8 articles in this issue
Ricardo Bebczuk
The goal of this paper is to conduct an empirical investigation on the macroeconomic determinants of research and development (R&D) expenditures and to assess the role of government in the light of recent developments brought about by the endogenous growt... see more
Nicolás Garrido, Adriana Marina
The aim of this note is to analyze some characteristics about the income mobility problem present in Argentina during the last decade of the last century. In order to reach this goal we propose the concept of archetypes to identify an average economic age... see more
Miguel Angel Quiroga
The purpose of this work is to empirically study the importance of agglomeration economies in the selection of geographical zones in which foreign investors are willing to develop their investment projects in Chile. For this purpose a discrete choice mode... see more
Finn Kydland, Carlos Zarazaga
The paper examines Argentina’s economic expansion in the 1990s through the lens of a very parsimonious neoclassical growth model. The main finding is that investment remained considerably weaker than what the model would have predicted. The resulting exce... see more
Juan Carlos Odar
According to Growth Theory, different economies converge to the same steadystate if saving rates, depreciation and population growth are controlled. Controlling for other variables, convergence will be conditional and not absolute. If the considered econo... see more
Ricard Gil, Casey B. Mulligan
Social spending programs are important political issues, and it would be interesting to know how political systems affect the amount spent by the public sector. Much of the cross-country data is difficult to interpret, because richer countries simultaneou... see more
David Blackburn
In this paper, we examine the impacts of casual copying in the market for goods that have strong network externalities and/or are strong complements with goods in another market. By allowing casual copying to occur, the monopolist triggers two effects. Th... see more
Ana María Cerro, José Pineda
This paper measures and explains to what extent Latin American countries’ growth cycles experienced co-movement in the last forty years, using different methodologies. We find that short lasting cycles showed a great dispersion among cyclical correlation,... see more