Currently, the electrical system in Argentina is working at its maximum capacity, decreasing the margin between the installed power and demanded consumption, and drastically reducing the service life of transformer substations ...

This article studies the response to unanticipated demand shocks in a simultaneous competition duopoly model, where adjustment is simultaneous as well it has no cost and it is characterized by a single choice to adjust ...

Asymmetric price adjustment is observed in several markets, most notably gasoline retail: a cost increase is passed through to consumers faster than a cost decrease. I develop a consumer-search model that generates this ...

Informality is at the center of the economic debate in Colombia, fueled by the high level prevalent in the country and its substantial increase during the 1990s. We study the effect of labor market rigidities, namely the ...

Closing the infrastructure gap in Latin America is one of the region's biggest challenges -- The structuring of projects through public-private partnerships is one of the tools we have today to involve the private sector ...

"Violence derived from armed conflict poses great challenges for organizations that either operate or distribute their products in areas affected by violence. this dissertation is composed of two essays that explore this ...

La integración de los modelos de Machine Learning en la econometría clásica se ha venido desarrollando a un ritmo desacelerado. En particular, modelos híbridos (ARIMA-ANN) no han sido implementados en el sector financiero ...