La familia popular tal como aparece en la literatura económica dieciochesca no ha sido hasta ahora el objeto de un estudio detenido. En la ponencia que sigue, utilizamos varios tratados escritos entre 1774 y 1795, dos decenios claves en el pensamiento económico de la Ilustración. Se sitúan...

This paper analyzes jointly optimal fiscal and monetary policies in a small open economy with capital and sticky prices. We allow for trade in consumption goods under perfect international risk sharing. We consider balanced-budget fiscal policies where authorities use distortionary taxes on...

This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...

In a real option model, we show that the standard analysis of vertical relationships transposes directly to investment timing. Thus, when a firm undertaking a project requires an outside supplier (e.g., an equipment manufacturer) to provide it with a discrete input to serve a growing but...

Environnement pédagogique innovant et résolument collaboratif, ALICE est une plateforme numérique de travail opensource d'aide à l'apprentissage et actuellement en cours d'expérimentation. Cet article décrit les raisons qui nous ont conduit à développer cet outil et présente ses...

A severe macroeconomic crisis resets economic sectors. This is so when the GDP growth rates move between great falls and important recoveries, and when relative prices vary importantly. The insurance sector in Argentina offers an interesting laboratory to explore with Luenberger Productivity...

The objective of this paper is to present advances in productivity measures through index numbers and indicators, as well as to provide an example centered in the Argentinean insurance sector in recent years. The methodologies to estimate productivity changes by means of Malmquist Indexes and...

El propósito de este trabajo es analizar el fenómeno emergente de la transferencia de la gobernabilidad del Estado - nación a la gobernabilidad económica global corporativa. Después de determinar el impacto de los procesos de globalización económica conducidos por una economía global...

The paper deals with the diffusion of GHG mitigation technologies in developing countries. We develop a model where an abatement technology is progressively adopted by firms and we use it to compare the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) with a standard Cap and Trade scheme (C&T). In the presence...

Este artículo confirma que a lo largo del periodo 1990-2005 no existe evidencia de convergencia de los niveles de renta per cápita entre los países del Subsistema de Integración Económica Centroamericana. Se han realizado diversos contrastes de convergencia beta, sigma y gamma, y en ninguno...