We use a unique data set at the individual level to estimate an empirical model explaining the probability of young individuals to become criminals as a function of the presence of adult criminals in their neighborhoods, an a complete set of control variables, including census sector fixed...

En este trabajo se estudian los determinantes de la oferta y demanda de la cartera comercial en Colombia, tanto a nivel macroeconómico como usando información por empresas, por medio de un modelo de desequilibrio que permite analizar posibles restricciones de crédito. Para esto se usa...

Under the view that the market is a weighted and directed network (Barabási, 2003), this document is a first attempt to model the Colombian money market within a spatial econometrics framework. By estimating two standard spatial econometric models, we study the cost of collateralized borrowing...

Based on individual data on the population of those arrested in Medellín, we assess whether the change in punishment at age 18, mandated by law, has a deterrent effect on arrests. No deterrent effect was found on index, violent or property crimes, but a deterrence effect was found on non-index...

En este documento se presenta un índice de precios de vivienda nueva ajustado por cambios en la calidad de los inmuebles para la ciudad de Bogotá. Para ello se utilizó la base de datos de La Galería Inmobiliaria para el período 2003-2013. El indicador se construyó utilizando el modelo...

En este documento se estudian los determinantes de la heterogeneidad observada en la flexibilidad de precios, empleando los resultados encontrados en una encuesta directa por Misas et al. (2009). Para esto se utilizan los modelos de conteo y se diseñan e implementan un conjunto de pruebas de...

We use data of neighborhoods of Bogotá to assess the causal relation between their adolescent fertility and their homicide rates. We find that neighborhoods with high adolescent fertility rates, and that have low secondary enrollment and high crime rates at the moment the children of their teen...

The empirical literature about economic growth has usually ignored spatial interdependence among countries. This paper uses spatial econometrics to estimates a growth model that includes cross-country interdependence, in whitch a country's economic growth depends on the growth rate of its...

La oferta laboral está determinada por la decisión de participar en el mercado laboral. Este documento reporta los resultados de la estimación econométrica de un modelo de la tasa de participación (siete ciudades) para cuatro categorías de miembros del hogar(hombres jefes, mujeres...

The existence of wage differentials across sectors is a widely observed phenomenon. This paper provides new elements to understand inter and intra-sectoral wage differentials in Colombia by analysing a wage setting survey of 1305 firms and emphasizing the role of firm characteristics. The...