Este documento examina la complementariedad entre inversiones en I+D y TICs. Teóricamente, se modifica el modelo de Jones y Williams (1997). Empíricamente, se emplea un panel dinámico utilizando la metodología propuesta por Bover y Bond (1995) y Blundell y Bond (1998) denominada System GMM,...

La investigación en Chile acerca del efecto de las actividades no lectivas sobre el desarrollo de habilidades cognitivas y no cognitivas es muy escaso, a pesar de la creciente evidencia internacional de su relevancia, incluso, en algunos casos, superando la efectividad de programas...

This article measures the impact of the agency responsible for enforcing competition law, in the outcome of antitrust trials in Chile. Using statistics on lawsuits since the inception of the new Competition Tribunal in 2004, we find that the involvement of the public agency increases the...

Since 1975 Chilean exports have boomed growing at a 6% average rate per year in real terms. In this paper we use manufacturing Chilean data at the plant level for years 1990 to 2007 to investigate the relationship between exports, plant dynamics and productivity. Our findings are consistent with...

We consider a decision maker that holds multiple preferences simultaneously, each with different strengths described by a probability distribution. Faced with a subset of available alternatives, the preferences held by the individual can be in conflict. Choice results from an aggregation of...

We examine evidence from a 2006 to 2009 data panel to explore how Chilean households were affected by the negative income shock observed during the recent financial crisis. Our results show that there is a negative and significant relationship between income shocks and changes in consumption...

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative as firms in the manufacturing industry. In the basic model, we also find that...