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Incentives and competition in microfinance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We develop a model of competition among socially motivated microfinance instituions (MFIs), where the MFIs offer repayment-based incentive contracts to credit agents. The agents gather information regarding a borrower, and ...
A model of belief influence in large social networks
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
This paper develops a model of evolution of beliefs through communication in an exogenous social network. We
assume that the agents are Bayesian updaters and that the network enables them to listen to the opinion of ...
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 ...
Erratum to: Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-04-11)
El efecto del alfabetismo financiero en el ahorro para el retiro en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
In this paper, we analyze whether it is possible to increase the retirement saving through financial literacy in Mexico. With information from the Mexican Family Life Survey 2005 (MxFLS-2) we build a financial literacy ...
Greetings from the editor-in-chief
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-01-28)
Latin American Economic Review (LAER) is an international, refereed open-access journal dedicated to publishing in English original academic research on economics, with rigorous theoretical and methodological standards. ...
Elite capture of democratic politics: the role of social identity
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
In the present paper we uncover a novel mechanism through which a minority can gain a disproportionate power in a perfectly functioning democracy. In our model, a government elected by majority within a two party democracy, ...
Structural change, marginal land and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-15)
Empirical evidence indicates that in Latin America and the Caribbean, households on less favored, or marginal, agricultural land form a “residual” pool of rural labor. Although the modern sector may be the source of dynamic ...
Pensión proporcional y pensión universal: costo fiscal
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
The Federal Government in Mexico has implemented the provision of a non-contributory transfer under the program “Pensión Universal” for those workers who do not get a pension by Contributory Pension from the Saving System ...
What determines adult cognitive skills?: influences of pre-school, school, and post-school experiences in Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2014-02-13)
Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on longitudinal data to estimate production functions for adult verbal and nonverbal cognitive skills, ...