The economic slowdown experienced in Colombia since 1980 is explained by the structural stagnation of the national economy and the escalation of violence associated with the expansion of drug trafficking. The available data do not reject this hypothesis. The article sustains that...

Studies in economic growth have focused on the convergence hypothesis for regions, territories and groups of countries. The main idea is that on the long run, the poorer regions would catch up to the richer in terms of Gross Domestic Product Per Capita. This paper analyses the economic...

Studies in economic growth have focused on the convergence hypothesis for regions, territories and groups of countries. The main idea is that on the long run, the poorer regions would catch up to the richer in terms of Gross Domestic Product Per Capita. This paper analyses the economic...

Spanish Abstract: El ritmo de crecimiento económico japonés fue sustancialmente mayor que el exhibido por el conjunto de las economías desarrolladas entre 1985 y 1995; posteriormente ha sido menor. ¿Qué explica esta declinación relativa? De acuerdo con los resultados econométricos de un...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo de este estudio es determinar el impacto de la banda ancha en Colombia a nivel municipal sobre el valor agregado en municipios. A partir de información de penetración de banda ancha fija, y de usuarios de telefonía móvil con cobertura de internet móvil 4G en...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the influence of Argentina and Brazil on the Uruguayan economy between 1980 and 2002. The analysis of the relations between the regional GDPs indicated the existence of a long-term equilibrium between the growth rates of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay....

<u><strong>Resumen</strong></u>En los últimos años se ha generado un continuo debate en Latinoamérica acerca de la dolarización debido a su implementación en algunos países de la región como Ecuador en el año 2000 y El Salvador en el año 2001, y el uso de políticas de tipo de cambio fijo como la...

This paper discusses the economic crises in Spain, from the Great Depression to current recession. Institutional economics offers the theoretical framework for identifying and analyzing the institutions and the rules of the game that have triggered or aggravated the economic crises. This work...

This work analyzes the process of convergence of the per capita incomes of Mexico and the USA from 1954 to 2008. It was found a point of rupture occurring in this process in the last quarter of 1982. It is analyzed the gap between the levels of their per capita incomes and find that it was...

Ireland’s remarkable economic growth during the last decades, following its successful peace treaties, has caught the attention of countries with ongoing internal conflicts, such as Colombia. The Irish case’s analysis must enable the extraction of valuable lessons regarding how –apart from...