El presente informe provee una visión general del sector municipal en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Incluye una síntesis de la estructura administrativa del estado, el marco normativo y la organización municipal, una descripción y análisis de las responsabilidades municipales...

The Venezuelan experience in the 1980s is a particularly fertile ground for the analysis of negative shocks. Two large shocks took place under very different control regimes, thus highlighting the role the institutional setting plays in determining the response. Moreover, the experience can shed...

This case study of Venezuela's democratic institution and policymaking processes is part of the broader regional project based on the theoretical framework developed by Spiller, Stein and Tommasi (2003). The framework focuses on the conditions that foster political cooperation among political...

Latin America spends large amounts of resources on social services, yet its life expectancy and education levels are low compared to other regions with similar levels of income. A key reason is the inherent difficulty of making social services produce efficiently in response to demands and...

In this study, the authors use a newly developed panel data set for Venezuela in the period between 1994 and 2002 to analyze three basic questions. The first relates to the influence of personal characteristics and previous labor market experience in the choice of different search methods. The...

En este documento analizamos el comportamiento reciente de las exportaciones a Venezuela, ya nivel de firma, la dependencia de los ingresos frente a las ventas realizadas al vecino país en2006. Para esto se utilizó la base de comercio exterior del Departamento AdministrativoNacional de...

The sudden collapse of oil prices poses a challenge to inflation targeting central banks in oil exporting economies. This paper illustrates that challenge and conducts a quantitative assessment of the impact of permanent changes in oil prices in a small and open economy, in which oil represents...