Existen numerosos estudios acerca de la relación entre la contaminación del aire y las enfermedades respiratorias, pero generalmente han sido realizados en grandes ciudades de países desarrollados donde dicho problema es asociado a las emisiones de fuentes móviles y fijas. Esta...

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...

This paper explores the relationship between economic growth in reference to atmospheric pollution and air quality (CO2 and SO2, respectively) in Uruguay (a small-open economy) through the XX century. Departing from the theory behind the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), a linear relationship...

El Artículo 1o del Decreto 1713 de 2002 definió como uno de los componentes y actividades del servicio público domiciliario de aseo, la transferencia de residuos sólidos previo a su disposición final. Entre tanto, a partir de septiembre de 2005 y abril de 2009 comienzan a operar las...

This study estimates the economic cost of mining pollution on water resources for the years 2008 and 2009 based on the conceptual framework of Environmental Efficiency (Pittman, 1981.1983, Färe et al., 1989, 1993, 2003; Rao, 2000). This framework understands such costs as the mining companies...

Resumen: Mediante el discernimiento del comportamiento estratégico entre regulados y reguladores es posible construir escenarios donde la política ambiental de tasas retributivas en Colombia se desvía de los niveles de contaminación socialmente óptimos. Si también se añade el...

We study the effect of a household subsidy to induce the adoption of more efficient and less polluting wood combustion technologies. We compare, through numerical simulations, several subsidy designs with respect to the impact on aggregate emissions, costs, and cost-effectiveness indicators. Two...