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Does the commodities boom support the export led growth hypothesis?: evidence from Latin American countries
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2016-10-20)
Commodity prices are characterized by boom and bust cycles. In this article, the impact of the commodity boom of the 2000s on Latin American and Caribbean economies is studied by analyzing four categories of commodity ...
Urbanization as a fundamental cause of development
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
I review the current theoretical and econometric literature on the economic
dynamics of urbanization and its relation to economic growth. I then report
research results on the short- and long-term impacts of urbanization ...
Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-11-11)
Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world. Its urbanization rate of almost 80 % is comparable to that of high-income countries. However, cities in the region are struggling to ...
Impact of U.S. biofuel policy in the presence of drastic climate conditions
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2014)
We analyze the impact of total and partial waivers of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) under uncertain changes in climate conditions that affects crop yields distributions. The main model results show that reducing ...
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 ...
Does access to health insurance reduce the risk of miscarriages?: evidence from Mexico’s Seguro Popular
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-10-07)
This paper analyzes whether Mexico’s de-facto non-contributory health insurance program Seguro Popular had an effect on the risk of miscarriage during pregnancy. Using data on pregnancies over the 2004–08 period from the ...
On the existence of sharecropping
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
When tenancy contracts are subject to ex-post limited liability, it is optimal for the landlord to offer the tenant the entire crop share since full incentive leads to higher production even in the bad state of the nature, ...
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 ...
Evolución de las disparidades en el desarrollo económico y humano de América Latina: análisis del IDH y sus componentes
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Ecónomicas, 2013)
El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo analizar el crecimiento y la convergencia en el desarrollo humano de los países latinoamericanos, agrupados en áreas de interés económico, a partir del índice de desarrollo humano ...
Measuring the efficiency of public schools in Uruguay: main drivers and policy implications
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2015-05-05)
The aim of this research is to explore the existence of inefficient behaviors in public high schools in Uruguay and identify its potential drivers. To do so, we perform a two-stage model using PISA 2009 and 2012 databases. ...