Based upon a standard Crepon, Duguet and Mairesse (1998), CDM, model and data at firms’ level, this paper analyzes the interrelationship between firms’ science, technology and innovation (STI) activities and their labor productivity in Peru for the year 2004. The effects of some constraints...

The evidence at the micro level shows, that in the booming period, the rate of growth of labor productivity of the manufacturing sector is mainly explained by the labor productivity rate of growth of formal medium and large size firms rather than for nonfarm informal microenterprises of the...

This paper takes a macro and micro levels of analysis with the purpose to understand the dynamic of labor productivity in Peru throughout period 1997-2007 wherein two sub-periods are identified: a deceleration or ‘recession’ period, 1997-2001 of slow GDP economic growth and decreasing terms...

El volumen reúne un conjunto de propuestas de política económica en diferentes sectores elaboradas por profesores del Departamento de Economía. Estas propuestas fueron elaboradas de cara al proceso electoral del 2011.

This paper estimates the impact of preferential trade arrangements (PTAs) on relative prices and supplied quantity of a representative nontradable agricultural product, Maiz Amilaceo, produced in the four poorest regions of Peru, located in the Sierra Sur for the period 1971-2005. Two key...

The main rationale for the implementation of structural reforms favoring free markets is that they, through increased competition, are likely to create incentives to improve the way firms operate i.e. firm efficiency. In this study we measure and analyze total factor productivity and technical...

Este trabajo forma parte de un conjunto de propuestas de política económica en diferentes sectores elaboradas por profesores del Departamento de Economía. Estas propuestas fueron elaboradas de cara al proceso electoral del 2011.

Las contribuciones de este volumen se corresponden con la diversidad y riqueza del trabajo de Javier Iguiñiz: desde las preguntas de la economía clásica hasta el enfoque de las capacidades, pasando por la evaluación del debate entre economistas sobre qué es el desarrollo y qué rol juegan...

Empirical research indicates that the volatility of stock return time series have long memory. However, it has been demonstrated that short memory processes contaminated with random level shifts can often be confused as being long memory. Often this feature is referred to as spurious long...