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En este artículo se describe cómo se determina la tasa de desempleo de la economía de Paraguay en el periodo 1985-2007. En el modelo teórico se supone la existencia de rigideces salariales que generan desempleo de tipo involuntario, los salarios son el resultado de un proceso de negociación...
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La unificación monetaria en la Unión Europea (UE) comenzó en enero de 1999. A partir de esa fecha once países fijaron irrevocablemente el tipo de cambio de sus monedas con respecto a una unidad de cuenta denominada euro, y el Banco Central Europeo asumió el control de las ofertas monetarias...
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The literature on the evolution of impatience, focusing on one-person decision problems, finds that evolutionary forces favor the more patient individuals. This paper shows that in the context of a game, this is not necessarily the case. In particular, it offers a twopopulation example where...
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In an effort to reduce air pollution and congestion, Latin American cities have experimented with different policies to persuade drivers to give up their cars in favor of public transport. Two notable examples are the driving restriction program introduced in Mexico-City in November of 1989...
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The issues of air pollution and traffic congestion in Latin America have been growing increasingly important since the end of the 20th century. The latter may help explain why several cities around the continent have tried different combination of public policies with vary-ing degrees of...
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Este artículo hará un breve recuento histórico del tema de la protección a la libre competencia a nivel internacional y de la lógica de la acción pública para asegurar la libre competencia, para luego centrarse en la experiencia histórica de Chile, que en estricto rigor data en el mejor...
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President Carlos Ibáñez del Campo came into power in 1952 to restore price stability and to end corruption. Soon, however, inflation was running at about 80 per cent per year and government invited Klein-Saks, the prestigious U.S. based consulting firm, to design and implement an...
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Hacia fines del 2012 debe entrar en vigencia una nueva ley de pesca en reemplazo de la actual Ley No. 19.713. Varios analistas han argumentado que la nueva ley se debe hacer cargo, entre otras cosas, de la baja competencia en el sector y de la falta de entrada de nuevos actores. En este trabajo...
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Within the context of the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH), the predictions for consumption depend crucially upon the process for income. In this paper, we consider an unobserved components model that allows for both asymmetric transitory movements and correlation between permanent and...
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This paper shows that oil price changes, measured as short-term futures returns, are a strong predictor of excess stock returns at short horizons. Ours is a leading variable for the business cycle and exhibits low persistence which avoids the ctitious long-horizon predictability associated to...
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