Artículos de revistas: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Al 2011 la empresa colombiana llamada Industrias Partmo S.A. se había convertido en uno de los líderes del sector de filtros para vehículos livianos, medianos y pesados. La empresa era reconocida en la industria de ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The current pension system design considers the collection of fees by the administration of the various accounts held by the affiliates. The mandatory deposit regular contributions in the individual capitalization account ...
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(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 ...
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(Elsevier, 2002)Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations for why Chile recovered much faster than Mexico did. Comparing data from the two countries allows us ...
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(Centre d'études internationales pour le développement; Institut de sciences mathématiques et économiques appliquées (Paris, France), 2001)Le renouvellement de la réflexion économique en Amérique latine permet aujourd’hui de prendre certaines distances avec la mode néolibérale. Les réformes qui s’en sont inspirées, bien qu’ayant obtenu certains résultats, ont ...
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(Elsevier, 2001)The perception that privatization hurts the poor is growing and creating a backlash against the private provision of basic infrastructure services. At the same time, governments are finding themselves fiscally strapped, ...
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A law of large numbers:Bidding and compulsory competitive tendering for refuse collection contracts (Springer, 2001)In this paper we investigate the relationship between costs and number of bidders for U.K. local authorities’ refuse collection contracts. We find that a higher number of bids is associated with a lower cost of service. ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001)Ten years of inflation targeting worldwide provide valuable lessons. Inflation targeters (ITers) have been very successfulin meeting their inflation targets (ITs). Industrial output sacrifice during inflation stabilization ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2001)This paper examines the recent saving performance of the Chilean economy in the light of its long-run (1940-96) trends. The first conclusion that can be derived from the data is that most of the increase in private saving ...
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(The MIT Press, 2001)This paper presents the asymptotic and finite sample properties of the efficient method of moments and indirect inference, when applied to estimating stationary ARMA models. Issues such as identification, model selection, ...
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(Wiley, 2001)This paper presents a statistical comparison between the actual and predicted evolution of the Chilean GDP for the period 0875Ð0887 made by several forecasters[ We show that the forecasters systematically underestimate ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)Este artículo ofrece un análisis comparativo de la eficacia de ocho métodos de pronóstico populares: univariante, regresiones lineal, discriminante y logit, particionamiento recursivo, rough sets, redes neuronales ...
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Does gender and birth order matter when parent specialize in child’s nutrition?.Evidence from Chile (Elsevier, 2000)Parental decisions have a profound effect on a child’s human capital development. Given the family’s endowment, the way parents decide how to allocate household resources has a direct impact on the child’s health ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000)A formal model of the Chilean dual health system is presented, which, for appropriate parameters, replicates the observed age segmentation of the population between the private insurance market and the public health ...
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(Incisive Media, 2016)We analyze the Solvency II standard formula (SF) for capital risk aggregation in relation to the treatment of operational risk (OR) capital. We show that the SF implicitly assumes that the correlation between OR and the ...
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(Springer, 2016)Most previous studies of income inequality have either ignored capital gains or have used taxable realized capital gains to estimate top incomes. Neither of these approaches is fully satisfactory. We apply for the first ...
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(Springer, 2000)This paper analyses the pelagic fishery of Northern Chile, estimating harvesting functions that contribute to understand why rather poor incentives to exit may predominate in pelagic fisheries, despite scarcer fish stocks. ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2016)We integrate recent findings from the linguistics literature with the organizational justice literature to examine how the language used to encode justice violations influences fairness perceptions. The study focused on ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)Overconfidence is an important bias related to the ability to recognize the limits of one's knowledge. The present study examines overconfidence in predictions of job performance for participants presented with information ...
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(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1999)Latin America experienced sharp swings in net capital inflows in the last two decades, with significant effects on the domestic economy. Chile, in particular, recorded the highest rise in external debt in the years up to ...
