Presenta la incorporación y generación local de conocimientos tecnológicos en una planta metalmecánica argentina, la cual se desarrolla dentro de una tecnología discontinua, donde el nivel, estabilidad y ritmo de crecimiento de la demanda condicionan tanto el ritmo como la naturaleza del...

Da a conocer los resultados de un Programa de Investigaciones en el campo de la producción metalmecánica latinoamericana, el cual constituye un intento para cubrir la carencia de información básica acerca de la realidad metalmecánica de la región. Examina en detalle la conducta económica...

Presenta la incorporación y generación local de conocimientos tecnológicos en una planta metalmecánica argentina, la cual se desarrolla dentro de una tecnología discontinua, donde el nivel, estabilidad y ritmo de crecimiento de la demanda condicionan tanto el ritmo como la naturaleza del...

The purpose of the present paper is to review some of the research findings obtained during the course of a four year long exploration into the economics of technology generation in LDCs. Individual firm and industry studies were undertaken by a team of economists and engineers in some of the...

Da a conocer los resultados de un Programa de Investigaciones en el campo de la producción metalmecánica latinoamericana, el cual constituye un intento para cubrir la carencia de información básica acerca de la realidad metalmecánica de la región. Examina en detalle la conducta económica...

This paper investigates the effects of political (mis)alignment on public service delivery when mandates are shared between state and local governments. We analyze sewage treatment policies in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Relying on difference-in-differences estimations, we establish a...

This paper provides the first experimental evaluation of the participatory budgeting model showing that it increased public participation in the process of public decision making, increased local tax revenues collection, channeled larger fractions of public budgets to services stated as top...

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 Latin American countries, to explore the effects of political parties on redistribution. First, consistent with a central, but still contested, assumption of the...

In the last decades, countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced a dramatic increase in the levels of higher education enrollment. Using administrative data from Chile and Colombia, we find that this phenomenon is not always associated with higher private individual returns. In...

This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language is seen as a set of conventional signs that point to types, and the credibility of a message depends on the strategic context. Formally, there is an encoding-decoding step where...