Bogotá, Colombia

Junio de 2008

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Presentación de Adolfo Meisel y Margarita Vega Acevedo en The 3rd International Conference on Economics and Human Biology

Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg.

Presentated by Olivier J. Blanchard in Bogotá.

The document "AIR POLLUTION IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA: A Concentration-Response Approach" was presented on 27 April 2005.

Human health is increasingly viewed as central in economic development, both as a measure of development and as an input. Early mortality and excessive morbidity are serious constraints to economic growth. The impact of pollution on human health has recently become a focus of research in…

For the evaluation of macroeconomic policies Colombian authorities rely heavily, if not  exclusively, on the operational framework known as the Financial Programming Model developed by the IMF in the 1950s. Based on this static framework, the formulation of fiscal policy in the country,…

Historically, when an economy emerges from recession, employment grows with, or soon after, the resumption of GDP growth. However, following the two most recent recessions in the United States, employment growth has lagged the recovery in GDP by several quarters, a phenomenon thathas been termed…

How far is the US social insurance system from an e±cient system? We answer this question within a model where agents receive idiosyncratic, labor-productivity shocks that are privately observed. When social security and income taxation comprise the social insurance system, the maximum possible…

In an incomplete markets economy, after asset markets have closed, there typically exist Pareto improving asset reallocations. The question that naturally arises is: how much does a planner need to know if he is to figure out one such asset reallocation? Existing identification results (Kubler…

This paper discusses alternative approaches to estimate models of behavior of mortgage debtors. Specifically, the focus is on the understanding of default decisions. The goal…

Near the end of 2002, Colombia’s Congress approved Law 789, better known as the labor market reform. Regardless of the fact that the reform has not yet completed two years of operation, and many of the changes in the labor legislation are expected to have long term effects, this study intends to…

It is known that the Colombian economy as well as the most of the Latin American economies experienced a period of relative economic stability until the end of seventies. However, since the early eighties, a common fact in these economies but Colombia, was a debt repudiation process, economic…