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    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      A brief summary of the evolution of economic policies and growth in Chile since 1973 is presented, distinguishing between four periods: 1973-89 with average growth of 2.9 percent, 1990-98 with 7.1 percent (notably above ...
    • Sakellariou, Dikaios; Rotarou, Elena S. (Biomed Central Ltd., 2017)
      Neoliberal reforms lead to deep changes in healthcare systems around the world, on account of their emphasis on free market rather than the right to health. People with disabilities can be particularly disadvantaged by ...
    • Otero, Gabriel; Carranza, Rafael; Contreras Guajardo, Dante (SAGE Publications Inc, 2017)
      This article studies the effects of the neighborhood in which a school is located on children’s mathematics achievement in Chile. It uses data taken from a sample of 127,020 sixth grade students measured by the National ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Puentes Encina, Esteban (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      This paper examines inequality of opportunity for Chilean children starting from an early age. It uses a psychometric test designed to assess children’s receptive vocabulary (PPVT), height, and weight as opportunity ...
    • Bonilla Meléndez, Claudio (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
      A key result in macroeconomics is the "time inconsistency of short-run optimal plans." It is argued that inflationary bias results if central bankers do not precommit to a monetary policy rule. The macro literature, however, ...
    • Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Merigó Lindahl, José; Coronado Martínez, Freddy (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2017)
      Over the last few years an increasing number of scientific studies related to innovation research has been carried out. The present study analyses innovation research developed between 1989 and 2013. It uses the Web of ...
    • Sakellariou, Dikaios; Rotarou, Elena S. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)
      Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate differences in access to healthcare between people with and without disabilities in the UK. The hypotheses were that: (1) people with disabilities would be more likely ...
    • Marinao Artigas, Enrique; Chasco Yrigoyen, Coro; Torres Moraga, Eduardo; Barra Villalón, Cristóbal (Elsevier, 2017)
      Trust has become a relevant concern for tourist destinations. Partly because of the novelty of the research on trust in the tourism literature, there are several open questions regarding the antecedents of trust towards a ...
    • Martínez Harms, María José; Bryan, Brett A.; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio; Pliscoff, Patricio; Runting, Rebecca K.; Wilson, Kerrie A. (Elsevier, 2017)
      Scenarios provide a platform to explore the provision of ecosystem services under global change. Despite their relevance to land-use policy, there is a paucity of such assessments, particularly in developing countries. Central ...
    • López Bohle, Sergio; Bal, P. Matthijs; Jansen, Paul G. W.; Leiva Neuenschwander, Pedro; Mladinic Alonso, Antonio (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      This study aimed to investigate how mass layoffs impact surviving employees in organizations. More specifically, this study ascertained the relationships between mass layoffs and employee work behaviors. It was theorized ...
    • Fugarolas Alvarez-Ude, Guadalupe; Hervés Beloso, Carlos; Moreno García, Emma; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Springer, 2009)
      In this paper we recast a differential information economy as a strategic game in which players propose net trades and prices. Pure strategy Nash equilibria are strong and determine both consumption plans and commodity ...
    • Gutiérrez, Mauro; Núñez Errázuriz, Javier; Rivera Cayupi, Jorge (Naciones Unidas, 2009)
      Un supuesto de gran parte de los estudios empíricos sobre la criminalidad es que víctimas y victimarios conviven en una misma unidad geográfica, lo cual implica utilizar los rasgos socioeconómicos del lugar de residencia ...
    • Cataldo, Alejandro; Ferrer, Juan Carlos; Miranda Pino, Jaime; Rey, Pablo A.; Saure, Antoine (Springer, 2017)
      The examination timetabling problem (ETTP) consists in the assignment of specific dates to the exams of a set of courses assuming that the course enrollments are known. This problem is also known as post-enrollment ETTP. ...
    • Rodríguez Paredes, Mauricio (Universidad de Chile, 2017-08)
      En los últimos años, el transporte privado de pasajeros ha ido cobrando cada vez mayor importancia en Chile. La entrada del Transantiago, dio paso a que las empresas privilegiaran este medio de transporte, para trasladar ...
    • Moráles, Marco; Larraín Ríos, Guillermo (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2017)
      The Chilean electronic market for annuities was created in 2004 in order to correct several malfunctions of the market for annuities. The Chilean pension system is composed of two phases. During the accumulation phase, ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; Görg, Holger (Elsevier, 2009)
      This paper investigates three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic firms? Does the exit probability of multinationals depend on its export orientation?, and Does the ...
    • Álvarez Espinoza, Roberto; López, Ricardo A. (John Wiley, 2009)
      This paper examines the effect of changes in the real exchange rate on skill upgrading in the case of Chile. Using plant‐level data from the manufacturing sector, we find that a real depreciation increases the share of ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (Naciones Unidas, 2009)
      Una de las características de la globalización ha sido la marcada volatilidad de las corrientes financieras. La constatación de que ella afectaba el crecimiento y la equidad condujo a que en la Conferencia Internacional ...
    • Benavente, José Miguel; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Mairesse, Jacques (Taylor and Francis, 2009)
      This article jointly estimates price-cost mark-ups and union bargaining power of manufacturing firms in France, Belgium and Chile. Our GMM results provide strong evidence of price-cost mark-ups being underestimated when ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo (De Gruyter, 2010)
      This is one of the journal's symposia entitled "The Return of Counter-Cyclical Policies."