This article tries to reconcile economic-industrial policy with health policy when dealing with biomedical innovation and welfare state sustainability. Better health accounts for an increasingly large proportion of welfare improvements. Explanation is given to the welfare losses coming from the...

This paper evaluates how third level of attention hospitals in Bogotá choose between different contractual arrangements with health maintenance organizations (HMO), using criteria which seek to reduce transaction costs. Williamson’s theoretical framework is used as a basis for an empirical...

Colombia adopted a health care system with regulated competition in the interaction of several markets: insurance, medical services, hospitalization and drugs. In this regulatory scheme, a collegiate body and two central dependencies of the executive branch intervene. Overall, the regulation...

Spanish Abstract: Este texto se propone abordar la problemática existente en torno a las fallas en la prestación del servicio de agua potable a la comunidad de Yopal desde 2011, asociada a la ausencia de un acueducto que provea del líquido a dicha población. La deficiencia en la prestación...

Spanish Abstract: En este documento se analizan los esquemas público y privado del servicio domiciliario de aseo de la ciudad de Bogotá en materia de tarifas, eficiencia e impactos sociales. Además, se hacen sugerencias de política para una organización adecuada del sistema de aseo

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...

This paper evaluates the main measures that have been used to regulate the interconnection prices in the telecommunication sector. We show that many of the regulations that are applying the vast majority of countries have very little theoretical support, and we identify the restrictions that...

En este trabajo se realiza un estudio de los cambios en la productividad explicados por el cambio técnico en el sector eléctrico español durante el período de vigencia del sistema regulatorio denominado Marco Legal y Estable. Para ello, hemos estimado una función de costes cuadrática de...

En el presente trabajo se hace un análisis descriptivo de los mecanismos de regulación económica del servicio de telefonía pública básica conmutada local en Colombia entre los años 1999 a 2008, y se estudian sus desarrollos, se describe su funcionamiento, sus características económicas...

Following the Hotelling model of spatial competition used by Massoud and Bernhardt (2002) to analyze competition in ATM fees, in this paper we analyze the effects of banning fees on the usage of ATMs by account holders. We find that the prohibition also reduces the fees charged to non-account...