En el recurso de súplica radicado por el ministro de Hacienda ante el Consejo de Estado, por la suspensión provisional del proceso de venta de Isagén, argumenta lo importante que sería esta enajenación para "el desarrollo de la infraestructura de transporte, la generación de empleo y el...

After reading and thinking seriously about the teachings in Tim Harford’s books, The Undercover Economist and the Logic of Life, they confirmed me that every behavior and act, not only in the market but also along life, have hidden interests and everybody is conscious about them. What do I...

This book discusses a model of general equilibrium with a sector generating externalities on another sector with clean production, consumers and nature (natural capital). The scope of efficiency of mitigation policy instruments are analysed simultaneously with the activities of production and...

In this work we are interested in investigating the dynamics of poverty in Colombia during the period 2002-2012. In particular we want to know the effect of the sectorial economic growth, the geographical composition, public social spending, the unemployment rate and the income distribution on...

Se está gestando una propuesta ilusoria de reducir mil pesos el precio de la gasolina. Una aproximación parcial es positiva: se mejoran los ingresos de 14 millones de colombianos, el sector transportador y principalmente quienes tienen varios vehículos y de mayor consumo. Empero, la fuente de...

in this paper we are interested in investigating the determinants of domestic violence. For this goal, we consider that many intra-household choices (on good consumption or choices among a set of alternatives) taken by single individuals produces negative externalities and conflict, which may...

This draft discusses the main instruments to mitigate environmental externalities, considering both the traditional goals of efficiency and equity and restrictions on information and technical and political feasibility. It is analyzed the program "Pico y Placa" in Medellín, a restricting...

En Medellín es urgente insistir en soluciones inteligentes, con más alternativas de transporte masivo. Las actuales, que son lentas como el tranvía, y equivocadas como el metroplús, resultan dañinas para el ambiente.

The concept of social capital has gained importance within economic studies only until the present decade. This article analyses the origin and evolution of the concept of social capital, it also establishes its connection with the economic growth of nations basically through two ways: that...

The form of the Engel curve has long been a subject of discussion in applied econometrics and until now there has no been definitive conclusion about its form. In this paper an additive partially linear model is used to estimate semiparametrically the effect of total expenditure in the context...