Resumen En este documento se evalúa y analiza la relación entre las regalías directas y las coberturas mínimas alcanzadas por los municipios productores de petróleo para el periodo 2007-2008; mediante la metodología del análisis envolvente de datos. Esta metodología ha sido implementada en...

We estimate a non-parametrical Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and find strong evidence rejecting the classical linear CAPM. Furthermore, we find inconsistent linear betas for a series of stocks in the Colombian stock exchange (BVC), supporting the hypothesis of a better and consistent...

Financial basics and intuition stresses the importance of investment horizon for risk management and asset allocation. However, the beta parameter of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is invariant to the holding period. Such contradiction is due to the assumption of long-term independence...

ResumenEste trabajo emplea el filtro de Hodrick y Prescott (HP), el filtro Paso de Banda (PB) y una descomposición teórica (DT), para mostrar cómo las regularidades cíclicas caracterizadas por el modelo de crecimiento exógeno de King, Plosser y Rebelo (1988) dependen de la técnica de...

Resumen: En este artículo se estiman las curvas de Engel para diferentes rubros de gasto en salud. Para tal fin, se emplean modelos semiparamétricos que utilizan la información de la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida de 1997. Adicionalmente, se corrigieron los problemas de endogeneidad detectados...

Para determinar la dependencia estructural entre los mercados bursátiles colombiano y estadounidense, se usaron las pérdidas de los índices Col20, Dow Jones y Standard & Poors 500 como variables. La metodología desarrollada siguió los lineamientos de los modelos de dinámica multivariados,...

We model the interaction between the marriage market and the intrahousehold allocation of resources. We do this within a setting that accounts for both economic gains to marriage (through public consumption) and unobserved non-material match quality, without relying on the transferable utility...

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record levels and there was evidence for a widening...

This paper develops a large-scale algorithm‑based application to improve the match quality in the labor market. We use comprehensive administrative data on employment biographies in Germany to predict job match quality in terms of job stability and wages. The models are estimated with both...

We model the interaction between the marriage market and the intrahousehold allocation of resources. We do this within a setting that accounts for both economic gains to marriage (through public consumption) and unobserved non-material match quality, without relying on the transferable utility...