Dieciocho gobernadores de los departamentos donde las loterías no funcionan o dan pérdidas han propuesto que en el país se apueste a una lotería única, idea que no es nueva. El lector, experto en análisis de economía aplicada, nos explica en este punto de vista una curiosa paradoja por la...

This article presents an analysis of the components of the regulation and performance of the sector of Colombian transmission of electricity in the 1994-2002 and implemented scheme of bidding for the expansion. The main characteristics of the organization of the electrical industry and the...

This paper analyzes the institutional problems of the electrical industry in Colombia from the perspectives of neoinstitutionalism, regulation, agency models and contracts. Regulation is perceived as a set of interest groups that seeks wealt redistribution. This intervention involves multiple...

This article presents a statistical analysis of the quality of regulation of the Colombian electrical industry based on the economic classification of the rules issued by the National Commission on Energy and Gas. Regulation is understood as a contractual relationship among different interest...

This article presents an approach to the institutions and regulations derived from the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. It is analyzed the performance of emission reductions markets during its three years of operations, mainly the instability of prices in European markets and their relationships...

The search for the main determinants of economic growth of nations as well as the present lack of an explanatory model for macroeconomic phenomena necessarily lead us to the need of a synthesis or explanatory theory. In this sense, the main theoretical findings base on the basic neoclassical...

In Colombia, in spite of the changes carried out with the reform of 1994, in the sector of drinking water the structural problems persist in many municipalities. They are associated to the quality, efficiency, continuity, coverage, and availability of the resource ; besides, the goals of...

Algunos analistas en el país sostienen la hipótesis de que el proceso de desaceleración económica que se viene observando desde el años pasado en Colombia es consecuencia directa de la crisis económica mundial promovida por EE.UU. desde mediados de 2007 y potencializada por la crisis del...

In 2008, the macroeconomic context in Colombia worsened significantly over the previous year: the economy grew at a rate of 2,5%, registering a strong deceleration of GDP compared with 2007 (7,5%); the inflation rate increased to 7,7%, and there was an important deterioration of some labor...