Este estudio continúa la línea de investigación acerca de los determinantes de las actividades de Investigación y Desarrollo y su impacto sobre la innovación tecnológica y la productividad de las plantas manufactureras en Chile (Benavente y Crespi, 1996y Benavente 2002). Los resultados...

The objective of this study is to shed light on the identification of the internal and external factors that affect the attitudes towards innovation of companies located in regions situated on the periphery of economic centres. The main research questions are as follows: (1) What are the...

This note presents an empirical analysis of optimal taxation in Chile, adopting Roemer’s equality of opportunities as the evaluation criterion. The equality of opportunities optimal tax rules seek to equalize income differentials arising from factors beyond the control of the individual....