Exploiting the implementation of a Prepaid Electricity Program in the region of Antioquia (Colombia), we estimate the impact that switching to a prepaid program has on users’ energy consumption behavior. In...

La accesibilidad a las oportunidades de empleo y la variabilidad de los precios del suelo representan ideas nucleares del modelo canónico de localización residencial. Este artículo explora la distribución de los...

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 intervention,...

This article examines the aggregate implications of several policies aimed at removing barriers to formality. To this end, we build a dynamic equilibrium model in which heterogeneous agents choose to work...

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 energy...

We study how text messages incorporating behavioral insights can be used as a tool to affect civil servant performance when state capacity is weak. By experimentally varying the content of a...

This paper proposes a set of five indicators to monitor the bioeconomy in Colombia and Antioquia, one of the main regions of the country. The proposed indicators encompass the dimensions of...

We design a framed bargaining experiment to explore how farmers allocate inherited land. In the experiment, two players with heterogeneous productivity inherit a land plot yielding a risky production, and some...

Las tiendas de barrio, entendidas como microestablecimientos comerciales que no hacen parte de cadenas o franquicias, son uno de los elementos culturales y económicos centrales de los barrios tradicionales en gran...

El gran motor de la economía contemporánea es el emprendimiento: agentes de cambio detrás de las fuerzas creativo-destructivas schumpeterianas, que garantizan que nuevas empresas más productivas reemplacen los procesos más obsoletos....