Artículos de revistas: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-06)This paper analyses incentives for self-regulation of quality from a principal-agent perspective, in a context of repeated interaction between a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) and consumers who can not observe SRO ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-06)A formal model of the Chilean dual health system is presented, which, for appropriate parameters, replicates the observed age segmentation of the population between the private insurance market and the public health ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)The purpose of this paper is to study the inequality of income between the provinces of Argentina. The data in this paper comes from the traditionally used GDP p.c., as well as from Household survey. The analysis examines ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)Two indicators of the Argentinean economic cycle prove to be useful for economic forecasts, the leading and coincident indexes. The former points out the level of economic activity monthly. The latter anticipates the ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)Based on Becker’s theoretical model, the present paper estimates econometrically the determinants of the crime rate in Argentina for the 1990-1999 period. Like previous empirical applications for Argentina, a significant ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-06)Political instability has been emphasized as a major source of uncertainty in Latin America. However, arbitrariness, i.e. the lack of constraints on the government, can also be seen as a major source of uncertainty in ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-06)The article attempts an assessment of the long-term evolution of poverty in the four Latin American countries for which there is enough historical data. Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Mexico represent a variety of the ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)In this essay I provide a wide-ranging overview of recent research linking medical treatments to productivity and ability to function. The studies that examine how do illness and medical treatments affect absenteeism, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)We have revisited the research about Chilean regional convergence. Using a set of tools from the spatial econometrics we find support for the most of the previous conclusion in the literature about this topic. However, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)During recent decades, the good performance of the export sector has been one of the main sources of fast economic growth in the Chilean economy. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of some public promotion instruments ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2000-12)When it comes to measure the sources of growth and draw economic policy conclusions, economists rely on growth accounting. According to this approach, per capita growth is explained by two sources: capital accumulation ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-06)This working paper analizes with cross-sectional data if the Golden Rule condition satisfies: where the saving index is equal to capital (β) or to the real interest rate, equal to the gross output growth of households.
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-06)The aim of this article is to examine the process of economic growth in the regions of Chile using a time series approach. In particular, we test the hypothesis of a unit root in the log of the ratios of per capita product ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-06)There are several arguments in the literature regarding that more open economies would grow faster in the long term. Nevertheless, the channels through which openness increases growth have not been clearly identified in ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-06)After decades of trial, error, and occasional regress, the pieces of a successful Latin American economic model can be seen scattered among the leading economies of the region. The most traditional macroeconomic maladies ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-12)This paper presents a methodology to build series of purchases, consumption, and stocks of durable goods for the Chilean economy in the 1981-1999 period. The estimated series –both nominal and real– are presented in ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-12)Beginning in 1990 a compensation system for PM-10 emissions from point sources was implemented in Santiago, equivalent to a suboptimal emission permit system (EPS). The objective of the system was to reduce compliance ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-12)Using a three-country reciprocal dumping model, this paper analyses the effects of tariff unions on welfare taking the possibility of production subsidies into account. Production subsidies are found to prevent the ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-12)This article describes the Value at Risk concept, popularized during the last ten or fifteen years, presenting applications on stocks, bonds, interest and exchange rate forward contracts, and swaps. We applied asymmetric ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2001-12)The effort to correct the national accounts in order calculate NNP or related ‘Green GDP’ concepts, known as natural resources accounting, has been a lively research area in the last decade. Two basic methodologies have ...
