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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 […]
Review on techniques of automatic solid waste separation in domestic applications
Autores:
Carlos Julián Gallego Duque
Luis Felipe Ortiz-Clavijo
Luisa María Alcaraz-Londoño
Sergio Armando Gutiérrez Betancur
The accelerated modern day urban development is accompanied by an increasing production of solid waste. While managing solid waste on an industrial scale presents different technological challenges, managing household waste […]
Does price-cap regulation work for increasing access to contraceptives? Aggregate- and pharmacy-level evidence from Colombia
Autores:
Álvaro Morales
César Mantilla
Paul Andrés Rodríguez Lesmes
Santiago Ortiz Ortiz
Tatiana Andia
Price caps through international reference pricing are widely used worldwide but not so commonly in over-thecounter markets. We study the short-term effects of a price cap regulation for oral contraceptives […]
Payment for ecosystem services and motivational crowding: Experimental insights regarding the integration of plural values via non-monetary incentives
Autores:
Lina Restrepo Plaza
Paola Arias Arévalo
Stefany Maca Millán
Conservation motivations
Environmental values
Payment for environmental services
Pro-environmental behavior
Public goods
Relational values
Incentives based on extrinsic motivations such as Payments for ecosystem Services (PES) could negatively affect intrinsic motivations (i.e., motivational crowding-out). This effect may be evidenced when conservation levels, after PES […]
The dynamics of U.S. industrial production: A time-varying Granger causality perspective
Autores:
Christopher Baum
Jesus Otero
Stan Hurn
The concept of Granger causality is an important tool in applied macroeconomics. Recursive econometric methods to analyze the temporal stability of Granger-causal relationships have recently been developed. These recursive procedures are used to re-evaluate […]
Tipologías de pobreza en Cali: un análisis con base en el Sisbén
Autores:
Maria Castillo
Maria Isabel Caicedo
Línea de pobreza
Metodología de Kaztman
Necesidades Básicas Insatisfechas
Pobreza
Pobreza Monetaria
SISBEN
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) […]
Convergence in retail gasoline prices: insights from Canadian cities
Autores:
Jesus Otero
Mark Holmes
Theodore Panagiotidis
This paper investigates the extent of convergence club formation in retail gasoline prices. Our study provides new insights through the use of a large disaggregated panel database for Canada that […]
Quality certification and firm performance. The mediation of human capital
Autores:
Juan Miguel Gallego
Luis H. Gutierrez
This paper investigates the impact of adopting quality management standards like ISO9001 on a firm’s performance and the mediator role of human capabilities within firms in this relationship. The article […]