Paper: Macro Implications of Inequality-driven Political Polarization Abstract: This paper builds a model of heterogenous agents, incomplete markets and idiosyncratic shocks extended with a political mechanism that...
Paper: Labor Demand in Relational Contracts Abstract: We study relational contracts when a firm not only cannot commit to motivating workforce effort, but also cannot commit...
Paper: Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Firm Wage Premia Abstract: This paper leverages a large minimum wage reform in Uruguay to study the effects of...
Paper: “Strategic or Scarred? Disparities in College Enrollment and Dropout Response to Macroeconomic Conditions” Abstract: Recessions create enduring effects, or scars, on young individuals’ careers. I investigate...
Paper: Religious Mayors, Teenage Pregnancy, and Sexual Education in Schools Abstract: I investigate the impact of local Pentecostal politicians on teenage pregnancy rates in Brazil. Using a...
El Instituto de Economía UC será sede de la segunda jornada de la Chile Conference on Public Finance and Sovereign Markets, organizada por el profesor...
Paper: We are not in Gaussian World anymore: Implications for the composition of official foreign assets Abstract: In the aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian crises, many emerging...
Paper: The impacts of restrictions to individual rights on Indigenous lands Abstract: Many countries in the Americas impose restrictions on indigenous land transactions to preserve indigenous...
Elías Albagli —Gerente de la División de Política Monetaria del Banco Central— presentará el nuevo Informe de Política Monetaria (IPoM) en la Facultad de Economía...
El Instituto de Economía UC, junto con la Universidad de Oxford, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) y la Universidad del Desarrollo, te invitan al...
El Instituto de Economía UC tiene el agrado de invitarle al conversatorio “El futuro de Chile: Visiones para reactivar el crecimiento”, donde tres destacados economistas...