10 articles in this issue
Robert Stein
Contemporary research on service delivery has been preoccupied with the issue of privatization. Specifically, the concern has been with whether a governmental or non governmental entity is more effective and efficient in delivering publicly provided goods... see more
Héctor Gutiérrez
To avoid the development of a congestion problem in roads and streets, the supply of transport infrastructure should keep pace with its demand. However, this is not an easy task, because the required funds tend to grow faster than tax collection does, whi... see more
Raúl O´Ryan, Alfredo Del Valle
This paper presents the bases for the design of a systemic management system for air quality in Santiago. The system proposed was developed through a novel participative methodology called Innovative Development, that required the participation of all the... see more
Yael Baytelman, Ricardo Paredes
Over the last fifteen years, urban transport congestion in Santiago, Chile has concerned authorities, academicians and the public in general. Unlike other congested cities, the case of Santiago is a very special one, since it makes it possible to compare ... see more
Pablo Serra
Urban highways are a scarce resource. For this reason, the auction of urban highway franchises to the private sector should take into account the congestion which affects them. In this paper a form of auction is proposed which consists of fixing maximum t... see more
Pedro Melo
Cities are the outcome of processes of economic maximization where not all requirements of perfect competition are given (there are externalities, transaction and information costs, and market power), and where the past does have a bearing. “Real” prices ... see more
Christine Whitehead
The paper examines the attributes of housing that makes is difficult to provide it effectively in freely operating markets as well as the attributes which make administrative allocation problematic. It then goes on to discuss why the policy emphasis in ma... see more
Sergio Jara-Díaz
The role of pricing a short run tool to induce efficiency in the transport system of Santiago is discussed. The spatial distribution of demand shows that both income and car ownership is discussed. The spatial distribution of demand shows that both income... see more
Gabriel Aghon, Leonardo Letelier
This paper is intended to analyze, in a comparative perspective, the financing mechanisms of urban local governments in two groups of countries. The first group refers to a sample of OECD countries. They are rather decentralized, and have institutional fe... see more
Eugenio Figueroa, Luis Firinguetti, Jorge Rogat
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