Análisis del plan sectorial de educación “Bogotá: una gran escuela” y sus resultados en materia social educativa de la ciudad, periodo 2004-2008

La educación es un factor fundamental e indispensable para la formación y calidad de vida de todo individuo, su aplicabilidad vista como un derecho y bien fundamental para las personas debe tener la prioridad e importancia merecida por parte de los Estados, en pro del desarrollo no solo de los individuos sino de la sociedad como tal, pues la mejor forma de enriquecerla es a través de libros, colegios, computadores y demás elementos que pertenecen a una verdadera calidad social educativa. En ese sentido, se plantea un estudio de caso del plan sectorial de educación “Bogotá: una grande escuela” en el periodo 2004-2008

Análisis de la priorización del gasto público social y su incidencia en las condiciones de vida de la población colombiana en el gobierno del presidente Álvaro Uribe Vélez (2002 - 2010)

en esta investigación diagnóstica se desarrolla un análisis en torno a las asignaciones presupuestales referentes al gasto público social durante el gobierno del presidente Uribe Vélez y como dichas asignaciones incidieron en las condiciones y la calidad de vida de la población colombiana. Finalmente, el autor de esta investigación propone una alternativa de solución al problema planteado presentando algunos nuevos parámetros para que la asignación del GPS cumpla con los objetivos propuestos de eficacia y eficiencia.

La competitividad, un acercamiento en las compañías de financiamiento comercial

Las reformas que se aplicaron a la economía colombiana a comienzos de los noventa, se realizaron con el fin de generar excedentes competitivos y permanentes para el mercado internacional. Por lo cual se plantearon dos objetivos. primordiales : la reconversión industrial y la inserción internacional que llevan a un cambio sustancial en la economía.

Military empowerment and civilian targeting in civil war

Civilians constitute a large share of casualties in civil wars across the world. They are targeted to create fear and punish allegiance with the enemy. This maximizes collaboration with the perpetrator and strengthens the support network necessary to consolidate control over contested regions. I develop a model of the magnitude and structure of civilian killings in civil wars involving two armed groups who Öght over territorial control. Armies secure compliance through a combination of carrots and sticks. In turn, civilians di§er from each other in their intrinsic preference towards one group. I explore the e§ect of the empowerment of one of the groups in the civilian death toll. There are two e§ects that go in opposite directions. While a direct e§ect makes the powerful group more lethal, there is an indirect e§ect by which the number of civilians who align with that group increases, leaving less enemy supporters to kill. I study the conditions under which there is one dominant e§ect and illustrate the predictions using sub-national longitudinal data for Colombiaís civil war.

Desarrollo de un modelo de gestión de riesgos de una empresa comercializadora de productos cosméticos

La presente tesis se enfoca en desarrollar un adecuado modelo de gestión de riesgo operativo. Actualmente la Superintendencia de Compañías no requiere que una empresa del sector real desarrolle un plan de gestión y administración de contingencias ante este tipo de riesgos, y dado que la identificación de los riesgos que enfrenta una empresa del sector real es de igual importancia para las compañías de este sector como para una institución financiera, he creído conveniente desarrollar mi tesis tomado en cuenta los parámetros que establece la Superintendencia de Bancos del Ecuador para las Instituciones Financieras. Con el objetivo de llegar a diseñar correctamente este modelo de gestión de riesgo operativo se aplicarán conocimientos relacionados a finanzas, gestión administrativa, gestión del riesgo operativo y finanzas corporativas. Se valuarán los estados financieros y el ambiente de control interno a fin de recolectar la información que permita evaluar el actual sistema de manejo de la compañía analizada con el objetivo de dar seguimiento a los procesos que actualmente se aplican, para poder mejorarlos y optimizarlos. Para realizar este modelo aplicaremos una investigación profunda, analizando cada uno de los aspectos determinantes en el actual panorama administrativo de la empresa como el incremento de las ventas, del mercado y la implementación de un centro de distribución. Esto permitirá obtener resultados que faciliten la estructuración de recomendaciones y soluciones para poder establecer un plan de gestión acorde a su realidad.

Common agency with informed principals

We analyze a common agency game under asymmetric information on the preferences of the non-cooperating principals in a public good context. Asymmetric information introduces incentive compatibility constraints which rationalize the requirement of truthfulness made in the earlier literature on common agency games under complete information. There exists a large class of differentiable equilibria which are ex post inefficient and exhibit free-riding. We then characterize some interim efficient equilibria. Finally, there exists also a unique equilibrium allocation which is robust to random perturbations. This focal equilibrium is characterized for any distribution of types.

