The current research has the aim to identify and evaluate the impacts of external shocks related to the new economic context of world-wide deceleration in the Bolivian economy. It is assumed for this scenario that Bolivia would face a reduction in the export prices, a reduction in the level of...

The aim of this paper seeks to introduce the basis of the energy economics models defined as a market equilibrium problems-mixed complementarily problem (MCP). This technique allows the integration of bottom-up programming models of the energy system into top-down general computable equilibrium...

The study of the impact of public investment on poverty is currently of particular importance due to, among other factors, the commitments that several countries have acquired in the framework of the Millennium Development Goals and the current political situation which gives a more prominent...

The present document analyzes the energy substitution elasticities in the short and long term in Bolivia. The inputs accounted are electricity, hydrocarbons and biomass. In order to measure and identify the direction of the elasticities we use a Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function,...