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    • Batarce, Jaime A.; Orellana, Oscar F. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-06)
      En el presente trabajo, se investiga y analiza el óptimo arreglo comercial o las posiciones en instrumentos financieros que debe mantener Codelco con su cliente y/o en el mercado. El resultado de la presente investigación, ...
    • Mantel, Rolf R. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      In the field of optimal growth theory, since Ramsey's time it is frequent to maximize a welfare function consisting of the discounted sum of instantaneous utilities. Such an optimality criterion implies that preferences ...
    • Elías, Víctor J.; Fuentes, Rodrigo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      The main objective of this paper is to analyze the degree of regional economic convergence in the Southern Cone, using regional data of Argentina and Chile during the 1960-1985 period. This study found a more rapid convergence ...
    • Schmidt-Hebbel Dunker, Klaus; Servén, Luis (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      The world's average saving rate has declined for the last two decades but country saving rates exhibit a large dispersion, especially in developing regions. While in a small number of developing countries saving has risen ...
    • Lüders, Rolf J. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
      This paper studies the comparative economic record of Chile from immediately after Independence (1820) to the present, as a first step to relate economic policies to that performance in an Economic History to be written. ...
    • Montenegro, Claudio E. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-06)
      This paper applies newly developed techniques in the estimation of earnings functions to compute private rates of return for education in Chile. Although studies concerning the rate of return for education in Chile are ...
    • García Cebro, Juan Antonio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-06)
      In this paper we construct and analyze a two-sector model of international trade characterized by the hypothesis of imperfect simultaneous intersectoral mobility of capital and labor. In this framework of analysis it is ...
    • Ureta, Manuelita (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-06)
      This paper presents an empirical analysis for the two basic dimensions of the unemployment phenomena: incidence and duration in the urban labor market in Paraguay. The analysis uses the most recent data available, the ...
    • Bárcena-Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Espinosa, María Paz (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-06)
      In this article we analyze the choice, for strategic reasons, of the way in which a firm organizes itself with reagard to the degree of production decisions. We show that the organizational form can be used together with ...
    • Ross, Levine (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-12)
      In spite of the recent theoretical and empirical work that suggests that financial Systems exert a first-order, causal impact on economic growth, economists are still not very able of providing policy makers with detailed ...
    • De Gregorio, José (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-12)
      This paper analyzes the relationship between international financial integration and economic growth. Recent literature, surveyed in this paper, emphasizes the role of financial deepening on economic growth. Less attention ...
    • Streb, Jorge M. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-12)
      An incumbent’s drive for reelection can lead to political budget cycles. The distortion cycles cause in economic policy may be offset by the information they indirectly provide about the incumbent's competency. The ...
    • Elías, Víctor J. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-12)
      This paper studies the convergence in output per capita in 7 Latin American Economies, during the period 1960-1995, breaking it down on its two main determinants: total input and total factor productivity. Total input is ...
    • Accinelli, Elvio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-06)
      Our concern in this paper is to obtain conditions for the uniqueness of equilibria, with, commodity bundles as consumption patterns which depend on the state of the world. In the first section we consider an economy with ...
    • Varela Santamaría, Ramón; Novo Peteiro, José A. (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-06)
      Este trabajo presenta una revisión sistematizada de las aproximaciones a la modelización bancaria, prestando especial atención a los desarrollos recientes surgidos a partir de la aplicación de la economía de la información. ...
    • Foteza, Alvaro (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-06)
      Excess distortions in goverment transfer policies might result from the goverment lack of ability to commit not to help unlucky agents. Incentive considerations that are crucial in standart insurance in the presence of ...
    • Tokman Ramos, Marcelo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1999-06)
      the paper explores the relationship betweent the distribution of wealth and income, the institutional environment and the growth rate of an economy. A formal model is developed in which the members of society determine, ...
    • Rosende R., Francisco (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-06)
      This paper provides a wide-ranging overview of recent research in economic growth theory that emphasizes the importance of the response of economic growth process to changes in global productivity (GP). The research ...
    • Bennett, Herman; Schmidt-Hebbel Dunker, Klaus; Soto, Claudio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-06)
      This paper presents new sector saving series for Chile. The annual series for 1960-1997 are disaggregated by six sectors: external sector, general government, public enterprises, central banks, private firms, and households. ...
    • Montero, Juan Pablo; Cifuentes, Luis; Soto, Felipe (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-06)
      International efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2008-2012 can have implications on Chile’s economy. Although less developed countries are not asked to limit their emissions yet, they have the possibility to ...