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Elementos de la regulación de la actividad privada en educación (Regulatory elements of private activity in educations)

El artículo describe teóricamente los principales determinantes de la oferta y demanda de educación privada y los mecanismos por los cuales la política pública incide en este ámbito. Posteriormente resume los resultados de estudios de casos desarrollados para Argentina, Brasil, Colombia y Guatemala, enfatizando los desarrollos recientes de la política pública que afectan la actividad

Transmisión y la “ley corta” I: una nota sobre riesgo y la tasa de descuento (Transmission Prices and the “Express” Law on electricity generation: a note on risk and the discount rate)

Esta nota estudia los determinantes de la tasa de descuento apropiada para fijar peajes de transmisión. Para ello se desarrolla un modelo simple que permite descomponerla en una suma de la tasa libre de riesgo y el premio por riesgo.Los principios generales son dos: (a) la tasa de descuento debiera ser variable y anclarse en

Comparing the Net Benefits of Incentice Based and Command and Control Regulations in a Developing Context: the Case of Santiago, Chile

There are numerous studies that establish the magnitude of the static efficiency gains made possible through the use of a cost effective ambient permit system (APS) compared to command and control (CAC) or other suboptimal instruments such as an emission permit system (EPS). However the cost effectiveness of APS rests both on the efficiency gains

Firm Sponsored General Training in a Frictionless Labor Market

In this paper I show that, contrary to Becker`s (1962) Human Capital theory and consistent with the evidence, in a frictionless labor market model firms pay for general training, while the worker recives the full return on general training, and the worker and the firm share the returns on specific investments to underinvesttment in spacific

Factors that Determine the Efficiency Ranking of Second-Best Instruments for Environmental Regulation

Cost-effective policies allow minimizing the compliance costs associated to reaching a desired environmental quality target. However cost reductions associated to the use of these policies are not always significant. In this paper a conceptual model is developed to analyze explicitly the interaction among the factors that determine the compliance costs under two market based policies

Equity and Educational Performance

In this paper, we review the main issues under discussion in the field of economics of education, with a special focus on Latin America. We seek to organize the debate about educational policies by showing how these policies respond to different models based on different assumptions and hypotheses about how the educational system functions. Methodological

Bank Lending and Relationship Banking: Evidence from Chilean Firms

In this paper we empirically study bank-client relationships using a sample of manufacturing Chilean firms. We examine whether concentration and the duration of bank-firm relationships affect the terms of bank financing, evaluating both the volume of bank lending and bank loan costs. Our results indicate that lower concentration, measured by the number of banks a

How Sensitive is Volatility to Exchange Rate Regimes?

It is usually conjectured that the nominal exchange rate should be more volatileunder a free float than under a dirty float regime. This paper examines this issue for theChilean economy. Specifically, in September 1999 the Central Bank of Chile eliminated the floating band for the nominal exchange rate, which operated since 1984, and established a

Could Higher Taxes Increase the Long-Run Demand for Capital?: Theory and Evidences for Chile

Is a tax increase always detrimental for capital formation? This paper estimates a long-run demand for capital in Chile, and studies the responsiveness of firms’ desired capital stock to variations in tax rates. We combine the neoclassical model with a cointegration argument to obtain a long-run demand for capital that is valid for a general

Why Do We Need Antidumping Rules?

We show that the inclusion of antidumping (AD) and countervailing subsidy (CVD) regulations can increase the range of feasible preferential trade agreements (PTA), given that governments are sensitive to pressure groups defending import competing industries. AD and CVD regulations serve as an «escape valve» for pressure groups affected by the PTA in some states of

Método de selección y resultados académicos: Escuela de Ingeniería, Universidad de Chile (Selection Method and Academic Results: Engineering School, University of Chile)

Estudiamos la capacidad predictiva del rendimiento académico de las distintas componentes del sistema de selección a las universidades para los alumnos de la Escuela de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Chile. Nuestros resultados indican que las notas de educación media y las pruebas específicas de física y matemáticas tienen una capacidad predictiva importante y estable,

Análisis Económico-Descriptivo de las Regiones Chilenas (Economic-descriptive analysis of the regions of Chile)

Este trabajo proporciona un análisis económico-descriptivo de las regiones de Chile, en términos de Producto Interno Bruto Regionalizado, exportaciones y población, para el período 1985-1999.Los principales resultados observados son los siguientes:a. Hay un notorio diferencial en el nivel del PIB per cápita de las regiones. El PIB per cápita de la II Región -la de