We consider school choice problems. We are interested in solutions that satisfy consistency. Consider a problem and a recommendation made by the solution for the problem. Suppose some students are removed with their positions in schools. Consider the “reduced” problem consisting of the...

We study a particular restitution problem where there is an indivisible good (land or property) over which two agents have rights: the dispossessed agent and the owner. A third party, possibly the government, seeks to resolve the situation by assigning rights to one and compensate the other....

We consider two-sided many-to-many matching markets in which each worker may work for multiple firms and each firm may hire multiple workers. We study individual and group manipulations in centralized markets that employ (pairwise) stable mechanisms and that require participants to submit rank...

This paper studies many-to-one matching markets where each student is assigned to a hospital. Each hospital has possibly multiple positions and responsive preferences. We study the game induced by the student-optimal stable matching mechanism. We assume that students play their weakly dominant...

Consider a problem in which the cost of building an irrigation canal has to be divided among a set of people. Each person has different needs. When the needs of two or more people overlap, there is congestion. In problems without congestion, a unique canal serves all the people and it is enough...

En la legislación colombiana existe un conjunto amplio y avanzado de principios de gestión del mercado del suelo urbano y durante este período se está en un proceso de afinación y desarrollo de instrumentos operativos fundados en ellos. Este texto pretende contribuir en este propósito...

A partir de las nuevas líneas de pobreza y nuevos ajustes a las encuestas de hogares que ha realizado la Misión para el Diseño de una Estrategia de Reducción de la Pobreza y la Desigualdad (MERPD), se estiman y analizan los determinantes de los cambios en la pobreza en dos períodos:...

Recent literature points to a relationship between inequality, economic growth and socio-economic variables. In order to continue to research the relationship between these factors and inequality in Colombia, it is essential to construct a precise measure of rural land distribution. This paper...

Para sorpresa de la opinión en Colombia, la mafia en el sentido de la definición tradicional de `empresarios de la protección´, asociada a la imagen de los mafiosos sicilianos, rusos o los japoneses de la yakuza, es un fenómeno muy reciente en la historia de las ciudades del país. Más de...

Entre 1938 y 1967, lo cual incluye el período de Bretton Woods después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Colombia fijó su tipo de cambio al dólar. A pesar de que el régimen cambiario operó bajo el esquema de fijación del tipo de cambio, el peso fue devaluado oficialmente en más de 12% en...