Regulation is a way of intervention of the public sector, which uses its legitimate and coercive power to establish restrictions to agent’s activities who participate in the market and guarantee the efficient allocation of goods and services and social welfare. In Colombia, as an interesting...

This article aims to make an approach to the definition and meaning of social policies through the theory of contracts, a distinction between these and public policy. For this, the contributions of some officials of the Municipality of Medellín and other municipal organizations in a focus group...

This paper argues that institutionalization is an equilibrium phenomenon and is associated with better policies and better results in terms of economic development. In support of this argument is presented a theoretical model that extends the space of feasible actions for political actors,...

In this work we present a model basis on Bernheim-Whinston model, which considers that political decisions are the result of various interactions between groups with direct influence (GDI) on political decision making. According to our approach, this model stokes up government role which...

En Colombia la democracia ha sido el mecanismo normal para acceder al poder. Sin embargo, desde los albores de la república los enfrentamientos bélicos partidistas y los cambios constitucionales fueron una constante. Este trabajo muestra cómo en el siglo XIX en Colombia, los cambios...

La orientación ideológica de los gobiernos, el momento de las elecciones ylos intereses particulares de los dirigentes pueden afectar de manera importantela política económica en cualquiera de sus componentes. Se puedeesperar que un gobierno establezca sus políticas en materia económica,...

This study describes a framework for analyzing the formation of political and economic costs in setting pollution taxes aimed to control the contamination of water bodies, in 2006-2011, for the Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá and its regulated community. Through an exploratory analysis...

Spanish Abstract: En el presente trabajo se realiza un análisis empírico de la existencia de Ciclos Políticos Económicos (CPE) en el producto, los precios, el impuesto al valor agregado y el impuesto a la renta de Ecuador en el período 1993-2010. Para ello, se emplea modelos autorregresivos...