06. Documentos de trabajo: Envíos recientes

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    • Workfare and crime: evidence for Argentina 

      Alzúa, María Laura (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      This paper investigates the effect of introducing a massive workfare program on property crimes. In order to circumvent the endogeneity problem common to joint factors determining crime and demand for workfare we make use ...

    • Training or technical assistance? A field experiment to learn what works to increase managerial capital for female microentrepeneurs 

      Valdivia, Martín (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      This study evaluates the impacts of a business training program serving female microentrepreneurs in Lima that have previously benefited with the titling of their urban parcels. The intervention included personal development, ...

    • Estructura tributaria y evasión impositiva en América Latina 

      Gómez-Sabaini, Juan Carlos; Jiménez, Juan Pablo (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      Este informe estudia la evolución y las características del nivel y la estructura de la carga tributaria promedio en la región a través de los últimos veinte años, buscando identificar las diferencias relevantes entre ...

    • Tax structure in Latin America: its impact on the real economy and compliance 

      Martínez-Vázquez, Jorge; Vulovic, Violeta (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      In this paper we review the structure of tax systems in Latin America and analyze their impact on the real economy-- economic growth, macro-economic stability, income redistribution and foreign direct investment--, and on ...

    • The political economy of budgeting in Latin America procedures, oversight, and participation 

      Pereira, Carlos; Melo, Marcus (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      This report provides a selective overview of issues pertaining to the budgetary process and a mapping out of budgetary institutions in Latin America and assesses to what extent budgets play the role societies expect from ...

    • Government performance, taxation and citizen participation: evidence from Brazil 

      Timmons, Jeffrey; Garfías, Ek Francisco (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      Fiscal contract theories of the state hypothesize that government performance affects tax collection and that institutions that foster representation and accountability link taxes and services. These propositions have yet ...

    • The economics of tax evasion 

      Besfamille, Martín (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      This paper begins by reviewing the problem of tax evasion measurement. Based on available data, I conclude that this problem is far from being negligible, both for developed and developing countries. I also present in more ...

    • Working mothers and intergenerational mobility: evidence from sibling schooling gaps in Venezuela 

      Ortega, Daniel (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      This paper documents the change in intergenerational mobility over the 35 year period between 1975 and 2010 in Venezuela and finds that equality of opportunities increased significantly from the mid 1970's until around ...

    • El tamaño del estado y su impacto redistributivo en América Latina 

      Ocampo, José Antonio; Malagón, Jonathan (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      Este ensayo analiza la evolución del gasto público en América Latina a lo largo de las dos últimas décadas, y ofrece como referencia una perspectiva de más larga duración cuando la disponibilidad de estadísticas lo permite. ...

    • Iniciativa CAF de bosques 

      CAF (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      En este documento de trabajo CAF presenta un panorama y evaluación de la situación de los bosques de América Latina. Asimismo expone las líneas de acción que sigue en este tema a través de su programa BioCAF. CAF en su ...

    • Acceso al financiamiento de la pequeña y mediana empresa en Colombia: retos de política pública 

      Meléndez, Marcela (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      Este artículo presenta de manera resumida las reflexiones y hallazgos de trabajos previos sobre el acceso al financiamiento de PYMES con el propósito de que la discusión de aspectos del caso Colombiano sirva para aportar ...

    • Development effects of electrification: evidence from the geologic placement of hydropower plants in Brazil 

      Lipscomb, Molly; Mobarak Mushfiq, Ahmed; Bahram, Tania (CAF; Caracas, 2011)
      We estimate the development effects of electrification across Brazil over the period 1960-2000. Brazil relies almost exclusively on hydropower, which requires intercepting water at high velocity. We build an engineering ...

    • Information sharing and access to finance of SMEs: cross country evidence from survey data 

      Galindo, Arturo; Micco, Alejandro (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      Using a survey of firms in 61 countries around the world (WBES) and econometric techniques that allow us to deal with observed and unobserved country specific components as well as with partial endogeneity, we explore the ...

    • People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil 

      Clemens, Michael; Ortega, Daniel (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      This paper explores testable implications of a simple model of spatial heterogeneity in earnings, a model in which this spatial heterogeneity arises both from differences in the places that people work and differences among ...

    • Canon minero y decisiones fiscales subnacionales en el Perú 

      Sanguinetti, Pablo (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      Este trabajo estudia el impacto del canon minero en las prácticas fiscales sub-nacionales en Perú. En particular se explorara si el régimen de distribución de fondos asociados a la actividad minera ha promovido o no la ...

    • Oil abundance and growth 

      Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Raissi, Mehdi (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      The aim of this paper is to investigate the following questions: Is an abundance of oil, a curse or a blessing? What are the effects of oil abundance on growth and economic development, as seen in the level of income per ...

    • Access to Financing of SMEs in Argentina 

      Pasquini, Ricardo; De Giovanni, Martín (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      In this paper, we examine SMEs in Argentina in search for a measurement of those who are credit constrained. We also estimate a model for the determinants of credit rejection taking into account those that are self-excluded. ...

    • Flexibility matters: do more rigid loan contracts reduce demand for microfinance? 

      Pearlman, Sarah (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      Despite the rapid expansion of microfinance services in the past several decades, the low use of formal credit exhibited by poor households, the high dropout rates experienced by many microfinance institutions, and the ...

    • Banking Services Supply and Micro Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia 

      Álvarez, Fernando; Meléndez, Marcela (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      This paper uses a dataset of a survey of Colombian micro firms from 2003 to 2007 in combination with data from publicly available sources about banking services supply at the municipality level, to assess the impact of the ...

    • Estructura de financiamiento y restricciones financieras de las empresas en Colombia 

      Arbeláez, María Angélica; Perry, Guillermo; Becerra, Alejandro (CAF; Caracas, 2010)
      En este estudio evaluamos las restricciones financieras que enfrentan las empresas en Colombia e identificamos los determinantes de su estructura de financiamiento. Utilizando datos a nivel de firma, analizamos la evolución ...