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Objetive: To conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors in adyuvant treatment of hormone receptor-positive, post-menopausal early breast cancer patients.Methods: Effectivity was defined as disease-free survival. By means of a Markov model we estimated the...
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Goodwin's predator prey model predicts cycles in the employment distribution space. After the Cambridge capital controversies this particular model can not be seen as theoretically consistent. However, evidence is provided in favour of non-linear dynamic behaviour for a sample of 67 countries,...
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The article characterises the link between the foreign sector and growth in Colombia 1952-2000. Thirlwall's law was tested and found to be valid for this period. There was a long-term relationship between GDP and export growth, income and price elasticity of demand for imports and the real...
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This paper studies the mechanism for the equity of payments for using the Colombian health system, defined as the possibility of consuming services when the need arises, regardless of the individual's resources. The incentives produced by the payment system are studied, as well as a particular...
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Elasticity of substitution was introduced into economics during the early 1930s. It was discovered independently by Hicks in The Theory of Wages and by Joan Robinson in The Economics of Imperfect Competition, and then was the centre of a polemic involving Kahn and Sraffa, among others. The...
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Spanish Abstract: La incertidumbre en sentido radical no es probabilística, pero como no hay una noción de probabilidad única esta definición general es insuficiente. El artículo presenta en forma histórica las definiciones equiprobabilista, frecuentista y bayesiana de la probabilidad y...
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Spanish Abstract: Los artículos en este número tienen en común que abordan viejos problemas de la teoría del desarrollo, pero los tratan con herramientas modernas. Se trata de una tendencia que puede ser de utilidad, ya que las principales cuestiones relativas al (sub)desarrollo distan...
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Spanish Abstract: Este ensayo analiza tres procesos electorales que tuvieron resultados inesperados: la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea, el rechazo del acuerdo de paz en Colombia y la elección de Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos. Subraya tres aspectos: las predicciones se...
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Spanish abstract: En este documento se propone un método para realizar revisiones sistemáticas de literatura en economía y se dan sugerencias para usar de manera óptima las revisiones de literatura en las distintas fases del proceso de investigación. La metodología propuesta parte de las...
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Spanish Abstract: Este artículo estudia la relación entre el manejo sanitario de la pandemia de COVID-19 y los resultados económicos. Identifica algunos indicadores de mortalidad y económicos que toman en cuenta elementos sociales y culturales. Examina el efecto de los precios del petróleo...
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