El artículo tiene como objetivo analizar el proceso de internacionalización de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES) en Costa Rica. El fin último es generar una reflexión que permita mejorar la información para la toma de decisiones de los múltiples interesados en el proceso: empresas,...

This paper it proposes new economic indicators of investment in infrastructure and house

This paper analyzes the effect that passive investment in rival firms has on the setting of cooperative and non-cooperative environmental taxes. We consider two firms located in different countries, one of which owns a stake in its rival. We show that partial cross-ownership affects the taxes...

In this paper we analyse the endogenous order of moves in a mixed duopoly for differentiated goods. Firms choose whether to set prices sequentially or simultaneously. The private firm maximises profits while the public firm maximises the weighted sum of the consumer and producer surpluses...

Fe y Alegría is a catholic network of schools that started operations in Colombia in 1971, and in 2009 served more than 72,000 students in 61 schools. This paper assesses the performance of Fe y Alegría secondary schools in Colombia using test scores for Spanish and mathematics, as well as...

Higher incomes for women can have significant beneficial impacts for poverty reduction both in the short run by providing more resources to households and in the long run by increasing investments in the human capital of children. Substantial research has been done using microeconomic household...

Between 1998 and 2002 Mexico was host to an intense debate over dollarization. This paper examines the conjunctural factors which led to the emergence of this debate, reviews the main participants in the debate and their arguments, and discusses why the debate ended. We further argue that the...

There is a longstanding tradition of analyzing trade and growth in economics, going back to the discipline's founders. But for Latin America, the debate on the significance of this relationship has had much more than academic relevance. It has been one of the central components of the different...

ResumenEn el presente documento se realiza un análisis de la contribución de las universidades públicas en el desarrollo económico de América Latina, al identificar los canales que inciden en la innovación y puedan éstos ayudar a robustecer la competitividad internacional de la estructura...