We propose a merchant-regulatory framework to promote investment in the European natural-gas network infrastructure based on a price cap over two-part tariffs. As suggested by Vogelsang (2001) and Hogan et al., (2010), a profit maximizing network operator (NO) facing this regulatory constraint...

This paper examines the impact that household and village level characteristics have on environmental dependence and participation in resource extraction decisions. Contrary to previous studies that have used case studies or regional samples, I use a nationally representative sample of rural...

In this article we analyze how different characteristics of a social network are associated to different types of resources required by the individuals that constitute the network and their objectives. To attain this goal, we develop and conduct a survey, using random sampling, in a...

In this document we analyze the infrastructure and human resources (hospitals, beds, ORs, doctors and nurses, among others), both in the public and the private sector, to determine the installed capacity in the country to meet the potential demand that will be faced in case of universal...

In this paper we formulate an infinitely repeated Principal-Agent relationship as a Multi-Objective Optimization problem. We numerically approximate the solution of this model using a Multi-Objective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithm, named RankMOEA, for different values of the Agent's...

Ideas about ethnicity, religion, and nationalism among others, which we label “ideology”, seem to affect the preferences of voters, political parties and finally, the equilibrium policy. In this paper we provide a political-economic model that traces the influence of ideology on determining...

Some authors argue that the informal sector is one of the causes of underdevelopment; some others that it is only a symptom. The first group recommends an increase in tax enforcement in order to reduce the sector; the second group recommends undertaking reforms to ignite growth (such as...

Mexico is a highly centralized federation. The states and municipalities are highly dependent on federal transfers and so equally at risk to the country’s fiscal dependence on oil. Although Mexico has become more truly federal since multiparty competition has become vibrant and several states...

The informal sector accounts for a substantial fraction of employed population in Mexico and other Latin American countries. In this paper we study the interaction between the tax and transfers system and the size and composition of informal sector. To do that we build a search model that can be...

A semi-empirical likelihood estimator is proposed for models where agents interact under asymmetric information. The methodology focuses on situations where some variables that were privately observed when choices were made become available to the econometrician afterwards. This variables are...