This paper analyzes the relationship between rural poverty and forest land management in the context of charcoal production under slash and burn. An optimal control model determines how a representative household makes decisions on the allocation of forest areas to work and use them to affect...

Innovation in Latin America is a challenge for achieving development. Several Latin American countries and businesses are attempting to increase innov ation and entrepreneurship but they face substantial challenges and difficulties. Institutional, governmental and business policies and practices...

In 1979, the "Ley de Aviaciýn Comercial" (Commercial Aviation Act) was passed in Chile. Its main goal was to improve the air transport by means of "Open Sky Policies", competence (freedom of prices) and a progressive lesser intervention of the official authority. Since then an international air...

The basic research question behind this work is how the economic value of an environmental good differs considering surrounding beneficiaries (those who live near the good in question) and not surrounding beneficiaries (who inhabit the country where the good is, living in distant communities and...

We study and compare the impact of two teachers’ quality instruments, teachers’ evaluation tests (TET) and teachers’ value added (TVA), on a middle-run outcome defined by tertiary education attendance in a developing country context. For this purpose, we follow several cohorts of students...

We consider the pricing of a uniformly mixed pollutant when enforcement is costly with a model of optimal, possibly firm-specific, emissions taxes and their enforcement. We argue that optimality requires an enforcement strategy that induces full compliance by every firm. This holds whether or...

We study and compare the impact of two teachers’ quality instruments, teachers’ evaluation tests (TET) and teachers’ value added (TVA), on a middle-run outcome defined by tertiary education attendance. For this purpose, we follow several cohorts of students and teachers using Chilean...