El seminario de problemas : un espacio para la alfabetización en resolución de problemas.

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­Qué viene el euro!

Presentación de un recurso para que los alumnos, trabajando en grupo, se inicien en el manejo del euro. Se simulan situaciones reales a las que pronto tendrán que hacer frente. Además, se tratan contenidos matemáticos como porcentajes, números primos, redondeos, operaciones combinadas, números negativos o decimales, adecuables a los distintos niveles educativos. A estos objetivos se pretende llegar con el atractivo formato del juego Euromes..

Resolució de problemes.'Resolución de problemas'.

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Loan sales under asymmetric information

Loans are illiquid assets that can be sold in a secondary market even that buyers have no certainty about their quality. I study a model in which a lender has access to new investment opportunities when all her assets are illiquid. To raise funds, the lender may either borrow using her assets as collateral, or she can sell them in a secondary market. Given asymmetric information about assets quality, the lender cannot recover the total value of her assets. There is then a role for the government to correct the information problem using fiscal tools.

Poverty impacts of agricultural policy adjustments in an opening economy: the case of Colombia

We aim to contribute to the assessment of poverty impacts on the rural sector arising from agricultural policy adjustments in Colombia. For this we use an agriculture specialized static CGE model, jointly (sequentially) with a microsimulation model that allows for effective job relocation. Results indicate that the sectoral impact of the program implemented tends to be small and has considerable variability across crops. They also show that the highest impacts come from the irrigation and land improvements component of the program. Lastly, although it reduces poverty, poverty impacts are small and tend to concentrate in rural households toward the middle of the income distribution ladder.

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