We evaluate the performance of an environmental market in a less developed country based on the experience from Santiago-Chile's particulate matter control program. We find that grandfathering the permits has created economic incentives for incumbent sources to more readily declare their...

"This collection represents a declaration of principles of the Center for Public Studies, an economic and scientific elite that governs studies and problem-solving apparatus about environmental protection in Chile"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

In an effort to reduce air pollution and congestion, Latin American cities have experimented with different policies to persuade drivers to give up their cars in favor of public transport. This paper looks at two of such policies: the driving restriction program introduced in Mexico City in...

Borrowing from the bundling literature, the paper presents a novel model of vertical and horizontal differentiation applied to transport decisions: households differ in their preferences for transportation modes — cars vs public transport — and in the amount of travel. Using few observables,...