This paper studies the long term relationship between economic growth and income distribution in Uruguay during the XX Century, trying to capture the global economic road and social process. There is not evidence for an unique pattern in the relationship between the income distribution and the...

This paper focus on the problems faced in the empirical investigation of the relation between the level and volatility of inflation. Monthly inflation series seem to be affected by both the presence of outliers and conditional heteroscedasticity. First, the paper illustrates the implications...

The goal of this paper is to present the simulation model used in a research on the macroeconomic effects of the law 16.713 that reforms the Uruguayan social security system. It is a version of the overlapping generation models that have been extensively used for the analysis of fiscal and...

This paper presents a case of public – private partnership in road provision in Uruguay. It is a concession where the concessionaire is public owned with a contract so called of present value of expenditure. This scheme is a good solution in a country where people reject private ownership of...

Our concern in this work is to obtain conditions for the uniqueness of equilibria, with commodity bundles as consumption patterns which depend on the state of the world. In the first section we consider an economy with complete markets, where consumption spaces are a finite product of measurable...

In environmental literature there has been an increasing interest on analyzing the income elasticity of environmental amenities, and particularly, of the willingness to pay for an environmental improvement (see Kristrom and Riera, 1996). In this paper we are only concerned with estimating the...

Este estudio extiende la investigación sobre cuidado prenatal y peso al nacer a un país como Uruguay utilizando información del Centro Latinoamericano de Perinatología y Desarrollo Humano. Estos datos son únicos, dado que representan a mujeres en edad reproductiva de bajos recursos y que...

Along the 1990’s there was an increase in the number of people who attended college in Uruguay, both in employment and in the labor force. This article seeks to find if there is evidence of overeducation at the tertiary level, defined as mismatch between supply and demand of that skill level....

A growing strand of economic literature focuses its attention on the relationship between happiness levels and various individual and socioeconomic variables. Recent studies analyze the impact of income, marital status, health, educational levels and other socioeconomic variables on satisfaction...

Uruguay began a general regulatory reform in the 90s. Regarding the telecommunication sector, the main aspect of the reform was the opening up of the mobile market to competition. The auction designed followed the basic idea that had been developed in the American mobile auctions (1994), and...