La política tributaria sobre los combustibles en Chile siempre ha mantenido impuestos menores para las gasolinas que para el diésel. Como resultado, la fracción de automóviles con motor diésel ha crecido considerablemente. Un 20% de las emisiones de motores diésel equivalen al 80% de las...

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated with targeting fewer poor people and better, more...

Despite rapid economic growth and poverty reduction, inequality in Chile has remained high and remarkably constant over the last 20 years, prompting academic and public interest in the subject. Due to data limitations, however, research on inequality in Chile has concentrated on the national and...

It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non-indigenous Chileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper, we use poverty mapping methodologies that are typically applied...

In the last decade, the importance of exploiting Chile’s Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) has increased significantly, as fossil fuel prices have risen and concerns regarding climate change issues grown, posing an important threat to its economy. However, to date, the advancement of Renewable...

This article describes and characterizes the oil markets and liquid by-products in Chile from the viewpoint of industrial organization. With that objective in mind, first a systematic description is provided of each of the markets comprising this industry, taking into account the vertical...

Gasoline taxes usually represent a large fraction of gasoline prices. For this reason, when prices hike public pressure increases to either reduce or eliminate the tax to provide relief to consumers, which implicitly assumes that a tax reduction would be passed on completely to consumers....