The paper analyzes public policies on the rural sector implemented in our country, within an international compared approach, and its implications for Argentina's economic performance, particularly its agricultural sector. The analysis derives toward our insistence on the need for a federal tax...

This note is a new version of the one already released this year making a conceptual analysis of what the author developed in detail in his 2012 paper dealing with crises and economic models. It re-emphasizes the need to introduce into the discussion the question of the moral behavior of...

This paper aims to clarify the characteristics and attributes of the method of benefit in the distribution of tax burdens to finance public goods. The implications of the Samuelson conditions on the criteria of efficiency and equity in taxation, and a reformulation of these conditions, designed...

The paper attempts an explanation of the alleged "lack of adequate economic models" to predict and eventually avoid - using certain policy recommendations - the recurrent financial and fiscal crises, and finally, economic crisis, recurrently registered in the world. From author opinion, in the...

Este trabajo estudia la evolución de los indicadores de pobreza intertemporal en Argentina durante los últimos 15 años. Aprovechando el esquema de rotación de la EPH, se construyen paneles sucesivos durante el período 1997-2012 que permiten descomponer la pobreza en sus componentes crónico...

A new Stata command, xtsktest, is proposed to explore non-normalities in linear panel data models. The tests explore skewness and excess kurtosis allowing researchers to identify departures away from gaussianity in both error components of a standard panel regression, sepa- rately or jointly....

Se conoce como skill premium a la brecha salarial promedio existente entre los trabajadores calificados y los no calificados. A partir de la segunda globalización financiera, en los países desarrollados se ha visto un ensanchamiento de este diferencial mientras que en los países en desarrollo...