Facultad de Economía y Negocios: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)Este trabajo realiza una comparación de precios de medicamentos entre las seis principales economías de América Latina. Se emplea un modelo econométrico de panel con efecto fijo por país que controla por un variado ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The incidence of alternative work arrangements has risen during recent decades, affecting the shape of the economy and leading to calls for changes in labor regulation. In this paper, we study the demand for temporary ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes is controversial. There are several studies for developed countries with mixed results, but there is a lack of evidence for developing countries. We have access to ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)We study the effects of violence towards children on early childhood cognitive and noncognitive development. We use data from a longitudinal nationally representative survey of Chilean children to generate estimates of ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)Motivated by the significant increases in international reserves during the 2000s, this paper analyzes the reasons why emerging and developing countries choose to accumulate them. In addition to a traditional measure of ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)Individuals’ labor market performance can be affected directly by their mental health through labor market participation and productivity. Moreover, poor mental health of workers limits labor mobility and hence efficiency ...
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(Wiley, 1985)In 1973, Diewert proposed the use of various Flexible Functional Forms (FFF) for profit functions. Since then, the use of FFF specifications for profit functions in empirical production analysis has become increasingly ...
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(Elsevier, 1977)This paper examines the framework in which the Andean Common Market was created, the provisions of its charter, and the Group's initial achievements. The Andean Common Market was formed in response to the inadequacies of ...
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(Elsevier, 1988)Standard adjustment programs emphasize excessively demand-reducing adjustment mechanisms in economies facing a binding external constraint. The main policy instrument used to induce expenditure-switching and supply effects ...
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(Elsevier, 1988)This paper introduces the excess utility functions which are shown to have all the properties the excess demand functions have. Then, these functions are used to simplify the proofs of existing results about the stability ...
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(Elsevier, 1990)Our model demonstrates that when imports are predominantly intermediate inputs, as in most developing countries, import restrictions cannot be always relied on to generate an improvement in the trade balance. Such restrictions ...
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(Elsevier, 1991)This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of temporary import and export quotas in a two-period optimization model imposing much weaker restrictions on preferences and production technologies than in the existing ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 1991)We consider a two-factor (capital and labour), two-good (consumption and invest- ment goods), one-country, overlapping-generations model. For the case in which the closed economy follows an efficient path we prove that ...
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(Elsevier, 1993)The social rate of return to public investment in industries with fixed real-price supports is studied using a simple general-equilibrium model. Fixed real-price supports are shown to enhance the likelihood of immiserizing ...
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(Elsevier, 1993)The present paper evaluates the effects of alternative trade policy reforms to the Central American Common External Tariff (CET) schedule on the Guatemalan economy. To accomplish this, the paper develops a multiperiod ...
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The environment as a factor of production: the effects of economic growth and trade liberalization (Elsevier, 1994)Economic growth and trade liberalization decrease the degradation of natural resources if and only if producers internalize their stock feedback effects on production. For environmental factors without stock effects on ...
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(Elsevier, 1994)Between 1985 and 1989, the military government (1973-1990) carried out its third round of privatizations, focused on the so-called traditional public enterprises (PEs), i.e., enterprises created by the State itself and ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 1995)In recent years, many Latin American countries (LACs) have embarked upon trade liberalization drives. This article reviews the radical changes in trade policy which this has entailed, together with the current and foreseeable ...
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(Brookings Press (USA), 1995)THE EMPIRICAL INVESTMENT literature is full of disappointments. From time to time waves of new ideas challenge the aggregate investment equation, but these challenges are rarely successful, and progress is, at best, ...
