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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. ...
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 ...
An estimation of CPI biases in Argentina 1985–2005 and its implications on real income growth and income distribution
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2018-02-02)
We use the shifts in Engel curves calculated from household surveys to estimate CPI biases in Argentina between 1985 and 2005. We find that real earning levels increased during this period between 4.3 and 5.7% faster per ...
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 ...
Un análisis empírico de redes sociales: características y recursos asociados
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
In this article we analyze how different characteristics of a social network are associated to different types of resources required by the individuals that constitute the network and their objectives. To attain this goal, ...