6 articles in this issue
Herman Bennett, Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel, Claudio Soto
This paper presents new sector saving series for Chile. The annual series for 1960-1997 are disaggregated by six sectors: external sector, general government, public enterprises, central banks, private firms, and households. Household saving is disaggrega... see more
Javier Nuñez
This paper analyses incentives for self-regulation of quality from a principal-agent perspective, in a context of repeated interaction between a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) and consumers who can not observe SRO vigilance choice or fraud perfectly. ... see more
Marcelo Tokman
A formal model of the Chilean dual health system is presented, which, for appropriate parameters, replicates the observed age segmentation of the population between the private insurance market and the public health insurance. The model is used to compare... see more
Rómulo Chumacero
This paper presents compelling evidence against the null hypothesis of a unitroot in series such IMACEC, consumption or GDP for the Chilean economy.This evidence builds on results derived by Chumacero (2000) that show thatwhen the scale variable is differ... see more
Juan Pablo Montero, Luis Cifuentes, Felipe Soto
International efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions by 2008-2012 can have implications on Chile’s economy. Although less developed countries are not asked to limit their emissions yet, they have the possibility to participate with voluntary emission re... see more
Francisco Rosende
This paper provides a wide-ranging overview of recent research in economicgrowth theory that emphasizes the importance of the response of economicgrowth process to changes in global productivity (GP). The research agendafor the next years should be orient... see more