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Development accounting depends on two simplifying assumptions, that economies can be represented by a common aggregate production function and that aggregate factors of production are paid their social marginal products. An aggregate production function can explain income across countries, but...
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This study investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment, institutional quality, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. The research compares the capacity and appetite for business creation among high-income, low-income and emerging countries. The results...
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We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...
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Does informed trading affect emerging stock markets? Market microstructure literature establishes that information asymmetry reduces liquidity and moves prices in the direction of the trade. We test for this theoretical implication by running the dynamic PIN model of Easley, Engle, O’Hara y Wu...
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Several Nobel laureates economists have called for redistributive policies. This paper shows that there is a strong case for redistributive policies because the global increase of income inequality and wealth concentration was an important driver for the financial and Eurozone crisis. The high...
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Aunque el impacto de la tasa de interés sobre la inversión en activos productivos es una de las razones esenciales de la política monetaria, son escasos los resultados de estudios en Colombia que cuantifican ese impacto. Desde el clásico artículo de Ocampo, Londoño y Villar (1988), en el...
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El propósito de este artículo es analizar qué factores determinan la estructura de capital de los establecimientos de crédito en Colombia. Con este fin se hace una revisión de la literatura existente en torno al tema y, asumiendo que se cumple la hipótesis propuesta en algunas teorías de...
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Los mercados de contratos futuros tienen como fortaleza la eliminación del riesgo de contraparte, para esto es importante el nivel de garantías que las cámaras de riesgo exigen a los participantes del mercado -- Estas garantías deben cubrir las variaciones extremas del precio del producto,...
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In this paper we analyze the effect of four possible alternatives regarding the prior distributions in a linear model with autoregressive errors to predict piped water consumption: Normal-Gamma, Normal-Scaled Beta two, Studentized-Gamma and Student's t-Scaled Beta two. We show the effects of...
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La deserción es entendida como la interrupción o desvinculación del proceso académico-institucional que lleva a cabo el estudiante. Identificar los factores asociados a este fenómeno de la deserción es de gran interés para las Instituciones de Educación Superior –IES–, debido a la...
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