Documentos de trabajo: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile, 2015-09)This paper studies the e ect of school entry and exit in the Chilean market-oriented educational system. During the period 1994-2012, 2,151 schools closed, roughly one- fth of the current stock of schools. At the same ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016-01)This paper builds and estimates a dynamic model of elementary school choice using detailed Chilean administrative data. In the model, parents care about different features of primary schools: school’s socioeconomic ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-12)This paper studies the effects of ambiguity on long-run cooperation, by analyzing the infinitely repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma and its application to Cournot’s duopoly model. We show that ambiguity decreases the likelihood ...
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(2000-10)El caso que se entrega a continuación se relaciona con la demanda y oferta de información financiera, en donde se estudia los distintos grupos de usuarios interesados en la información financiera de una importante empresa ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-09)The Chilean economy is usually highly praised as a successful one since the imposition of neoliberal reforms, under the dictatorship of general Pinochet in 1973. The fact is that the four decades that have elapsed include ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-10)This paper shows one important result, namely, that corporate tax systems that allow at least for two sources of investment tax deductions (e.g., accelerated arbitrary investment depreciation and deductibility of part ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-11)In the last decades, consumer debt experienced a marked increase in the United States, Latin America and other emerging countries, spurring a debate about the real costs and benefits of household credit. This paper ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-10)Using retained profits, instead of realized capital gains, by simply adding them to the shareholders’ other sources of income is shown to be in general incorrect. We provide a methodology to include undistributed profits ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-03)This article measures the impact of the agency responsible for enforcing competition law, in the outcome of antitrust trials in Chile. Using statistics on lawsuits since the inception of the new Competition Tribunal in ...
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La economía chilena frente a la crisis financiera: respuestas contra-cíclicas y desafíos pendientes (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-09)Ante el contagio de la crisis financiera internacional, la economía chilena experimentó una intensa reducción del precio del cobre y de los influjos de capitales. Consecuentemente, la demanda agregada y el empleo de ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-03)The scanty economic literature has attributed to female voting part of the increase in government expenditure and social government expenditure over the XXth century. This finding results puzzling considering that the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014-05)Using firm-level data from the manufacturing sector of Chile for the period 1995-2002, we examine whether access to finance increase the probability of exporting. To do that, we exploit information of firms´ access to ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-06)Both exports and innovation (in particular, research and development) are key factors for the growth of firms and economies, but there has been little study of their combined impact on them, especially in developing ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-04)We examine evidence from a 2006 to 2009 data panel to explore how Chilean households were affected by the negative income shock observed during the recent financial crisis. Our results show that there is a negative and ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-10)This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013-03)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 ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2007-07)The objective of this paper is to study the Chilean labor market and determine the presence or absence of gender discrimination. In order to break past the limitations of earlier works, an experimental design is used, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2007-07)This paper presents a complete analysis of the gender differences in three Chilean professional’s labor market: Business, Law and Medicine. In the analysis, we utilize a new and rich data set collected for this effect. ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2007-07)This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the gender differences in the Chilean labor market. We formally deal with the selection of the individuals into schooling levels and its consequences on the gender gaps. ...
