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Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium : Theory and Evidence

Urquiola, Miguel S. - 2010

This paper examines how schools choose class size and how households sort in response to those choices. Focusing on the highly liberalized Chilean education market, we develop a model in which schools are heterogeneous in an underlying productivity parameter, class size is a component of school...

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One Cost of the Chilean Capital Controls : Increased Financial Constraints for Smalles Traded Firms

Forbes, Kristin J. - 2010

Chile from 1991-98. Previous empirical assessments of the encaje conclude that it may have generated some small economic … of small and medium-sized companies in Chile, however, claim that the encaje made it substantially more difficult to …-equation framework. Results indicate that during the encaje, smaller traded firms in Chile experienced significant financial constraints …

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Retirement Policy and Annuity Market Equilibria : Evidence from Chile

Illanes, Gaston - 2019

. We study how retirement policy in Chile, which limits the drawdown of retirement assets but otherwise does not provide or …

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When and How to Use Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure : Lessons from the International Experience

Engel, Eduardo - 2020

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a new organizational form to provide public infrastructure over the last 30 years. Governments find them attractive because PPPs can be used to avoid fiscal check-and-balances and increase spending. At the same time, PPPs can lead to important...

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Intellectual Property Use in Middle Income Countries : The Case of Chile

Fink, Carsten - 2018

in Chile over the decade 1995-2005 as the then middle-income country experienced rapid economic growth. Using a novel …

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The Industrialization of South America Revisited : Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010

della Paolera, Gerardo - 2018

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …

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Estimating Lost Output from Allocative Inefficiency, with an Application to Chile and Firing Costs

Petrin, Amil - 2016

We propose a new measure of allocative efficiency based on unrealized increases in aggregate productivity growth. We show that the difference in the value of the marginal product of an input and its marginal cost at any plant - the plant-input "gap" - is exactly equal to the change in aggregate...

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