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Coordination incentives for information acquisition with a finite set of players
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
We consider a class of two-player quadratic games under incomplete
information to study the relation between exogenous coordination motives
and strategic interactions in information acquisition. The players make
decisions ...
Combate a la informalidad: ¿más monitoreo fiscal o menos monopolios?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
Some authors argue that the informal sector is one of the causes of underdevelopment; some others that it is only a symptom. The first group recommends an increase in tax enforcement in order to reduce the sector; the ...
How relevant has been the learning-by-doing for Brazilian sugarcane ethanol production?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper examines the role of several factors in reducing the production costs of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, including learning-by-doing (LBD), economies of scale, rising factor prices, market competitiveness, and ...
Optimal gasoline tax in developing, oil-producing countries: the case of Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
This paper uses the methodology of Parry and Small (2005) to estimate the optimal gasoline tax for a less-developed, oil-producing country. The relevance of the estimation relies on the differences between less-developed ...
La deuda pública en México: propuesta de un sistema de alerta temprana
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
Este trabajo propone el diseño de un sistema de alerta temprana (SAT) para evaluar la ocurrencia de una crisis de deuda pública en México. Para su construcción se usó la teoría de detección de señales, basada en estadística ...
Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, ...
Transmission investment in the Peruvian electricity market: theory and applications
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
This research presents an application of the Hogan, Rosellón and Vogelsang
(2010) (HRV) mechanism —that promotes electricity transmission network
expansion— in the Peruvian electricity transmission system known as ...
Cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma with short-run players
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
This paper studies cooperative behavior in communities with a subset of short-run players. This is done in the context of a repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma game. The introduction of a short-run player in the population breaks ...
Ideology, swing voters, and taxation
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Ideas about ethnicity, religion, and nationalism among others, which we label “ideology”, seem to affect the preferences of voters, political parties and finally, the equilibrium policy. In this paper we provide a ...
An assignment model of monitored finance
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We develop an incentive contracting model of firm formation. Entrepreneurs of private equity firms who differ in net worth are required to borrow from institutional investors in order to finance start up projects. Investors, ...