6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica: Envíos recientes
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What do non-renewable natural resource rich countries do with their rents?
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper examines three sets of questions related to the use of non-renewable natural resource rents: (1) To what extent countries rich in non-renewable natural resources use such rents to increase present consumption ... -
Workfare and crime: evidence for Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper investigates the effect of introducing a massive workfare program on property crimes. In order to circumvent the endogeneity problem common to joint factors determining crime and demand for workfare we make use ... -
Credit Constraints for Higher Education
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper addresses the importance of credit constraints explaining the gap on college enrollment between students coming from rich and poor families. Measuring the effect of credit constraints on college enrollment is ... -
Flexibility matters: do more rigid loan contracts reduce demand for microfinance?
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)Despite the rapid expansion of microfinance services in the past several decades, the low use of formal credit exhibited by poor households, the high dropout rates experienced by many microfinance institutions, and the ... -
Banking Services Supply and Micro Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)This paper uses a dataset of a survey of Colombian micro firms from 2003 to 2007 in combination with data from publicly available sources about banking services supply at the municipality level, to assess the impact of the ... -
Estructura de financiamiento y restricciones financieras de las empresas en Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)En este estudio evaluamos las restricciones financieras que enfrentan las empresas en Colombia e identificamos los determinantes de su estructura de financiamiento. Utilizando datos a nivel de firma, analizamos la evolución ... -
State formation, tax structures and mineral abundance Chile and Peru, 1850-1930s
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)The paper assesses the impact of natural resource abundance on state formation by looking at how tax structures responded to booming periods in the early ages of the Chilean and Peruvian republic, 1850-1930s. The paper ... -
Efectos dinámicos de los precios de las materias primas en las posiciones fiscales de América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)El último episodio de auge y caída en los precios de las materias primas ha generado preocupación acerca del impacto de precios volátiles en las posiciones fiscales de los países de América Latina. Este trabajo, usando una ... -
Canon minero y decisiones fiscales subnacionales en el Perú
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)Este trabajo estudia el impacto del canon minero en las prácticas fiscales sub-nacionales en Perú. En particular se explorara si el régimen de distribución de fondos asociados a la actividad minera ha promovido o no la ... -
Oil abundance and growth
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)The aim of this paper is to investigate the following questions: Is an abundance of oil, a curse or a blessing? What are the effects of oil abundance on growth and economic development, as seen in the level of income per ... -
Information sharing and access to finance of SMEs: cross country evidence from survey data
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)Using a survey of firms in 61 countries around the world (WBES) and econometric techniques that allow us to deal with observed and unobserved country specific components as well as with partial endogeneity, we explore the ... -
People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)This paper explores testable implications of a simple model of spatial heterogeneity in earnings, a model in which this spatial heterogeneity arises both from differences in the places that people work and differences among ... -
Access to Financing of SMEs in Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)In this paper, we examine SMEs in Argentina in search for a measurement of those who are credit constrained. We also estimate a model for the determinants of credit rejection taking into account those that are self-excluded. ... -
Servicios locales, infraestructura y transporte: dimensión, escala, redes e instituciones de gobernanza
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Este trabajo pretende contribuir a la comprensión de las pautas de producción y de gobernanza de los servicios públicos locales. La cuestión central es que algunos de estos servicios están caracterizados por economías de ... -
Improving the education and health of the poor: decentralization and policy reform in Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper, the policyoriented companion to Faguet and Sánchez (2009), ... -
El impacto del petróleo y la minería en el desarrollo regional y local en Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Este trabajo estudia el impacto de la explotación de hidrocarburos y minerales sobre el desarrollo regional y local reciente en Colombia. Examina si los departamentos y municipios productores de hidrocarburos y carbón, y ... -
On the emergence and significance of local economic development strategies
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)This paper examines to what extent local and regional economic development strategies (LED) are becoming a necessary and viable complement to traditional development strategies in a world that has been radically changed ... -
The impact of financial repression on interest rate spreads in Venezuela
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)This paper empirically examines the effect of financial repression on interest rates spreads in Venezuela. In order to have a measure of financial repression, we built an index that captures the opportunity cost of regulatory ... -
Decentralization and Access to Social Services in Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)A central claim in favor of decentralization is that it will improve access to public services, but few studies examine this question empirically. This paper explores the effects of decentralization to access to health and ... -
Local economic development. Some cities develop more than others: specialization, human capital and institutions
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Why does a certain metropolitan area grow more than another? The answer to this question has evaded much of the considerable body of scholarship on the topic. One problem may be that some of the frameworks that drive ...
