We develop a theoretical model to study how changes in the durability of the goods affect prices of stolen goods, the incentives to steal and the equilibrium crime rate. When studying the production of durable goods, we ...

This paper presents a methodology to build series of purchases, consumption, and stocks of durable goods for the Chilean economy in the 1981-1999 period. The estimated series –both nominal and real– are presented in ...

El taller se realizó con el objeto de promover la colaboración institucional entre Organismos No Gubernamentales (ONG) que trabajan en la promoción de una Agricultura Sostenible en El Salvador, que inciden en el manejo de ...

Composite restorations have higher failure rates, more recurrent caries and increased frequency of replacement as compared to dental amalgam. Penetration of bacterial enzymes, oral fluids, and bacteria into the crevices ...

This paper presents a framework to study how changes in exogenous parameters, such as quality levels of new and used durables, affect the composition of durable good stocks. Our model extends the previous literature by ...