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Transit infrastructure and informal housing: Assessing an expansion of Medellín’s Metrocable system

Autores:
Andrés García-Suaza
Héctor M. Posada
Transportation policies have a valuable influence on the allocation of resources within cities. Therefore, investigating the impacts of transit interventions is relevant, especially in developing countries where informal housing is […]

Search intensity, search time and prices: evidence from retail diesel markets in France

Autores:
Jeisson Cárdenas
Jesús Otero
Luis Gutiérrez
We study the effect of price variations over time and across space on search intensity and search time by consumers in retail markets for diesel in France. The main contribution […]

Brothers or invaders? How crisis-driven migrants shape voting behavior

Autores:
Juan Vargas
Sandra V. Rozo
We study the electoral effects of the arrival of 1.3 million Venezuelan refugees in Colombia as a consequence of the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis. We exploit the fact that forced migrants […]

Announcement of the first metro line and its impact on housing prices in Bogotá

Autores:
Jeisson Cárdenas
Juan Gallego
María Urrutia
Transport infrastructure investment impacts mobility and may significantly affect the capitalisation of the areas surrounding these infrastructure projects, even before the projects are completed. This paper analyses the impact that […]

Sanitation dynamics: toilet acquisition and its economic and social implications in rural and urban contexts

Autores:
Britta Augsburg
Paul Rodríguez
This paper uses primary micro-data from Indian households residing in rural villages and poor urban neighbourhoods to shed light on household sanitation decision-making. We use a theoretical economic model to […]

Changes in new and old informal urban settlements in Bogota: logic of need and logic of the market: two case studies

Autores:
Maria Elena Botero
Urban policies conceive informal urbanization as a phenomenon to be eliminated or regularized. However, the “informal city” does not exist separately from formality, so it is necessary to understand how […]

Oligopoly and collusion in the Colombian electricity market

Autores:
Héctor Gómez
Jorge Barrientos
The Wholesale Electricity Market –WEM– in Colombia was created with Laws 142 and 143 of 1994 with the aim of promoting and preserving competition among agents and guaranteeing an efficient […]

Tipologías de pobreza en Cali: un análisis con base en el Sisbén

Autores:
Maria Castillo
Maria Isabel Caicedo
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo realizar un análisis comparativo de las condiciones de pobreza de la población encuestada por el Sistema de Identificación de Potenciales Beneficiarios de Programas Sociales (SISBEN) […]