This paper develops and tests a model of growth in that emphasizes the introduction of new export as the main source of growth in countries that are far within the world technological frontier and that depend for growth on adapting existing products to their economic environment. It seeks to...

This article investigates how antitrust agencies should structure the disclosing of information about effciency gains from interested parties (merging .rms, and competitors) in merger control. We analyze the particular case of a horizontal merger withdanger of foreclosure, where welfare can...

The objective of this study is to characterize the fertility trends in Chile in recent decades, and identify the main factors underlying them. This study is based on an in-depth analysis of the available data: the population censuses of 1992 and 2002, socioeconomic household surveys, and data...

We analyze the work-school tradeoff among Bolivia’s children. We compare a definition of work that includes only market activities and one that also considers domestic chores. Our empirical specification considers the joint determination of these decisions. We find that a tradeoff exists and...

Este trabajo tiene dos grandes objetivos. Primero, determinar qué tipos de trabajo pagan mejor, cuales menos, dentro de las dos carreras de economía y negocios, es decir, ingeniería comercial y contador auditor; y segundo, cuál es la importancia relativa en los salarios de ambas carreras, de...

Utilizando datos de panel para el periodo 1996-2001 y datos de corte transversal para los años 1990 y 2003, este artículo evalúa si el crecimiento en Chile ha sido “pro pobre”. Se emplean dos estrategias. Primero se estima la “Curva de Incidencia del Crecimiento” y luego se estima...

The discovery of new export opportunities has been an important trait of economic growth and development in Chile since the mid-1970s (Agosin, 1999; Meller, 1994; and Meller and Sáez, 1995). An additional aspect that makes Chile an interesting case study is that these opportunities have arisen almost...

El artículo realiza una revisión de la literatura teórica sobre la forma en que los programas de amnistía o delación compensada afectan la estabilidad de los carteles y permiten su detección y disuasión. Sobre la base de las principales contribuciones, se presenta un modelo unificado que...

We study welfare and core equivalence for a competitive equilibrium defined on an economy where all commodities are indivisible at the individual level, but perfectly divisible at the aggregate level. In our model is assumed that thereexists a continuum parameter, which can be interpreted as...

En este trabajo se estima en forma conjunta el markup y la distribución de la renta a cada uno de los factores productivos en la industria manufacturera chilena durante los noventa. Mediante el uso de Método de Momentos Generalizado se encuentra que la mano de obra se lleva un 21% de las...