En este artículo se presenta una descripción de la industria de televisión en Colombia haciendo distinción entre el servicio de televisión cerrada (o por suscripción) y el de televisión abierta. En el caso de este último, se propone un modelo coalicional para hacer una aproximación a la...

El objetivo de este artículo, que hace parte de un estudio más extenso, es analizar el tema de las fluctuaciones del producto en un escenario de competencia imperfecta a la luz de los hechos estilizados. Se conclue que estas se pueden originar por shocks de oferta o demanda, o simplemente por...

This article presents an equilibrium concept that, contrary to the traditional walrasian one, allows for the unbalance between supply and demand in different markets, making easier the analysis of those situations in which they differ persistently, as in the case of the labor market....

This paper shows one type of asymetric information problems, their theorethical implications, the design of contracts that mitigate them, as well as some experimental evidence. Furthermore, by extrapolating the results, the paper tries to illustrate certain macroeconomic implications obtained...

It is difficult to assess countries' relative success in addressing issues of public health because countries are subject to very different background conditions. To address this problem we offer a model-based approach for assessing health system performance. Specifically, an index of public...

Existe siempre la tentación de profetizar, y más acerca de un campo de estudio de 60 años que ha hecho considerables avances en tan corto tiempo, como es el caso de la teoría de juegos. Aunque sus antecedentes van, atrás en el tiempo, hasta los trabajos de Cournot (1838) y Edgeworth (1881),...

Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in Tunisia? The adoption by Tunisia of structural reforms of its economy in a context of gradual opening since 1986, had allowed the instauration in January 1993 of the convertibility of its current...

The recent debates over discriminatory versus uniform-price auctions in the UK and elsewhere have revealed an incomplete understanding of the limitations of some popular auction models when applied to real-world electricity markets. This has led certain regulatory authorities to prefer...