Along with several structural reforms, Chile embarked upon a major income tax reform in the eighties. Its basic feature was a significant reduction in the corporate income tax rate. The purpose of this article is to investigate empirically the link between the tax reform and the investment...

A partir de un enfoque esencialmente comparativo, Un gasto que valga: los fondos públicos en Centroamérica y República Dominicana ayuda a comprender la problemática del gasto público en la región, identificando las fortalezas y debilidades de cada país en temas como el nivel y la...

Esta obra es una publicación elaborada por el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para el diálogo de políticas con las autoridades de la República Dominicana. El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en contribuir a la profundización del análisis de algunos de los temas que integran la agenda...

This paper addresses the problem of designing a household waste collection system for rural insular areas using a barge for transportation, based on a novel mixed integer programming model that simultaneously integrates decisions of waste collection sites selection within the islands to be...

The purpose of this paper is lo discuss some issues related to central bank independence in light of the Chilean experience of the last four years. After a theoretical section that discusses the pros and cons of central bank independence, a section is dev

Summary We explore the effects of government subsidies on presidential elections in Chile in 1989-99. We use a panel with three periods (the elections of 1989, 1993, and 1999) and 229 counties. We correct for the potential simultaneity problem deriving from the fact that an incumbent facing a...