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This paper evaluates the feasibility of establishing a Multiple Use Marine Protected Area. The methodology was applied to evaluate three proposed sites in Chile with diverse conservation needs, social stress and poverty levels, and different economic activities (small-scale fishing, heavy indust...

We study the design of an economic incentive based program –a subsidy- to induce adoption of more efficient technology in a pollution reduction program in southern Chile. Stated preferences methods, contingent valuation (CV), and choice experiment (CE) are used to estimate the probability of adop...

Este artículo considera esta heterogeneidad entre la población y examina índices de desigualdad e inequidad en la utilización de servicios médicos para niños, adultos, y adultos mayores en Chile entre el 2000 y 2011

This paper departs from the traditional analysis of the effects of risk aversion in entrepreneurship to study the determinants of entrepreneurial risk aversion in developing a new venture and becoming an entrepreneur. We took fear of failing as a proxy for risk aversion and applied our analysis t...

El artículo entrega un diagnóstico respecto a la calidad de la educación en Chile y a la vez da a conocer una serie de propuestas para mejorar la calidad de ésta, orientado a buscar soluciones prácticas a los problemas detectados y a proponer soluciones concretas para paliar esta realidad, refiri...

This document analyzes the perception of small innovative enterprises (SIE) in Latin America towards the effectiveness of the legal protection of intellectual property rights (IPR). To analyze the costs of using IPR, we surveyed 352 SIEs from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru...

Patents are the main source of data on innovation. Since most of the innovative activity happens outside of the patenting system, and since patents –and innovations- have different quality, complexity, and impact on each market, unweighted sums of patents and proxies are a bad indicator of a coun...

I examine the role of investor attention on seasoned equity offerings’ (SEOs) outcomes. I use an archive of Thomson Reuters’ news articles to proxy for investor attention. I find that the volumes of news articles prior to the offerings are positively associated with the offer price discounts of S...

Entrepreneurship has been associated with three categories of factors: (1) macroeconomic factors, such as unemployment and income; (2) factors related to government institutions, such as corruption and political stability; and (3) competitiveness-related factors, such as the capacity for innovati...

Scholars have articulated a number of arguments regarding the beneficial effects of opportunity-motivated (as opposed to necessity-driven) entrepreneurs, and this study delves somewhat deeper into this topic. First, this study uses the expectation of job creation over five years as a metric to me...