During the last decade changes have taken place in the structure of the expenditure of the Uruguayan households. In particular, the expenditure in health care raised and diversified. Using data from income and expenditure survey (Encuesta de Gastos e Ingresos 1994-95, Instituto Nacional de...

In this paper we are concerned with the estimation of income elasticities of environmental amenities. The novelty is the application of econometric methods that take into account the problem of measurement errors when estimating these elasticities, which is common in microeconomic data and is...

Este artículo presenta un caso de articulación público - privada en la provisión de infraestructura de carreteras en Uruguay. Se trata de una concesión a una compañía de propiedad pública, con un contrato denominado valor presente del gasto". Este esquema aparece como una solución...