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...

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...

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...

Over the last five decades a growing number of governments in developed and developing countries have implemented targeting policies to increase the R&D to GDP ratio. However, until now there have been few attempts either to evaluate the effectiveness of these policy efforts or to identify the...

Using retained profits, instead of realized capital gains, by simply adding them to the shareholders’ other sources of income is shown to be in general incorrect. We provide a methodology to include undistributed profits as part of the income of the top echelons of the distribution.

The Chilean economy is usually highly praised as a successful one since the imposition of neoliberal reforms, under the dictatorship of general Pinochet in 1973. The fact is that the four decades that have elapsed include sub-periods with quite different policy approaches and notably diverse...