This draft discusses the main instruments to mitigate environmental externalities, considering both the traditional goals of efficiency and equity and restrictions on information and technical and political feasibility. It is analyzed the program "Pico y Placa" in Medellín, a restricting...

En Medellín es urgente insistir en soluciones inteligentes, con más alternativas de transporte masivo. Las actuales, que son lentas como el tranvía, y equivocadas como el metroplús, resultan dañinas para el ambiente.

el alto crecimiento logrado por la economía colombiana en los últimos años (5,9% en 2011), que la ubica entre las economías con mayor crecimiento del planeta, está sustentado principalmente en la expansión de las actividades mineras, que en su mayoría van en detrimento de los recursos...

This paper analyses how the institutional processes, the school management as well as the contexts in which the school and the students are circumscribed, could impact the performance in the high-school graduation-year test (ICFES). A survey was applied with the purpose of know the actions and...

The purpose of this article is to evidence the current state of non-interconnected zones (ZNI) in Colombia, in terms of the offer of energy, regulation and institutional structure, in order to determine the incentives that seek to implement efficient solutions for these zones. For this purpose,...

We apply a simple version of the Baumol Tobin model of Money Demand to determine the costs incurred by agents due to the existence of a proportional tax on the value of banking transactions in Colombia, and the incentives to use less and less the legal financial system.

This paper aims to introduce some market mechanisms that can improve reliability in the market for electricity generation in Colombia, these are: 1) to provide additional information to agents in a market which by nature is random and 2) reliability insurances, recognizing that the demands are...

We analyze the new selection of teachers in basic and media education in Antioquia as an adverse selection problem. We have known the non-teaching professionals are going relatively well in the written tests, but lose that advantage in the analysis of their curriculum vitae (they usually do not...

This paper analyzes institucional and incentives problems related to educational labor in the secondary education in Medellín (Colombia). A summary of the financial, regulatory and control structures in this sector is carried out. Moreover, we indentify and analyze the system of incentives that...