This paper constructs time series data on savings per type of agent for Chile during the period 1960-2012. It is found that the economy's average savings rate increased by 11 percentage points in the period 1985-2012 compared to 1960- 1984, with particularly pronounced growth in corporate...

English Abstract: The purpose of this article is to analyze the lack of clarity in national literature concerning the standard of protection and normative structure of insider trading in the Chilean legal system. After an initial review of the standards of protection established by international...

Spanish Abstract: El artículo analiza de manera crítica la capacidad de las propuestas teóricas, desarrolladas en nuestro país, que intentan reconstruir el injusto penal del uso de información privilegiada. La principal crítica se orienta, por una parte, en denunciar una especie de...

The recent evolution of productivity has been a puzzle for economists. After a period marked by historic growth (1987-1997), aggregate productivity stagnated (1998-2012). The analysis in this paper focuses on productivity in nine major sectors of the economy to establish tentative hypotheses to...

This paper aims to analyse the economy-wide implications of a carbon tax applied on the Chilean electricity generation sector. In order to analyse the macroeconomic impacts, both an energy sectorial model and a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model have been used. During the year 2014 a...