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    • Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio (Taylor and Francis, 2010)
      This paper presents estimations of the shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing, Eastern European, Central Asian, and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006/2007. According to our estimations, the ...
    • Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Orihuela R, Carlos; Calfucura T, Enrique (Elsevier, 2010)
      This paper estimates the true economic income of Peru’s metal mining sector for the period 1992–2006, using a model of green economic income based on Hamilton (2000). The total depletion of natural capital caused by metal ...
    • Muñoz, Ercio; Rodríguez, Arturo (Elsevier, 2017)
      This study analyzes the behavior of stock prices around the ex-dividend date focusing on the effects of a major tax reduction. Using the 40 most heavily traded shares on the Santiago Stock Exchange, the study evaluates ...
    • Núñez Errázuriz, Javier; Miranda, Leslie (De Gruyter, 2010)
      This paper studies the magnitude of intergenerational income mobility in less developed, high inequality Chile. Following a known methodology where fathers’ incomes are predicted from standard income determinants such ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; García, Álvaro (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010)
      En este trabajo se estudia la relación entre exportaciones, productividad e innovación tecnológica. En primer lugar, se analiza la relación de causalidad entre desempeño exportador y productividad de las firmas. La evidencia, ...
    • Arellano, M. Soledad; Serra Banfi, Pablo (Elsevier, 2010)
      A number of countries with oligopolistic power industries have used marginal cost pricing to set the price of energy for small customers. This course of action, however, does not necessarily ensure an efficient outcome ...
    • Flores Bazán, Fabián; Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      There are many examples in the literature of non-cooperative games in which players prefer not to have additional information in order to improve their payoff. We present a general quadratic game in which, if one of the ...
    • Ramos Quiñones, Joseph (Naciones Unidas, 2010)
      Aquí se examina el efecto de la globalización en el sindicalismo en los países en desarrollo (el “Sur”). Se concluye, primero, que la globalización ha sido asimétrica: mucho más intensa en el comercio de bienes que en ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Plaza, Gonzalo (Taylor and Francis, 2010)
      This article analyzes determinants of female participation in the Chilean labor force using classic determinants such as age, education, marital status, and number of children. The results indicate that the greater a ...
    • Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Merigó Lindahl, José; Miranda, Jaime; Slowinski, Roman; Bomze, Immanuel; Borgonovo, Emanuele; Dyson, Robert G.; Oliveira, Jose Fernando; Teunter, Ruud (Elsevier, 2017)
      The European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) published its first issue in 1977. This paper presents a general overview of the journal over its lifetime by using bibliometric indicators. We discuss its performance ...
    • Theodoulidis, Babis; Díaz Solís, David; Crotto, Federica; Rancati, Elisa (Elsevier, 2017)
      The literature examining the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance (CFP) in the tourism industries is extensive but it has not verified the relationship unambiguously. ...
    • Valenzuela Fernández, Leslier; Martínez Troncoso, Carolina (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)
      This research aims to (1) investigate the factors that influence the adoption of IT (2) study the possible influences between IT adoption, organizational performance and perception of quality service by the employees ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Institut Hautes etudes Amerique Latine, 2017)
      Economic policies and outcomes are examined covering the four Concertacion governments in 1990-2009. It is shown that in these two decades, GDP growth was notably higher (averaging 5.1% annually) than under the dictatorship ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; García Marín, Álvaro; Ilabaca, Sebastián (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper examines the local economic impact on poverty of large increases in metal-mining products prices in Chile. Using household data from 1998 to 2009, and exploiting differences in municipalities’ exposure to ...
    • Agostini, Claudio A.; Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Río Flores, Bárbara del (Naciones Unidas, 2012)
      En este trabajo se estiman los efectos distributivos de la eliminación del tratamiento diferencial de ingresos empresariales respecto de los ingresos individuales en el sistema tributario chileno, así como de eliminar ...
    • Benavente, Jose Miguel (Taylor and Francis, 2006)
      This paper continues the empirical research line started by Crepon et al. (Crepon, B., Duguet, E. and Mairesse, J. (1998) Research, Innovation, and Productivity: An Econometric Analysis at the Firm Level. Economics of ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Elacqua, Gregory; Martínez, Matías; Miranda, Álvaro (Elsevier, 2015)
      Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the association between income inequality and school violence and between the performance inequality and school violence in two international samples. Methods: The study ...
    • Martínez Alvear, Claudia (The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
      Until 1999 children born out of wedlock in Chile had di§erent child support rights to those born to married couples. I interpret this law change as an increase in bargaining power of woman in cohabiting relationships. Using ...
    • Grau Veloso, Nicolás (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper empirically evaluates the effects of college admissions policies on high school students’ academic effort. I build a rank-order tournament model where high school students decide their level of effort and ...
    • López Vega, Ramón (Elsevier, 1984)
      This paper proposes a model oriented towards integrating farm households' production and consumption decisions into a unified theoretical and econometric framework. It is argued that, in contrast with other forms of economic ...