When analyzing the impact of international organizations on the environment, two main issues arise. First, we have to quantify the participation of the organizations on countries they deal with. Second, the environmental impact of this involvement has to be measured. This paper attempts to do...

When analyzing the impact of international organizations on the environment, two main issues arise. First, we have to quantify the participation of the organizations on countries they deal with.Second, the environmental impact of this involvement has to be measured. This paper attempts to do...

Latin American MSMEs differ with respect to their OECD counterparts with respect to the productivity gap between MSMEs and large firms – which is higher in Latin American countries –, as well as to the level of integration in value chains – which is lower – and their informality degree...

Mobile Money Systems can be seen as a technological innovation of high impact on developing countries and poorer population segments. They lower transaction costs and facilitate or enable financial transactions that either did not occur before or that were transacted at a higher risk and price....

This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of housing demand, following an approach based on Rosen's (1974) two-step procedure consisting of...

This document surveys the Uruguayan housing market, first describing the main housing programs and policies, then comparing their design with households' characteristics and needs. The document additionally measures Uruguay's housing deficit, using the basis deficit as well as quantitative and...

Motivated by the findings of Ramada-Sarasola (2009) and the lack of robustness of the previous literature's results on foreign entry mode choice to model specification in this paper I perform an Extreme Bounds Analysis to determine which of almost 60 explanatory variables used in the literature...

This paper reviews and criticizes in depth the empirical literature on foreign entry mode choice providing a motivation to perform a robustness analysis. Through a review of the theoretical approaches behind each study, as well as by comparing the way theoretical constructs are operationalized,...

Uruguay's inability to sustain high levels of economic growth cannot be fully explained by external shocks, the prevailing institutional setting or the level of human capital accumulation. Instead, low investment in knowledge capital stands as a most likely explanation. This hypothesis is...