Estudios de Economía  

Javier Nuñez, Roberto Gutierrez

This paper studies class discrimination and meritocracy in the Chilean labor market. Employing a dataset rich in productivity and class measures, we find that upper-class professionals earn approximately 50 per cent more than those raised in lower socioec... see more

Claudio Bravo-Ortega, Daniel Lederman

This paper makes three contributions to the literature on agricultural productivity.First, we provide estimates of growth in agriculture’s total factor productivity(TFP) for a panel of countries using a translog-production function. Incontrast to most of ... see more

Jorge Rivera

This paper is on general equilibrium theory, in finite dimensional spaces, where is considered explicitly the existence of exogenous parameters that may affect productivity of firms. Those parameters could be associated with external restriction or possib... see more

Augusto Castillo

This paper analyzes the impact of security offering announcements on stock prices for a sample of 172 issues of securities in the Chilean financial market, during the 1993-2002 period. We found that the authorization of bond issues given by the SVS (Super... see more

José Belso

El fenómeno emprendedor se ha convertido a lo largo de los últimos años enobjeto frecuente de actuación por parte de los responsables en materia de políticaeconómica y de estudio por parte de la ciencia. El propósito de nuestro estudioes analizar cómo es ... see more