El autor sustenta que la reforma agraria y las empresas reformadas en el Peru, a pesar de sus fallas macro-economicas, representan ensenanzas importantes sobre las consecuencias micro-organizacionales de la accion cooperativista

Übersicht über die Maßnahmen der 1969 eingeleiteten Agrarreform und mikroökonomische Analyse der Auswirkungen genossenschaftlichen Arbeitsmanagements auf die Effizienz der landwirtschaftlichen Kooperativen an der peruanischen Küste im Zeitraum 1975-1980

This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people's vulnerability to large scalecovariate shocks, and can...

Recent theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that risk (especially covariant risk that is correlated across producers) may discourage both the supply of agricultural credit and the willingness of small holders to utilize available credit and enjoy the higher expected incomes credit could...

The effective design and implementation of interventions that reduce vulnerability and poverty require a solid understanding of underlying poverty dynamics and associated behavioral responses. Stochastic and dynamic benefit streams can make it difficult for the poor to learn the value of such...

This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru to examine the relationship amongst risk preferences, loan take-up, and insurance purchase decisions. This area-based yield insurance can help reduce people's vulnerability to large scale covariate shocks, and...

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...