Red Investigadores de Economia: Recent submissions
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Interdependent Capital Structure Choices and the Macroeconomy
This study shows that capital structure choices of US corporations are interdependent across time. We follow a two-step estimation approach. First, using a large cross-section of firms we estimate year-by-year average ...Documentos de Trabajo.
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Impacto de la migración sobre el empleo y la distribución salarial en Colombia
En este documento se presenta evidencia empírica para entender los impactos de la migración en el mercado de trabajo en Colombia, a través de la estimación de un modelo probabilístico tipo Probit para el empleo y una ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-03-31.
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Estimating the Value at Risk of a bank’s portfolio in sovereign bonds using a DCC-Copula model
Rises in sovereign risk adversely affect banks reducing their profits and increasing their funding costs. Impacts are specially strong on banks holding important positions of government debt in the investment portfolios. ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-02-25
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Pensando la historia económica de Colombia. Tendencias en la difusión y la divulgación
Esta obra presenta un balance de las tendencias de difusión y divulgación en historia económica de Colombia producidas entre 1971 y 2016, a partir de 115 títulos considerados como “obras generales en historia económica”, ...Libro. 2019. -
Explaining the Rural-Urban Student Performance Gap for Different Distribution Quantiles in Colombia
This paper studies the determinants of student performance in the PISA 2018 tests in Colombia focusing on the rural-urban gap. Using quantile regression, a student-level education production function at different points ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-02-15
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Tributación en Colombia: Una aproximación teórica y empírica de la Curva de Laffer
El documento presenta una estimación de la Curva de Laffer para la economía colombiana mediante la realización de un análisis de estática comparativa y un análisis de tipo econométrico. Respecto al primer análisis, partiendo ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2021-01-14
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Police Repression and Protest Behavior: Evidence from Student Protests in Chile
Police repression is common in street protests but evidence about its impact is limited. We study the protest behavior of people linked to a student killed by a stray bullet coming from a policeman during a large protest. ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-12-30
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Measuring the contribution of the bioeconomy: the case of Colombia and Antioquia
The bioeconomy has gained attention in policy and academia scenarios as well as the need for strategies to foster the transition toward a more sustainable economic model. This paper provides evidence of the contribution ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-12-29.
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Informalidad, ciclos económicos y política fiscal: una exploración de los nexos
Este trabajo tiene como objetivos ofrecer una visión panorámica acerca de la economía informal, sus determinantes y principales características en el caso colombiano; y, también, explorar las consecuencias de este fenómeno ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-12-05.
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Global effects of US uncertainty: real and financial shocks on real and financial markets
We estimate the effects of financial, macroeconomic and policy uncertainty from the United States on the dynamics of credit growth, stock prices, economic activity, bond yields and inflation in five of the main receptors ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-10-30
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Unpaid work and gender gap patterns in Colombia
Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-10-21.
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Does free information provision crowd out costly information acquisition? It’s a matter of timing
Conventional wisdom suggests that promising an agent free information would crowd out costly information acquisition. We theoretically demonstrate that this intuition only holds as a knife-edge case where priors are ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-10-09
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Contraception, Intra-household Behaviour and Epidemic: Evidence from the Zika crisis in Colombia
We exploit the Zika outbreak in Colombia in 2015 to explore how a negative shock that puts at high risk the newborn's health affects female behaviours associated with fertility, according to their marital status. The ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-10-01
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Lindahl vs. Lindahl: Optimal siting and sizing of a noxious facility
Providing a noxious facility poses two problems previously unexplored together: where to locate it and how large it should be. We propose a mechanism combining some market-like properties with a modified second-price ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-09-22
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The Peace Baby Boom: Evidence from Colombia's peace agreement with the FARC
Violent environments are known to affect household fertility choices, demand for health services and health outcomes of newborns. Using administrative data with a difference-in-differences (2011-2018 period), we study how ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-09-21.
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Climate change: policies to manage its macroeconomic and financial effects
It is increasingly recognized that climate change generates major macroeconomic and financial risks. There are physical risks associated to the disasters generated by hydrometeorological events and to gradual but persistent ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-09-17.
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Changes in mobility and socioeconomic conditions in Bogotá city during the COVID-19 outbreak
We analyze mobility changes following the implementation of containment measures aimed at mitigating the spread of COVID-19 in Bogotá, Colombia. We characterize the mobility network before and during the pandemic and analyze ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-09-01.
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Justicia de Mano Propia: Un Experimento de Castigos de Terceros
Las continuas fallas en las instituciones formales para la administración de la justicia han promovido el desarrollo de instituciones informales basadas en la generación de castigos en manos privadas. Esta investigación ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-07-29
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Un cuento de David y Goliat: comercio, tecnología y crisis ambiental
La heterogeneidad entre las acciones ambientales de los países es uno de los más grandes desafíos sociales y económicos globales. Este trabajo construye un modelo de comercio internacional de dos países y dos sectores ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-07-29.
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Sectoral Fiscal Multipliers and Budget Inflexibility: The Role of Allocative Inefficiency
This paper studies fiscal multipliers in Colombia, an emerging economy with a high degree of inflexibility of expenditure at the sectoral level. The results show that the multiplier is almost twice as large in sectors in ...Documentos de Trabajo. 2020-07-03
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