We document and analyze the emergence and consolidation of neoliberalism in higher education in economics in Colombia. The research focuses on four interrelated categories through which the neoliberal ideology changed the scientific field of economics by replacing endogenously developed...

We use process tracing to test the hypothesis of a specific strategy in the process of discussing and enacting a policy agenda. Our case study is Colombia, where the trace of events and milestones allow us to detect the strategy followed in implementing neoliberal reforms during the 1980s-2000s....

Theoretical choice is not an easy task for economists, as there is always a dilemma between syntactic epistemic virtues (parsimony, generality, unifying power, etc.), and semantic epistemic virtues (relationship between evidence and theory). This document analyzes the theoretical choice process...

The report investigates the impacts of short-term rental services (STRs), such as Airbnb, Homeaway, etc., on the residential housing market and hotel/accommodation market in the city of Seattle, Washington. Our primary goal is to examine critiques against STRs to assess their empirical validity...

The report investigates the impacts of short-term rental services (STRs), such as Airbnb, Homeaway, etc., on the residential housing market and hotel/accommodation market in the city of Seattle, Washington. Our primary goal is to examine critiques against STRs to assess their empirical validity...

A land monopoly is a theoretical “impossibility” which, nonetheless, allows for a spatial empirical approach. We specify spatial tests of land monopoly, understood as a pricing strategy where land prices can be ‘over and above' the ones determined by city-wide location and market...

This article analyses the series of prices for new housing in Bogotaacute;, considering this market's spatial nature. A spatialized database was thus constructed which included more than 17,000 records and led to obtaining information about prices and constructed areas from May 1992 to April...

This article presents two sets of controversies about the dominant and not very general character of the literature on New Economic Geography (NEG). The first line of analysis holds that the NEG concentrates on a series of topics that are not very interesting from the point of view of...

This paper assesses the static and dynamic neutrality of Land Value Capture (LVC) in the Colombian urban system 2003–2018, using spatially and non-spatially controlled panel models. LVC analyses are usually performed at the city or metropolitan area level, we contribute by performing the...