The existence of incomplete financial markets, in an environment of uncertainty, is one of the problems of the Latin American economies, that determines a suboptimal path of public spending, with the consequent loss of social welfare. The existence of a high degree of positive correlation...

This article presents, first, a graphical analysis of the well-known equality of saving and investment for the cases of Spain and the Eurozone between 2000 and 2011. Then, correlation and Granger causality between government deficit and private deficit in both economies is analyzed. Since public...

En 2009 el crecimiento de la economía colombiana fue casi nulo, el PIB aumento en promedio un 0,4%, siendo éste el peor desempeño de la década. Los efectos de la crisis mundial que se reflejaron en la fuerte contracción de la demanda y en la caída de la producción de los sectores...

The existence of incomplete financial markets, in an environment of uncertainty, is one of the problems of the Latin American economies, that determines a suboptimal path of public spending, with the consequent loss of social welfare. The existence of a high degree of positive correlation...

This manuscript examines different aspects that favor and restrict the collection of property taxes at the municipal level. The results indicate that the cadastral modernization, the use of information technologies -translated into the existence of a cadastral management system-, the use of...

Several theoretical and methodological perspectives have been used to understand the trans-formations occurred during the last 20 years in the Costa Rican State. This work aims to de-fine a coherent approach of such transformations in order to understand them and be able to offer possible...

The increasing burden of obesity and related non-communicable diseases in the world has encouraged the design of effective policies in order to contain this trend. Excise taxes on low-nutritious food and sugar-sweetened beverages consumption, such as soft-drinks, have been proposed. Currently, a...

Tax evasion is an illegal activity combated by the tax administration through different tools. Implicitly the risk is present in this type of activity. Therefore, the risk assessment is an important component on the decision of evasive behavior. At the same time, there are other factors that...

We study the effect of a household subsidy to induce the adoption of more efficient and less polluting wood combustion technologies. We compare, through numerical simulations, several subsidy designs with respect to the impact on aggregate emissions, costs, and cost-effectiveness indicators. Two...