between financial development under the presence of institutional investors (assets in insurance companies, mutual funds, and pension funds, as a percentage of GDP) and ...
    • Valenzuela Fernández, Leslier; Merigó Lindahl, José; Nicolas, Carolina (Sage Publications, 2018)
      The purpose of this article is to analyze the most productive and influential countries engaging in market orientation (MO) research between 1990 and 2016. This article shows the general trajectories of these countries, ...