Para algunos, la distribución del ingreso es el primer ejemplo de una ley de potencia, reglaempírica según la cual una variable aleatoria alcanza valores altos con una probabilidadbaja y valores bajos con una alta probabilidad. En este artículo se verifica si la distribucióndel ingreso de...

The emergence of service offshoring places competitiveness at the centre of the discussion on international trade. The role of cost related factors driving trade performances is debated. However, although services trade becomes more dynamic, service competitiveness factors remain a field largely...

Desde que la globalización se ha convertido en uno de los aspectos de mayor relevancia dentro del estudio de las evoluciones de la economía internacional, la importancia dada al fenómeno de la integración económica se ha incrementado progresivamente. Este fenómeno de globalización está...

Abstract What are the eects of natural disasters on electoral results? Some authors claim that catastrophes have a negative eect on the survival of leaders in a democracy because voters have a propensity to punish politicians for not preventing or poorly handling a crisis. In contrast, this...

En este artículo, primero caracterizamos el mercado de transporte aéreo comercial en Colombia y luego desarrollamos un modelo de reputación que describe la relación entre aerolíneas y consumidores. Con base en el trabajo pionero de Grossman y Hart (1986) modelamos la integración horizontal...

Bouton et al. (2022) compare the properties of majority run-off and plurality rule elections in a laboratory setting, focusing on Duverger's prediction that plurality rule leads to higher levels of strategic voting. They produce a causal estimate of the difference in incidence of strategic...

We study experimentally the properties of the majority runoff system and compare them to the ones of plurality rule, in the setup of a divided majority. Our focus is on Duverger's famous predictions that the plurality rule leads to a higher coordination of votes on a limited number of candidates...

The paper analyses the potential contribution of services as a driving force of economic growth in developing countries within a Kaldorian framework. In doing so, we revisit Kaldor Growth Laws and econometrically test them for a number of economic activities (including four service branches)...