May cartoons be considered as a viable and credible source for the study of economics? There is hardly any research on the subject, even though there is a quite significant amount of cartoons with economic content. This suggests that economics (and economists) have not paid enough attention and...

El trabajo de investigación de MARCELA ANZOLA GIL, que fue calificado por los miembros del jurado con una nota de sobresaliente (cum laude), tiene las tres virtudes de una tesis doctoral: en primer lugar, propone un exhaustivo trabajo de campo, referido al incremento de los flujos de inversión...

We analyze the determinants of subjective returns of higher education in Colombia. The information on expectations has been collected in categories, motivating the use of interval regression and an ordered probit approaches for modeling the relationship between beliefs and measures of ability,...

This paper presents evidence of the effect of the recent phases of the business cycle in Spain and United States, proxied by their respective unemployment rates, on the labor market of Colombian cities with high migration tradition. These countries are the main destination for labor Colombian...

El diseño del sistema de seguridad social en salud y su efectiva implementación es uno de los mas grandes retos de la sociedad, y a su vez es la principal garantía del goce efectivo del derecho a la salud. Un gran desafío de estos sistemas es la administración del riesgo financiero...

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...