Documentos de trabajo: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-10)This paper studies inequality of opportunity in health in Chile. Following Roemer's ap- proach to equality of opportunity, we separate the e ect of circumstances and e orts -healthy behaviors- on self-assessed health. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-04)
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015)While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, the empirical literature has struggled to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-01)Despite the relevance of protected areas as biodiversity conservation tools, indicators of cost-benefit analysis of both public and private protected areas has been scarce in the literature. In this paper, we estimate and ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-08)Análisis de la política de balance estructural fiscal en Chile, logros, limitaciones y propuestas para mejorar su contribución a la estabilidad macroeconómica real.
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)Este trabajo discute algunos aspectos relevantes de la reforma tributaria que est a siendo discutida en el Congreso. Se revisa alguna evidencia comparativa de Chile respecto del ahorro y la raz on deuda/patrimonio de ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-11)When microeconomic adjustment is lumpy, the VAR-estimated persistence of the corresponding aggregated variable is downward biased. The extent of this bias decreases with the level of aggregation, yet convergence is very ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-03)Despite the fact that female political participation has been steadily growing over time with unseen effects on public policy, women representation in politics is substantially lower than their proportion in society. ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-10)This paper hypothesizes that fiscal policy is one important factor determining whether or not environmentally and socially sustainable economic growth is possible. We postulate that tax policies affect the incentives to ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-07)Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are an increasingly popular organizational form of providing public infrastructure. They can increase e ciency and improve resource allocation, yet pervasive contract renegotiations ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-12)Why are sovereign debt defaults so persistent in some EMEs, even at relatively low levels of external debt? The empirical literature has argued that the country s record of defaults is the main determinant of the future ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-12)In recent years, unemployment protection systems based on individual savings have been instituted in several developing countries. Chile was one of the first countries to establish such a system, which at the time was ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-03)We consider a decision maker that holds multiple preferences simultaneously, each with different strengths described by a probability distribution. Faced with a subset of available alternatives, the preferences held by ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-05)We study economies where all commodities are indivisible at the individual level, but perfectly divisible at the aggregate level of the economy. Under the survival assumption, we show that a competitive outcome in the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-04)Over the last five decades a growing number of governments in developed and developing countries have implemented targeting policies to increase the R&D to GDP ratio. However, until now there have been few attempts either ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-05)We study a production economy where all consumption goods are indivisible at the individual level but perfectly divisible at the overall economy level. In order to facilitate the exchange in this setting, we introduce a ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-06)Using a randomized controlled trial of a large-scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program in Chile, we assess the effectiveness of business training and asset transfers to the poor. Using survey and monthly ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2016-03)We consider incomplete market economies where agents are subject to price-dependent trading constraints compatible with credit market segmentation. Equilibrium existence is guaranteed when either commodities are essential, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2015-12)Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, temperatures, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2015-11)Sub-Saharan African countries as a group showed a considerable reduction in public and external indebtedness in the early 2000s as a result of debt relief programs, higher economic growth and improved fiscal management ...
