Under what circumstances is it necessary or convenient for an agent to rely on habits and rules? This paper focuses on the types of decision situation giving rise to their use. Even optimisation requires the development of rules, and for this reason mainstream economics cannot legitimately...

BCG are widely considered to be an ideal tool for analyzing individual depth of reasoning. Accordingly, experimental results are interpreted as arising from different levels of reasoning. In this paper we turn attention to heterogeneity in computational skills. We show that the presence of...

This paper studies the relationships between tourism and economic growth through a dynamic model showing how the time preference affect the investment in a economic sector based on natural resources as tourism. Assuming extreme values, it is possible to verify that a high time preference or...

La tasa de crecimiento económico puede estar positivamente relacionada con el gasto público en capital humano e infraestructura física. pero el gasto público tiene un costo de oportunidad, así que debe existir un nivel óptimo de tal gasto. En este documento se presenta un modelo de...

This work provides experimental evidence of the determinants of tax compliance in Mexico, and compares them to the results of an experiment administered in the United States reported by Alm, Jackson and McKee (1992). The results for both countries are contrasted to the predictions of the...

En la investigación se desarrolla un juego, dentro de la línea de economía experimental, utilizando un esquema de utilidad esperada, que es aplicado a 108 participantes. En particular, se busca evaluar la premisa de que, frente a un escenario de incertidumbre sobre las habilidades de los...

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...

Within the area of Behavioral game theory, we focus on a specific context, namely, on a game we called the Alternative traveler's dilemma. In this context, we observe that participants tend to choose strictly dominated strategies. In order to explain similar tendencies in other games,...

En Colombia y en otros países del mundo hay problemas de ahorro, en particular, los sistemas de ahorro voluntario pensional tienen baja cobertura. Dentro de este contexto, esta investigación pretende evaluar si algunos enfoques de la teoría del comportamiento que aplican para el análisis del...

This paper summarizes theoretical models and empirical evidence concerning political economy of public finances. It emphasizes political and institutional issues that influence different levels of public debt and fiscal deficits in countries and subnational entities with similar economic...