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    • Porto, Alberto; Urbiztondo, Santiago (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1993-12)
      En este trabajo se realiza un análisis teórico de la regulación económica, poniendo énfasis en las distorsiones (y el costo de sus soluciones) que se generan por la presencia de asimetrías en la información disponible para ...
    • Da Rocha Alvarez, José María (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1993-12)
      El objeto de este artículo es introducir al lector en el diseño de contratos en un mercado de selección adversa, es decir, cuando las decisiones del principal dependen de alguna característica que es información privada ...
    • Lippman, Steven A.; McCall, John J. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1993-12)
      In this paper we trace the evolution of economic search theory and the concomitant accumulation of insights so as to elucidate is successes as well as its central location within the economics of information. The reason ...
    • Tommasi, Mariano; Vatter, Jaime (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1993-12)
      This paper presents a brief introduction to the topics covered by the Economics of Uncertainty and Information. We focus on the impact of this fields to issues relevant for Latin America.
    • Accinelli, Elvio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      In this paper we prove the existence of an equilibrium theorem and we obtain a condition for uniqueness of equilibrium in infinite dimensional economics using the excess utility function.
    • Dasgupta, Swapan; Mitra, Tapan (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      In the literature on price characterization of optimal paths in stationary models of optimal growth, distinct “transversality conditions” have been presented, depending on whether or not utilities are discounted. In the ...
    • Riveros Cornejo, Luis; Balmaceda, Felipe (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      En este trabajo se estiman empíricamente las diferencias salariales por género existentes en El Salvador. Se trata de una economía caracterizada por un alto subempleo y una significativa pobreza estructural, por lo cual ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      The inhability of the agricultural sector to maintain the relative income level of the population devoted to the sector has been called the “farm problem” in the literature. The analytical wok on the farm problem” has been ...
    • Ossa, Fernando (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      En este trabajo se analizan los aspectos teóricos de la unificación monetaria, comenzando por un estudio de la teoría tradicional de áreas monetarias óptimas. El estudio contiene una discusión de otros aportes más recientes ...
    • Sanguinetti, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      It is well known that the fiscal performance of a country is actually determined by the interaction of may fiscal authorities within the public sector. The purpose of this paper is to present a simple model that adopts a ...
    • Leijonhufvud, Axel (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-12)
      The paper surveys the consequences of high inflation for the domestic financial system. The damage that these inflations do to the institutions and markets that finance the growth of financially stable countries is briefly ...
    • Paredes Molina, Ricardo; Riveros Cornejo, Luis (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      Using a statistical technique to correct for the presence of the selectivity bias, this paper estimates gender wage gaps in Chile for the period 1958-1990. Gender wage gaps are decomposed into an “endowment” effect –associated ...
    • Málaga, Guillermo Tomás (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      The issue of wage indexation in the economic literature is well understood from the point of view of its macroeconomic consequences. Nevertheless, its effects as a regulatory intervention on the labor market have been ...
    • Marshall, Ray; Van Adams, Arvil (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      Measures assuring job security are sought by workers and their representatives to protect themselves against economic fluctuations and the loss of jobs and incomes. In sectors of an economy that require a skilled workforce ...
    • Allen, Steven G.; Cassoni, Adriana; Labadie, Gaston J. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      This study compares evidence on wage rigidity in Chile and Uruguay to determine whether differences in labor market flexibility could have had an impact on the very different patterns of unemployment observed in the two ...
    • Fiszbein, Ariel (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      The paper proposes the principles which should guide the design of a compensation package for redundant workers following a program of voluntary retrenchment. It is argued that the compensation should be equal to the ...
    • Castelar Pinheiro, Armando; Ramos, Lauro (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      This paper shows that there is a large inter-industry wage dispersion in the Brazilian labor market, that persists after controlling for differences in workers’ productive attributes and job characteristics. The wage ...
    • Robbins, Donald (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      It has traditionally been hypothesized that moving from Protectionist to liberalized trade in developing countries (LDCs) will decrease the relative wages of skilled versus unskilled labor (or “relative wages”). Trade ...
    • Vargas, Juan-Rafael (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      Este documento informa de una investigación sobre los salarios mínimos en Costa Rica y su relación con el contexto macroeconómico global. Las principales variables que se incorporan en el análisis son el salario promedio ...
    • López Vega, Ramón (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1994-11)
      It is shown that long-held views on the links between minimum wages and human capital arising from on-the-job training are not in general valid in a general equilibrium context. Of the three propositions obtained from ...