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    • Barrientos, Armando; Firinguetti, Luis (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-06)
      Este artículo pretende verificar si el sistema provisional obligatorio de capitalización individual introducido en Chile en 1981 es apropiado para mujeres de bajos ingresos y empleo irregular. Sobre la base de los datos ...
    • Agosin Trumper, Eduardo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-06)
      This paper examines why the investment rates of Latin American countries have been so low, in comparison with those of the fast growing East Asian countries. First, the paper compare the private and public investment ratios ...
    • Gutierrez L., Héctor (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-06)
      En este trabajo se analiza lo que ha llegado a ser la manera tradicional de cálculo de la tasa social de descuento, basada en el enfoque Harberger. Se argumenta que deberían agregarse algunos refinamientos a las fórmulas ...
    • Serra Banfi, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      This paper analyzes Chilean research and development (R&D) policy. To do so, it describes the institutions responsible for policy design and implementation as well as those which conduct R&D. In addition, it addresses the ...
    • Benavente Hormazábal, José; Crespi T., Gustavo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      The purpose of this paper is to formulate a theoretical framework as an alternative to the neoclassical one in order to find a more consistent explanation to the phenomenon of innovation and the process of growth. This new ...
    • Mantel, Rolf R. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      The usual procedure in the field of optimal growth consists in maximizing a (discounted or not) sum of instantaneous utilities, called welfare. Such an optimality criterion implies that preferences are independent over ...
    • Elías, Víctor J. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      The objective of this paper is to study economic regional convergence in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru using the methodology of Barro and Sala-i-Martin. Even though the regional data on those countries are not as rich as ...
    • Triunfo, Patricia (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      This paper presents estimations of cost functions for a panel of firms from the Uruguayan commercial private banking sector, testing for economies of scale and scope and technical change between 1989 and 1993. Using a ...
    • Meloni, Osvaldo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      El presente trabajo analiza el impacto de las condiciones macroeconómicas provinciales sobre los resultados de la elección presidencial argentina de 1995. Las variables que se revelaron importantes para explicar los ...
    • Ortiz Viedma, Jaime (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      Las implicancias de las políticas de precios agrícolas en el financiamiento de la investigación agropecuaria son explícitamente capturadas a partir de un conjunto de ecuaciones estructurales que cubre un importante período ...
    • Graziani, Carlo; Almansa, Andrés (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      Se presenta un algoritmo para simular numéricamente modelos lineales formulados en tiempo continuo bajo previsión perfecta. Partiendo de los trabajos de Austin y Buiter (1984), se caracteriza primero la familia de modelos ...
    • Dinopoulos, Elias; Thompson, Peter (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1995-12)
      A two-country model of growth is developed with exogenous fluctuations in the rate of technological progress. Technological growth in the leading country follows a random walk, while in the lagging country the rate of ...
    • Hachette de la F., Dominique; Rosende R., Francisco (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      Consideraciones macroeconómicas normalmente ausentes del análisis de los impactos de comercio preferencial. Sin embargo, creación y desviación de comercio pueden inducir efectos no triviales sobre la estabilidad y crecimiento ...
    • Robbins, Donald (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-06)
      This paper examines the impacts of real devaluation, trade liberalization and the growing relative supply of skill on wage dispersion in Colombia’s seven principal cities over 1976-1994. The Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson(HOS) ...
    • Williamson, John (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-12)
      The history of Latin America’s relations with the international capital market has not been a happy one. Debt crises have recurred with monotonous regularity ever since the 1820’s, about three years after the first loans ...
    • Ffrench-Davis Muñoz, Ricardo; Agosín Trumper, Manuel (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-12)
      This paper characterizes the surge of foreign capital inflows into Chile in the 1990s, it describes the policies to deal with these inflows, and analyzes the results of the policy mix used in terms of effectiveness with ...
    • Eatwell, John (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-12)
      The widespread liberalization of international financial flows followed the end of the Bretton Woods system of fixed parities among the world’s major currencies. The trend toward openness has accelerated in the 1980’s and ...
    • Frankel, Jefrey A. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1997-12)
      Some countries undergoing exchange-rate-based stabilization and financial liberalization in Latin America and elsewhere have faced large capital inflows since 1991. Many have tried to sterilize the reserve inflows. Calvo ...
    • Ortiz Molina, Hernán (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      The interest in the monthly, indexes of industrial production is related to the large volume and the cyclical importance of industrial output. Around the 20th of each month, argentine agencies issue estimates of the ...
    • Griliches, Zvi (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      Recent work on the relationship of productivity growth to expenditures on R&D is discussed with special reference to ""unfinished business"": unsolved conceptual and econometric problems. The standard ""R&D as a capital"" ...