Documentos de trabajo: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We adapt the multidimensional poverty methodology to study job quality dynamics using a unique household survey panel for Chile. We use information on wages, type of contract, training and employment duration to build ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We set up a model where two retailers compete downstream and buy their inputs from a single producer. Retailers may collude downstream, when fixing the retail price and cooperate upstream by jointly negotiating the wholesale ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This paper seeks to understand the role of tax policy in executive rent-seeking within the firm and income. While a longstanding literature maintains that executives are afforded discretion in obtaining rents, that the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This paper studies the importance of global common factors in the evolution of sovereign credit risk in a group of emerging economies (15 countries in Latin America for which daily data are available on sovereign credit ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model with default and collateral requirements. In contrast with previous literature, our model allows for liquidity contractions and general prepayment specifications. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)A recent theoretical literature has given relevance to the study of the relationship between product mix changes and firm productivity. In this paper, taking advantage of a rich dataset for manufacturing plants in Chile ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)We use a specially designed survey to evaluate the effect of several public policies on female labor force participation in Chile. First, we estimate a self-selection model to find the determinants of female labor ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Searching for a behavioural explanation of the empirical occurrence of Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) the literature has usually assumed additive preferences, i.e. that the marginal utility of consumption does not ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)El presente trabajo investiga qué atributos del profesor son favorables al rendimiento escolar de los estudiantes y cómo cambian estos resultados al controlar por el ordenamiento no aleatorio entre profesores y estudiantes. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Las mujeres chilenas exhiben una de las tasas de participación laboral más bajas de Latinoamérica, a pesar del crecimiento económico de las últimas décadas y de tener el mayor nivel de escolaridad de la región después ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)The standard theoretical literature has shown that environmental sustainability and positive economic growth are not incompatible as long as environmental policies are optimal. However, in showing this result earlier ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)Existe cierta evidencia indicativa que las mujeres serían más adversas al riesgo que los hombres. Esto tiene importantes consecuencias en la toma de decisiones que involucran incertidumbre, tales ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2012)This brief paper proposes an analytical method for estimating the economic value of forest ecosystems in supplying climate regulation. If, as argued by several authors, forests ecosystems serve as hedging against climatic ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Los últimos procesos migratorios que ha vivido Chile han despertado el interés respecto a los efectos de la inmigración sobre la economía del país. El objetivo de este trabajo es caracterizar y analizar los efectos de ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper reviews industrial policy in Latin America from the Great Depression to our days. Its purpose is to derive some lessons for what Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC) should do in this area. It has become ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade linkages on bilateral real exchange rate volatility by examining a particular channel —the extent of the effects of differences on import intensities (GDP’s share ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)Chileans have limited knowledge of the pension system, its rules and the consequences involved in their personal decisions within it. Using a variation in the household composition- having a pensioner in the household- ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)Using the Climate Investment Survey from the World Bank, we analyze the effect of competition on technological innovation in developing countries. We deal with endogeneity of competition by using the interaction between ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)– Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain ...
