En el presente artículo se describen y analizan los resultados del proyecto de investigación “Identificación y análisis de la percepción de los clientes respecto a la calidad del servicio recibido de parte de las grandes superficies de la ciudad de Ibagué”, principalmente los...

Los clústeres empresariales se hanconstituido en mecanismos para impulsarla competitividad de sectoresen regiones y tradicionalmente hansido analizados desde la perspectivaeconómica (por su aporte en variablesmacroeconómicas), pero parasu consolidación todo conglomeradoempresarial requiere...

This document is the result of the Rural Territorial Dynamics Program, implemented by Rimisp in several Latin American countries in collaboration with numerous partners. The program has been supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada). We authorize the...

In this paper, we characterize conditions under which interest rate feedback rules wherby the nominal interest rate is set as an increasing function of the inflation rate generate multiple equilibria. We show that these conditions depend not only on the fiscal regime (as emphasized in the fiscal...

Once the zero bound on nominal interest rates is taken into account, Taylor-type interest-rate feedback rules give rise to unintended self-fulfilling decelerating inflation paths and aggregate fluctuations driven by arbitrary revisions in expectations. These undesirable equilibria exhibit the...

How useful is the concept of strategic culture for understanding when, where and how the European Union uses force? This paper will assess the extent to which agreement among the European Union Member States to conduct Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) operations is founded on a top-down...