This paper measures the change in US unemployment and participation rates by gender due to the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses a triple difference estimation, DiDiD, and time series generated synthetic controls to compare these rates. The results suggest, thought not strongly, that...

Este documento hace un recuento de la estadística fiscal colombiana. Sostiene que sería más realista presentar el déficit calculado con la amortización sobre la línea en lugar del tradicional calculado con la amortización bajo la línea; que el concepto del superávit primario carece de...

This article explores the use of information-theoretic explanatory variables in stock price forecasting regressions. Stock price changes, as the dependent variable, is run against traditional explanatory variables such as lags of price changes and lags of the squares of the price changes. The...

This document explores various information theoretic concepts initially developed in physics and engineering and used today in many other fields. Information is defined as a quantity inversely proportional to the probability that an event happens and entropy is defined as the expected value of...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo compara el comportamiento de la inflación para el hogar promedio y diversos tipos de hogares de adultos mayores en Colombia. Los resultados indican que, en promedio, los adultos mayores gastan una mayor proporción de su ingreso en vivienda y salud y una menor...

A model is presented to illustrate the role of labor mobility in income distribution. Worker preference for different occupations and wage comparisons are combined to determine the allocation of labor between sectors and to trace the behavior of the Gini coefficient as mobility increases. The...