Este artículo analiza cualitativa y cuantitativamente el desarrollo de las tomas de control corporativo con posterioridad a la promulgación de la Ley de OPAS y Gobiernos Corporativos, promulgada en el año 2000, siendo uno de sus objetivos el establecer los efectos que dicha ley tuvo sobre el...

Este documento de trabajo analiza la estructura competitiva de la industria de fondos mutuos en Chile en base a un modelo modificado del tipo estructura – conducta – desempeño, en donde se toma en consideración las barreras de entrada, existencia de sustitutos, diferenciación del...

This article intends to serve as a practical tool for the design of a regulatory framework in a context of conflicts of interest in the activities capital markets institutions. In the first part of this article those situations of conflicts of interest are identified, described and classified....

The main purpose of this article is to briefly present the Keynesian explanation of business cycle, economic fluctuation and crises, and also the solutions proposed from Keynesian perspective to the economic problems that characterize the bust phases of the business cycles (unemployment,...

Unprecedented demographic changes are set to unfold in most of the industrialized world. They are relevant not only because of the diminishing pool of workers, but also because of the increasing importance of retirees as an economic class. Retirees’ consumption and saving patterns can differ...

An understanding of, and an intervention into, the present capitalist reality requires that we put together the insights of Karl Marx on labor, as well as those of Hyman Minsky on finance. The best way to do this is within a longer-term perspective, looking at the different stages through which...

The global financial crisis of 2007–2008, consequences of which continue to adversely affect the world economy, is often called a ‘Minsky crisis’. A prominent American economist Hyman Philip Minsky studied capitalist economic system paying special attention to its major properties, in...

The paper argues that the economic imbalances that caused the present crisis should be thought of as the outcome of the interaction of the effects of financial deregulation with the macroeconomic effects of rising inequality. In this sense rising inequality should be regarded as a root cause of...

Orthodox and heterodox theories of financial crises are hereby compared from a theoretical viewpoint, with emphasis on their genesis. The former view (represented by the fourth-generation models of Paul Krugman) reflects the neoclassical vision whereby turbulence is an exception; the latter...

This article underlines the restrictive perspective of the neo-keynesian research program of "microdoundations of unemployment", compared to the keynesian project of a general theory which would marginalize the classical cases. This neo-keynesian program has first restricted the interpretation...