Using data from Santiago, Chile, we study the impact of increased accessibility on residential floor space and its heterogeneity across income, distance to the CBD, floor space density, and zoning regulation. We find an average floor space elasticity of 0.9, which is consistent with the...

Understanding Business Models (BMs) has become an essential capability for organizations seeking to drive growth, revitalize a lagging core or defend against industry disruption. However, this concept still has multiple interpretations, as it is often intertwined with others, like business...

Despite decades of economic development and the general improvement in the quality of life of its people, Santiago, the capital of Chile, presents high levels of residential segregation along socioeconomic lines. A debate about legal reforms to address this phenomenon is currently occurring....

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo explora la relación entre el derecho urbanístico y procesos de exclusión social, a través del análisis de tres conflictos urbanos recientemente producidos a pro- pósito del intento de construir viviendas sociales en comunas de altos y medianos ingresos en...

The COVID-19 pandemic has reached almost every corner of the world. Despite the historical development, approval, and distribution of vaccines in some countries, non-pharmaceutical interventions will remain an essential strategy to control the pandemic until a substantial proportion of the...

This paper studies the effect of ambient light on crime, taking advantage of the daylight saving time (DST) policy, which imposes exogenous variations in daylight exposure at specific hours of the day. The paper uses a rich administrative database managed by Chile's national police, a...

This paper identifies and quantifies the effects of better transport accessibility on student performance measured by mathematics test scores. A 27 km new subway line and the extension of an existing line in Santiago (Chile) in the mid-2000s reduced the distance between some schools and their...