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A partir de una reseña del programa económico aplicado en Chile durante la segunda mitad de los años ochenta, el presente estudio analiza los resultados y efectos, tanto políticos como económicos, de la política de privatizaciones que se llevó a cabo en el curso de ese período. Se concluye aquí q...

This study is framed on a global vision of women participation in entrepreneurial activity as an introductory note and proceeds with a comprehensive assessment of the experience of women entrepreneurs in Chile in the last thirty years. Chile is one of the fastest growing and most stable economies...

In this article, we examine the evolution of entrepreneurship in Latin America as presented in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) studies. These studies present a key set of internationally comparable statistics on entrepreneurship, which have supplied the data for important studies of the...

La presente investigación buscar salvar la brecha de información existente en cuanto al conocimiento de la empresa familiar en Chile, permitiendo su mayor inclusión en el debate público y contribuyendo al creciente interés internacional asociado a la relación entre empresa familiar y políticas p...

The research on downsizing has focused either on the causes or on the effects of downsizing on firms’ performance. This paper empirically investigates how the interaction between increasing employment protection legislation (EPL) and firms’ attributes affects downsizing decisions, our hypothesis ...

I investigate whether the degree of labor market imperfections in a country affect microfinance institutions’ (MFIs) profitability and impact MFIs’ effectiveness in improving lowincome households’ inclusion in financial markets. I find that the financial performance of MFIs is high in heavily reg...