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This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …
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unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa mine how different labor market regulations affect the distribution of …
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local markets in Chile. Public pharmacies sell the same drugs at a third of private pharmacy prices, because of stronger …
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their health care and behaviors. We leverage a natural experiment in Chile's public healthcare system that sent reminders …
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In this essay, I analyze Salvador Allende's economic policies in Chile during the early 1970s. I argue that the …
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In this paper I analyze, within the context of the new 'financial architecture,' the relationship between exchange rate regimes, capital flows and currency crises in emerging economies. The paper draws on lessons learned during the 1990s, and deals with some of the most important policy...
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Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a … two countries was the earlier policy reforms in Chile that generated faster productivity growth. The most crucial of these …
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There are many industries in which potentially competitive segments require services provided by natural monopoly bottlenecks (essential facilities). Since it is difficult to regulate these facilities, developing countries are using Demsetz auctions, where the facility is awarded to the firm...
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distinguish such a regime from a floating exchange rate. We apply the econometrics, first, to the example of Chile and, second, by …
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of trade liberalization on plant productivity in the case of Chile …. Chile presents an interesting setting to study this relationship since it underwent a massive trade liberalization that …
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