Listar 06. Documentos de trabajo por título
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Capital Specificity, the Distribution of Marginal Products and Aggregate Productivity
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-05-08)This paper studies the role of capital specificity and investment irreversibility on the distribution of marginal products of capital and aggregate TFP. We use a methodology new to the misallocation literature, based on ... -
Characterizing Fuel Choices and Fuelwood Use for Residential Heating and Cooking in Urban Areas of Central-Southern Chile: the Role of Prices, Income, and the Availability of Energy Sources and Technology
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-04-24)This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of fuel choices and intensity of fuelwood use for residential heating and cooking in central-southern Chile. By using information from a sample of 2,761 households in nine ... -
City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-10-09)Cities thrive through the diversity of their occupants because the availability of complementary skills enables firms in the formal sector to grow, delivering increasingly sophisticated products and services. The appearance ... -
Clean Energy Innovation in Latin America
(Interamerican Dialogue; CAF; Washington D.C., 2016-03-01)Clean energy research and commercialization have taken off over the last decade. The annual number of clean technology patent documents more than tripled between 2000 and 2014,while venture capital (VC) investment in the ... -
Climate disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean - the role of resilient infrastructure investments and adaptation policy
(Distrito Capital, 2023)The objective of this article is to analyze the impact of climate events in Latin America and the Caribbean on people and the economy from a historical and prospective perspective. First, the region experienced at least ... -
Climate financing through green funds
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-11-08)CAF is accredited by the main Green Funds for financing, thereby supporting its member countries in implementing projects and initiatives that help fulfill their climate commitments. -
Clústeres y agregación de valor en el sector agronegocios con sostenibilidad ambiental
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-07-27)Los agronegocios ya se desempeñaban en un escenario de cambio permanente a nivel global antes de la pandemia por el COVID-19. Esto es, operaban con una fuerte presión por incrementar su productividad, a la vez que buscaban ... -
Comercio internacional de electricidad. Asignación de rentas de congestión en transacciones internacionales de electricidad
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)Primera edición de documentos de trabajo sobre energía, publicados por CAF. La publicación presenta recomendaciones de política regulatoria para el manejo y la distribución de las rentas de congestión que se originan en ... -
Comparing Protection Types in The Peruvian Amazon: Multiple-Use Protected Areas Did No Worse for Forests
(2022-12-20)Protected areas (PAs), which restrict economic activities, are the leading land and marine policy for ecosystem conservation. Most contexts feature different types of protection that vary in their stringency of management. ... -
Las Competencias Transversales y Socioemocionales en los Marcos de Cualificaciones. Oportunidades para su identificación, medición y fortalecimiento
(DIALOGAS, Adelante, Agcid Chile, MESACTS y CAF; Caracas, 2019-04-09)La Mesa Regional de Cooperación Técnica sobre Competencias Transversales y Socioemocionales (MESACTS) se constituye en el año 2016 por el acuerdo entre entidades de gobierno de Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, México, El ... -
La compra pública como catalizador del ecosistema govtech
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-02-10)Con esta publicación se proveen lineamientos prácticos sobre cómo apalancar la contratación pública para promover los ecosistemas govtech y explorar los mecanismos de la compra pública de innovación (CPI) en el mundo, con ... -
Conceptos fundamentales y uso responsable de la inteligencia artificial en el sector público. Informe 2
(CAF; Caracas, 2022-06-30)Este segundo informe forma parte de la serie de estudios sobre el uso e impacto de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en el sector público en América Latina y se enfoca en los conceptos fundamentales y su uso responsable. Las ... -
Conflicting Incentives: Government Financial Aid, Vocational-to-University Track Change and Graduates’ Wages in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-10-16)Although literature on education economic returns is not un- common, research focusing in vocational students is quite scarce. This paper addresses labor market outcomes of vocational high schools’ students and their ... -
Contracting the Road to Development: Early Impacts of a Rural Roads Program
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)We studied here the early impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program (RRP) that is characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads with local supervision by ... -
Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-15)Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ... -
¿Cómo promover la productividad en y desde el Estado? El caso de la Comisión Nacional de Productividad de Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-02-10)La baja productividad es uno de los principales problemas que han padecido las economías de América Latina durante décadas. Para abordar este problema, Chile creó en 2015 la Comisión Nacional de Productividad (CNP) con un ... -
Crecimiento verde en el sector energético y sus efectos en el desempeño económico general: desarrollo y aplicación de un modelo híbrido para Colombia
(CAF; Bogotá, 2017-07-01)El cambio climático es uno de los mayores retos de la actualidad, siendo un tema de primera línea para los países y gobiernos comprometidos con generar políticas, materializadas en estrategias de desarrollo compatible con ... -
Credit Constraints for Higher Education
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)This paper addresses the importance of credit constraints explaining the gap on college enrollment between students coming from rich and poor families. Measuring the effect of credit constraints on college enrollment is ... -
Crime Perceptions and Reality in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2014)We show that perceptions of insecurity are strongly correlated with victimization at the individual level and suggest that the reason this relationship is usually not uncovered in simple cross country studies is that they ... -
Crime Protection Investment Spillovers: Theory and Evidence from the City of Buenos Aires
(CAF; Caracas, 2013)This paper studies spillover effects among potential crime victims from investment in observable protection technologies. Criminals and potential victims interact in a frictional market for offenses. Externalities within ...