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    • Cominetti Cotti-Cometti, Roberto; Díaz Maureira, Juan; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)
      This paper mainly concerns the the asymptotic properties of the BLOP matching estimator introduced by D´ıaz, Rau & Rivera (Forthcoming), showing that this estimator of the ATE attains the standard limit properties, and ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)
      The Chilean economy is usually highly praised as having been successful since the imposition of neo-liberal reforms under the dictatorship of general Pinochet in 1973. However, the four decades that have elapsed include ...
    • Bhalotra, Sonia; Mookherjee, Dilip; Chakravarty, Abhishek; Pino Emhart, Francisco (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy ...
    • Correa, Sofía; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      We characterize the existence and the essential stability of Weak Pareto-Nash and Pareto-Nash equilibria in multi-objective generalized games with a continuum of players.
    • Rojas, Marco; Vergara, Damián (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      Why agents cooperate is an old question that has been widely studied in economics, as well as in other disciplines. In economics, the focus has been mainly put in analyzing whether cooperative behaviors may arise from ...
    • Puentes E, Esteban; González, Alejandro; Jaar Michea, Daniel (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      This article develops a double selection model in order to test whether part-time workers are excluded from full time jobs (underemployed) or choose to put themselves into distinct labour market segments. Results show ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Thomas, Vinod; Troncoso, Pablo A. (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      This paper analyzes the association between climate change variables and the incidence of intense hydro meteorological disasters within a framework that include global and local climate variables as well as socio-econo ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Vergara Dominguez, Damian (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      This paper empirically addresses the relationship between natural resource abundance and educational attainment. Using information for Chilean municipalities between 2000 and 2013, we exploit aggregate changes in natural ...
    • Agosín Trumper, Manuel; Díaz Maureira, Juan; Karnani Bhagwan, Mohit (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      We study the determinants of sudden stops in capital flows to emerging markets. Using gross international asset and liability flows (from the point of view of domestic residents), we identify three types of situations: ...
    • Sturla Zerene, Gino; Accorsi Opazo, Simón; López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)
      En este trabajo se estiman las rentas de largo plazo de las empresas que explotan los diez yacimientos que constituyen la gran minería privada del cobre en Chile (GMP-10), aplicando una metodología moderna consistente ...
    • Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Mizala Salcés, Alejandra (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      This paper studies the effect of school closure in the Chilean market-oriented educational system. Between 2000 and 2012 the system exhibited a large turnover: 1,651 schools closed -roughly one-sixth of the current stock- ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Sturla Zerene, Gino Stefano (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      En este trabajo se propone un mecanismo concreto para captar una parte significativa de las rentas económicas de la gran minería privada del cobre en Chile (GMP-10), estimadas en USD 120 mil millones3, por Sturla, Accorsi, ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; González Tissinetti, Aldo; García, Manuel (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      We investigate the determinants of open skies agreements among Latin-American countries, focusing on the impact of having a dominant airline on the willingness of countries to sign agreements with others. We find that, ...
    • Larraín Ríos, Guillermo; Ballesteros, Simón; García, Sebastián (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      Una de las principales falencias del sistema de pensiones chileno es el bajo monto de pensiones. En este artículo se presenta una propuesta de reforma al sistema que divide en dos etapas el periodo de jubilación, la ...
    • Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Sturla Zerene, Gino; Sturla Zerene, Massimiliano; Flores P., José (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      En este estudio se estima, por primera vez, el monto total de emisiones de carbono asociadas al trasporte de material estéril contenido en el concentrado de cobre exportado desde Chile hacia el resto del mundo. Utilizando ...
    • Grau Veloso, Nicolás; Gómez Baeza, Francisca (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      We estimate the effect of prison labor programs on recidivism using a nationwide census-based dataset of all prison inmates released in 2010 in Chile and tracked for two years after release. Because participation in ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Sepúlveda, Paulina (World Bank Economic Review, 2016)
      This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateral effects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension of the ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Accorsi, Simón; Sturla, Gino (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-10)
      El presente estudio desarrolla y aplica una metodología para calcular la huella de carbono sectorial en base a la matriz insumo-producto. Este método captura de una mejor forma las emisiones netas atribuibles a cada ...
    • Agosín Trumper, Manuel; Bravo Ortega, Claudio (Inter-American Development Bank, 2009)
      This paper surveys overall export growth in Chile and focuses on three case studies of the emergence of successful export activities in Chile: wine, pork and blueberries. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, ...
    • Bonilla Meléndez, Claudio; Cancino del Castillo, Christian (Inter-American Development Bank, 2011-10)
      This paper seeks to measure the impact on small businesses in Chile of the Seed Capital Program implemented by Chile’s Technical Cooperation Services (Servicio de Cooperación Técnica – SERCOTEC). The results are mixed. ...