Tax incentives have traditionally been used as a tool by public policy makers in order to correct or reduce market failures. However, there is a widespread debate, in the international literature, about whether they can or not reaching this goal. In this paper, we propose a methodology to assess...

The fiscal situation in Colombia has been deteriorating over recent years, as seen in various fiscal indicators. Among the policy actions that can be made to avoid making the situation worse, is the increase of tax collections and thus generate an increase in revenue for the nation. Using a...

Overall, the investment projects of Plan Colombia in its program Alternative Development as evaluated in this work, which are equivalent to a foreign capital inflow of US$ 1164.5 million (for about 4 years) may increase GDP by about 1.2 percentage points, and lead to an increase in employment of...

La red productiva representa un mecanismo económico clave para comprender cómo los choques microeconómicos se propagan en el sistema económico. En esta línea se han desarrollo diversos trabajos teóricos bajo el supuesto de libre competencia, sin considerar el poder de mercado ni la posible...

The objective of the paper is to equilibrate the sectorial imbalances of the production of goods and services, identified in the Cuban productive structure, following a methodology that includes mathematical modeling. Econometric and goal programming (GP) models are designed to assess the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the spillover effects of national and local tax policies in Argentina. To this aim, I develop a static bi-regional general equilibrium model for the Buenos Aires City (CABA) and the rest of Argentina. The BAC is relevant for the rest of the country because it...

A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Argentina is presented in this paper using different sources of data. The result is a combination of GDP results for ARKLEMS – LAND UBA model and historical data from Argentina. The aim of the paper is to present a SAM that could be used for simulations of...

El presente documento analiza las encuestas de hogares y las metodologías de las estimaciones oficiales de pobreza de la región; en particular, en primer lugar busca analizar la forma en que se miden los ingresos de las personas y los hogares en las encuestas de hogares de América Latina y el...