En el presente trabajo se muestra evidencia para rechazar la Hipótesis de Mercado Eficiente (HME) a través de la anomalía efecto día (day effect). Se utilizan dos aproximaciones: la primera, bajo el supuesto de normalidad, estima un modelo lineal que corrobora los hallazgos de estudios...

En el presente trabajo se muestra evidencia para rechazar la Hipótesis de Mercado Eficiente (HME) a través de la anomalía efecto día (day effect). Se utilizan dos aproximaciones: la primera, bajo el supuesto de normalidad, estima un modelo lineal que corrobora los hallazgos de estudios...

Este trabajo estima la proporción del ingreso que se destina al pago del IVA al implementar ocho estructuras tributarias utilizando métodos no paramétricos, a partir de la Encuesta de Ingresos y Gastos de 1994. La estructura tributaria más neutral es la definida por la Ley 633 de 2000. Se...

Este documento realiza un estudio comparativo e inferencial sobre la relación existente entre la descentralización fiscal y la estabilización macroeconómica para un grupo de países latinoamericanos: Argentina, México, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia y Colombia. Para este efecto se utiliza dos...

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices. Widespread criticism of these indices led to the adoption of a new official methodology in 2011 based on unit values from consumption survey data. We propose an alternative...

This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly...

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that concentration indices fell between 2002 and 2007. However this appears to be...

The impact of increased affluence on life satisfaction is a matter of some controversy. This paper examines the impact of the recent economic boom in Ireland upon the level and distribution of various domains of well-being. There is evidence of a substantial increase in life satisfaction in the...