The purpose of this article is to analyze the main methodologies put forward for the determination of the social rate of discount in order to describe the central elements that allow to link environmental concerns to existing alternatives for the determination of this rate. Through the...

The present article analyses the evolution of the concentration of the Colombian electrical generation market based on the technological diversification indexes and H-H and C-4 concentration indexes, during the period 1995-2004. Concentration herein is an enterprise behavior which, from the...

There's an existing trend on the current public service dynamics that thinks the State as entity. Such entity is limited to establishing prices and qualities of the services it regulates, based on costs and information offered by agents: thus, full-filling a function essentially technical. The...

The regime utility services in Colombia was established by Law 142, 1994. This law led to the configuration of a mixed model of rendering public utility services in the country. After more than ten years of this law, this article inquires into sustainibility and durability of the current model....

This article describes the integration process of the Nord Pool's electrical market, in addition to establishing some reflections on this experience, which could be important for regions that are undergoing the same process, as is the case of the Andean Community Nations -CAN-. Initially, this...

This article calculates the sheepskin effect on wages in Cali’s labor market, where additional profitability on wages when possessing a high school degree is 25 percent and 12 percent for March and September of 2000, and 45 percent and 37 percent for the same months, respectively, when...