In this paper the behavior of a tax-collecting government (a tax office) when imposing a quantity-tax to firms is analyzed along a two-period signaling model. Each taxpayer privately knows its technological attributes, while third parties—the tax office among them—have only a prior belief...

This paper tests Bester's (1985, 1987) prediction about the separating role ofcontracts that involve both interest rates and collateral in credit markets. To test thisprediction we use data from natural credit markets and controlled experiments. Using asample of credits to small and medium size...

Spanish abstract: En este artículo sometimos a escrutinio el concepto de “racionalidad”, como ejercicio de la razón. Conforme avanzamos en la investigación quedó claro que esa razón está fundada en un conjunto de valores y principios que le dan validez como decisiones correctas a...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo, que es a la vez una contribución a la historia del pensamiento económico y una aclaración de la teoría del desarrollo económico en la que se basó el Plan de Desarrollo colombiano de 1970-1974, Las cuatro estrategias, discute la propuesta de Paul...

Combining the approaches of Ortiz and Mejía et al., this paper proposes a new model of drug trafficking and conflict. In a general equilibrium framework, an explanation of the downward trend in the price of cocaine over the last two decades is developed. The model shows that the main factor...

The objective of the article is to construct a mathematical model of partial equilibrium in competitive markets with heterogeneous economic agents. On one hand, consumers with Cobb - Douglas preferences, perfect substitute goods, quasilinear and Stone - Geary preferences are considered, in...

We consider the division problems in which a resource must be distributed considering agents' references. We analize this problems in a multidimensional context, we consider that agents have multiple references. For division of the amount available in these situations, we design rules that take...

We consider the division problems in which a resource must be distributed considering agents' references. We analize this problems in a multidimensional context, we consider that agents have multiple references. For division of the amount available in these situations, we design rules that take...