Resumen: Este trabajo hace una propuesta de política educativa para Colombia que permita mejorar la calidad de la educación básica, secundaria y media y así convertirla en una herramienta efectiva de movilidad social. Se muestra que Colombia ha tenido avances importantes en cobertura. Sin...

The growing empirical literature on the analysis of civil war has recently included the study of conflict duration at the cross-country level. This paper presents, for the first time, a within-country analysis of the determinants of violence duration. I focus on the experience of the Colombian...

In this paper I investigate the optimal level of decentralization of tasks for theprovision of a local public good. I enrich the well-known trade-off between internalization of spillovers (that favors centralization) and accountability (that favors decentralization) by considering that public...

The separation between ownership and the control of capital in banks generates differences in thepreferences for risk among shareholders and the manager. These differences could imply a corporate governance problem in banks with a dispersed ownership, since owners fail to exert control in the...

El artículo presenta diferentes alternativas a la estratificación socioeconómica de viviendas basados en información catastral para la ciudad de Bogotá, D.C., y evalúa su impacto en cuanto a cambios de estratos de los hogares, errores de inclusión y exclusión e impacto financiero, frente...

Despite a growing body of literature on how environmental degradation can fuel civil war, the reverse effect, namely that of conflict on environmental outcomes, is relatively understudied. From a theoretical point of view this effect is ambiguous, with some forces pointing to pressures for...

The purpose of this expository article is to present a self-contained overview of some results on the characterization of the optimal value function of a stochastic target problem as (discontinuous) viscosity solution of a certain dynamic programming PDE and its application to the problem of...

La Distribución Hiperbólica Generalizada ha sido usada ampliamente como una alternativa ante distribuciones de colas livianas que no se ajustan a los hechos estilizados presentes en los activos financieros, y por su utilidad tanto en la modelación de activos como en la valoración de medidas...

This paper develops a structural model which allows estimating the impact of regulatory decisions looking for the setting of download-speed standards on market structure and performance. We characterize a setting under which quality standards improve both service quality and availability. As to...

Este documento propone un modelo para la estructura a plazos del riesgo interbancario a partir del spread entre los Interest Rate Swap (IRS) y los Overnight Indexed Swaps (OIS) en dólares durante la crisis financiera 2007-08 y la crisis del euro en 2010. Adicionalmente hace la descomposición...