ABSTRACT: This paper uses a two-sided market model of hospital competition to study the implications of different remunerations schemes on the physicians'side. The two-sided market approach is characterized by the concept of common network externality (CNE)introduced by Bardey et al. (2010)....

Economic literature about determinants of labor income has evolved around its theoretical and methodological foundations and more sophisticated and accurate empirical estimations emerged. Colombian literature, though prolific, lacks on rigor. In order to exemplify the effects of this inattention...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a characterization, different from the traditional ones, of developed and developing countries, in terms of science and technology. First, we identify the generating processes of the publication and patent series of the countries. Then we relate the...

Se presenta aquí, en forma breve, el origen de la matematización económica y el campo de la economía matemática. Un enfoque histórico inicial divide dicho campo en un primer periodo denominado marginalista, otro donde se utiliza la teoría de los conjuntos y modelos lineales y por último...

We examine the long-run relationship between the parallel and the official exchange rate in Colombia over two regimes; a crawling peg period and a more flexible crawling band one. The short-run adjustment process of the parallel rate is examined both in a linear and a non-linear context. We find...

We examine the long-run relationship between the parallel and the official exchange rate in Colombia over two regimes; a crawling peg period and a more flexible crawling band one. The short-run adjustment process of the parallel rate is examined both in a linear and a non-linear context. We find...

Resumen Se presentan argumentos que indican que es necesario, ahora, diseñar una estrategia convincente de generación de superávit fiscales primarios futuros (permanentes) cuyo rango está entre 0.9% y 1.5% del PIB, de manera que el actual nivel de endeudamiento pueda ser juzgado sostenible....

La búsqueda de información basada en las diferentes herramientas que el mercado hadesarrollado, ha convertido a la curva de rendimientos en una de las más utilizadas.Diferentes autores a nivel internacional se han preocupado por investigar y extraerinformación, teniendo en cuenta la...

This paper describes the core features of the power sector 1994 regulatory reform and evaluates utility performance and efficiency before and after the reform. The performance analysis assesses the changes in means and medians of a series of profitability, efficiency, investment, sales of the...

Este artículo describe el modelo de regulación de costos con completa información y el modelo de Baron y Myerson de regulación de monopolios naturales con selección adversa dentro de un esquema de principal-agente en su versión discreta de dos tipos. El modelo resalta las distorsiones...