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In this paper, we review the main issues under discussion in the field of economics of education, with a special focus on Latin America. We seek to organize the debate about educational policies by showing how these policies respond to different models based on different assumptions and...
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Successful economic growth followed by Chile, based on open market and export strategy, is characterised by a high dependence on natural resources, and by polluting production and consumption patterns. There is an increasing concern about the need to make potentially significant trade-offs...
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Copula modeling has become an increasingly popular tool in finance to model assets returns dependency. In essence, copulas enable us to extract the dependence structure from the joint distribution function of a set of random variables and, at the same time, to separate the dependence structure...
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Este trabajo evalúa los pro y contra de la integración vertical en el sector eléctrico. Las principales conclusiones son las siguientes: (i) si bien la integración vertical no es mala per se, la mayoría de sus ventajas surgen cuando existen monopolios separados de transmisión y...
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This article presents a model to select the optimal hedge ratios of a portfolio comprised of an arbitrary number of commodities. In particular, returns dependency and heterogeneous investment horizons are accounted for by copulas and wavelets, respectively. We analyze a portfolio of London Metal...
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Is a tax increase always detrimental for capital formation? This paper estimates a long-run demand for capital in Chile, and studies the responsiveness of firms’ desired capital stock to variations in tax rates. We combine the neoclassical model with a cointegration argument to obtain a...
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Most Latin American economies in the 1980’s and early 1990’s were burdened with extremely high inflation rates. Chile’s strategy to strengthen its financial market was to rely on inflation-linked securities. Indeed, indexation pervaded the whole economy for almost thirty years. However,...
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El uso del análisis probabilístico puede ser muy útil para la gestión de riesgos en países en desarrollo, donde la información, recursos y la especialización técnica es a menudo escasa. Actualmente, la mayoría de las agencias regulatorias en el mundo recomiendan el uso de los enfoques...
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Este trabajo caracteriza cuantitativamente el transporte de carga en Santiago (a partir de Citra [1995]) y evalúa las regulaciones vigentes. La mayoría son restricciones cuantitativas al uso de las vías y son percibidas como erráticas e inciertas por los agentes. Estas restricciones no sólo...
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Este artículo describe los principales componentes de la reforma del sistema escolar chileno, así como sus antecedentes fundamentales, y evalúa los principales desafíos pendientes. La primera parte describe los principales componentes de los programas de mejoramiento del sistema escolar y...
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