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Environmental Policy, Mergers and Environmental R&D with Spillovers
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2020-08-11)
This project lies at the frontier between environmental economics and industrial organization. We use a duopoly setting of a three-stage game; in the first stage, the government chooses an emission tax and aims for maximizing ...
Development of Regional Economics Studies in Peru: Contributions and Criticisms
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2020-08-11)
This research presents an overview of the evolution of regional economic studies in Peru. After a brief introduction, the document presents a summary of the different conceptions of space in Regional Economics through time. ...
Human Capital Constraints, Spatial Dependence, and Regionalization in Bolivia: A Spatial Clustering Approach
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-05-06)
Using a novel dataset, this article studies the spatial distribution of human capital constraints across 339 municipalities in Bolivia. In particular, five human capital constraints are evaluated: chronic malnutrition in ...
Spatial Diffusion of Civil Liberty
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-05-06)
This paper studies the existence of spatial diffusion of civil liberty among neighboring countries. For that purpose, we first combine different exploratory space-time data analysis approaches to find that this phenomenon ...
Empirical Identification of Intra-Urban Subcentralities: A New Methodological Approach with an Application for a Developing Country
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-05-06)
We present a new empirical approach for identifying sub-centers within urban areas and apply it to the São Paulo metropolitan area (SPMA). We use geographically weighted regressions (GWR) to overcome the limitations presented ...
The Unofficial Vicereine of Río de la Plata: a Trans-Imperial Mediator in the Global War, 1797–1810
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2020-02-11)
This article traces the story of one of the most significant unofficial mediators in the context of the imperial reconfiguration of the Atlantic World between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The protagonist was a ...
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(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-05-06)
Conditional vs Unconditional Quantile Regression Models: A Guide to Practitioners
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-12-31)
This paper analyzes two econometric tools that are used to evaluate distributional effects, conditional quantile regression (CQR) and unconditional quantile regression (UQR). Our main objective is to shed light on the ...
Where Are the Poor Located? A Spatial Heterogeneity Analysis of Monetary Poverty in Peru
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2021-05-06)
Measuring poverty is a first step to the design of effective public policies, however, it is also essential to know where the poor are located. The main objective of this research is to evaluate the spatial heterogeneity ...
A Short Term Forecasting Model for the Spanish GDP and its Demand Components
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2020-03-10)
This paper proposes a new version of the Spain-STING (Spain, Short-Term INdicator of Growth), a dynamic factor model used by the Banco de España for the short-term forecasting of the Spanish economy. The extended and revised ...