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Argentine trade policies in the XX century: 60 years of solitude
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
At the turn of the last century, the Argentine economy was on a path to prosperity that never fully developed. International trade and trade policies are often identified as a major culprit. In this paper, we review the ...
Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns on willingness to pay for improved air quality: a contingent valuation application in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-11-11)
By means of a single-bounded, referendum format contingent valuation, this paper estimates willingness to pay (WTP) for improved air quality among residents of Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA). Findings from this paper ...
A short episodic history of income distribution in Argentina
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
In this paper, we use tax and household survey data to assess the history of income distribution in Argentina since the beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite ...
The effect of coca and FDI on the level of corruption in Bolivia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-05-28)
This paper analyzes the causes of corruption in contemporary Bolivia. It argues that, along with the well-documented observation that richer countries tend, on average, to be less corrupt than poorer ones, corruption is ...
Product competition and R&D investment under spillovers within full or partial collusion games
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-04-29)
The paper investigates firms’ behavior and outcomes (levels of cost-reducing R&D, output, profit and welfare in equilibrium) in a differentiated duopoly with process innovation. One of the important features in this paper ...
Erratum to: Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-11)
A robust Bayesian dynamic linear model for Latin-American economic time series: ‘‘the Mexico and Puerto Rico cases’’
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-07-28)
The traditional time series methodology requires at least a preliminary transformation of the data to get stationarity. On the other hand, robust Bayesian dynamic models (RBDMs) do not assume a regular pattern or stability ...
Time goes by so slowly (for those who wait): a field experiment in health care
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-02-19)
We exploit a unique field experiment to recover the willingness to pay (WTP) for shorter waiting times at a cataract detection clinic in Mexico City, and compare the results with those obtained through a hypothetical ...
Intergenerational transmission of education: the relative importance of transmission channels
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-01-20)
This paper aims at quantifying the relative importance of different transmission channels generating the high levels of intergenerational correlations in education, especially in Latin America. A simultaneous equations ...
Urban transport systems in Latin America and the Caribbean: lessons and challenges
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented ...