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Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas

Chong, Alberto; Ferrara, Eliana La - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980...

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Televisión y divorcio: evidencias de las novelas en Brasil

Chong, Alberto; Ferrara, Eliana La - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

En este trabajo se analiza el vínculo entre la televisión y el divorcio en Brasil mediante el estudio de la variación en la distribución temporal de la disponibilidad de la señal de Rede Globo —la red televisiva que tenía prácticamente el monopolio de las telenovelas en el país— en...

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Development of a Procedure for the Construction of GEI Emission Abatement Curves Incorporating the Uncertainty Associated to the Main Mitigation Variables

Clerc, Jacques; Diaz, Manuel; Campos, Bruno - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

The general objective of the study is to develop a methodology for the preparation of greenhouse-gas abatement curves for the energy demand sector, incorporating the uncertainty associated to the variables involved in estimating the marginal abatement costs. Furthermore, this approach will be...

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Regional Financial Development and Firm Growth in Peru

Moron, Eduardo; Salgado, Edgar; Seminario, Cristhian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper documents the relationship between regional financial development and firm growth in the Peruvian manufacturing sector. In order to control for mutual causality between credit availability and firm growth, industry differences in financial dependence on external funds are exploited....

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Access to Credit and the Size of the Formal Sector in Brazil

Pablo D`Erasmo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper studies the link between credit conditions and formalization in Brazil, as both credit and the rate of formalization have notably increased in the last decade. A firm dynamics model with endogenous formal and informal sectors is developed to quantitatively evaluate how much of the...

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Business-Government Interaction in Policy Councils in Latin America - Cheap Talk, Expensive Exchanges, or Collaborative Learning?

Schneider, Ben Ross - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

While effective industrial policy requires close cooperation between government and business, there is little agreement on what makes that cooperation work best. This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for public-private cooperation and the character of private sector representation....

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Impact Evaluation of a Program of Public Funding of Private Innovation Activities. An Econometric Study of FONTAR in Argentina

Lopez, Andres; Reynoso, Ana Maria; Rossi, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

, spend more on innovation activities such as research and development and purchase of technology. Increments in innovation … beneficiary firms are caused to privately finance part of the increment on innovation expenditures. This would support the … innovation activities are efficient in the sense that subsidized firm actually accomplish more innovations. Long run effects on …

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Incentivos fiscais à pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação no Brasil: Uma avaliação das políticas recentes

Sérgio Kannebley Jr.; Porto, Geciane Silveira - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Este trabalho investiga a efetividade de instrumentos tributários de incentivos à pesquisa, desenvolvimento e inovação utilizados no Brasil desde o início dos anos de 1990. Particularmente, são analisados dois instrumentos distintos. A Lei de Informática cuja primeira edição foi feita...

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Public Support to Innovation: The Colombian COLCIENCIAS' Experience

Crespi, Gustavo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper aims at evaluating the impacts of innovation promotion programs administrated by the Colombian Innovation … and that the main channel behind this result is product diversification (product innovation). …

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Institutos tecnológicos públicos en América Latina: Una reforma urgente

Bitran, Eduardo; Urrutia, Cristian M. González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Los Institutos Tecnológicos Públicos (ITPs) en América Latina han sufrido un deterioro significativo de sus capacidades en las últimas décadas. En la mayoría de los países están a la deriva, sin que exista una visión y misión claramente establecidas, contribuyendo a su pérdida de foco...

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