The potentially anticompetitive nature of some practices driven by professional organizations has been approached in economic literature and appears as an important issue in the antitrust organism’s agenda. However, empirical economics lacks of a self-regulated professionals analysis. This...

El estado del ciclo económico ha tenido incidencia sobre la duración del desempleo en la Argentina. En este trabajo se ofrecen distintas alternativas para cuantificar este efecto. Se estima un modelo para la probabilidad de experimentar un tránsito de la desocupación al empleo, a partir de...

This paper analyzes conceptual issues dealing with the measurement of “sector tax burden”, specifically the methodological treatment of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and Tax on Exports, with particular reference to the Agricultural Sector. First, notions of tax impact (statutory or legal...

Commodity prices have been growing fast in the last few years and this has caused countless economic changes worldwide. This paper looks for a place in this topic offering a smooth transition vector autoregressive model whose motivation is rooted in the heterogeneous agent based models...

This paper assesses the impact of the Liquidity Program for Growth Sustainability (LPGS) on Latin America and the Caribbean, instrumented by the IDB to confront the regional spillovers of the subprime crisis. This emergency liquidity line was set up to boost productive loans of commercial banks,...

Este trabajo discute algunos desarrollos teóricos recientes sobre la determinación de la política macroeconómica óptima en situaciones en las que existen complementariedades estratégicas entre los agentes de la economía. Se presentan las ideas utilizando como base un modelo simple que...

This paper reviews the familiar “dilemma of Condorcet”, dealing with the voting by simple majority problem, studied by Duncan Black and Kenneth Arrow, to highlight the importance of a discretionary manipulation of the political agenda in a representative democracy. The dilemma is used to...