Competitive equilibrium hyperinflation under rational expectations

This paper shows that a competitive equilibrium model, where a representative agent maximizes welfare, expectations are rational and markets are in equilibrium can account for several hyperinflation stylized facts. The theory is built by combining two hypotheses, namely, a fiscal crisis that requires printing money to finance an increasing public deficit and a predicted change in an unsustainable fiscal regime.

Some benefits of cyclical monetary policy

In this paper, we present a simple random-matching model of seasons, where di§erent seasons translate into di§erent propensities to consume and produce. We Önd that the cyclical creation and destruction of money is beneÖcial for welfare under a wide variety of circumstances. Our model of seasons can be interpreted as providing support for the creation of the Federal Reserve System, with its mandate of supplying an elastic currency for the nation.

Public debt sustainability and endogenous seignorage in Brazil: time-series evidence from 1947-92

Using national accounts data for the revenue-GDP and expenditure GDP ratios from 1947 to 1992, we examine two central issues in public finance. First, was the path of public debt sustainable during this period? Second, if debt is sustainable, how has the government historically balanced the budget after hocks to either revenues or expenditures? The results show that (i) public deficit is stationary (bounded asymptotic variance), with the budget in Brazil being balanced almost entirely through changes in taxes, regardless of the cause of the initial imbalance. Expenditures are weakly exogenous, but tax revenues are not;(ii) a rational Brazilian consumer can have a behavior consistent with Ricardian Equivalence (iii) seignorage revenues are critical to restore intertemporal budget equilibrium, since, when we exclude them from total revenues, debt is not sustainable in econometric tests.

Trade liberalization and the evolution of skill earnings differentials in Brazil

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The welfare cost of macroeconomic uncertainty in the post-war period

With standard assumptions on preferences and a fully-fledged econometric model we computed the welfare costs of macroeconomic uncertainty for post-war U.S. using the BeveridgeNelson decomposition. Welfare costs are about 0.9% per-capita consumption ($175.00) and marginal welfare costs are about twice as large.

Growth, increasing returns, and public infrastructure : time series evidence

Initial endogenous growth models emphasized the importance of external effects and increasing retums in explaining growth. Empirically, this hypothesis can be confumed if the coefficient of physical capital per hour is unity in the aggregate production function. Previous estimates using time series data rejected this hypothesis, although cross-country estimates did nol The problem lies with the techniques employed, which are unable to capture low-frequency movements of high-frequency data. Using cointegration, new time series evidence confum the theory and conform to cross-country evidence. The implied Solow residual, which takes into account externaI effects to aggregate capital, has its behavior analyzed. The hypothesis that it is explained by government expenditures on infrasttucture is confIrmed. This suggests a supply-side role for government affecting productivity.

Modelo de equilibrio geral para simulação de políticas de distribuição de renda e crescimento no Brasil

Apresenta os resultados de um projeto de pesquisa que tem como objetivo a construção de um Modelo Aplicado de Equilíbrio Geral para a Economia Brasileira ("Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Model"), voltado para a simulação de políticas públicas de crescimento e distribuição de renda. Após a caracterização e apresentação do modelo adotado ("Brasil CGE 95"), são realizadas treze simulações, onde comparam-se os resultados do ano base (95) com os obtidos em cada experimento, incluindo: indicadores macroeconômicos (PIB, Consumo, Déficit Público, Balança ComerciaL.), a remuneração anual dos dez fatores de produção do modelo (oito tipos de trabalho, dois tipos de capital ), a renda anual dos nove grupos de famílias do modelo, indicadores de pobreza/distribuição e indicadores variados como o emprego/produção setorial, taxa de câmbio real e o índice relativo de preços

Public debt sustainability and endogenous seigniorage in Brazil: time-series evidence from 1947-92: revised version

Using national accounts data for the revenue-GDP and expenditureGDP ratios from 1947 to 1992, we examine three central issues in public finance. First, was the path of public debt sustainable during this period? Second, if debt is sustainable, how has the government historically balanced the budget after shocks to either revenues or expenditures? Third, are expenditures exogenous? The results show that (i) public deficit is stationary (bounded asymptotic variance), with the budget in Brazil being balanced almost entirely through changes in taxes, regardless of the cause of the initial imbalance. Expenditures are weakly exogenous, but tax revenues are not; (ii) the behavior of a rational Brazilian consumer may be consistent with Ricardian Equivalence; (iii) seigniorage revenues are critical to restore intertemporal budget equilibrium, since, when we exclude them from total revenues, debt is not sustainable in econometric tests.