Browsing Volumen 42 Número 83 (2019) by Title

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    • Breaks, Trends and the Attribution of Climate Change: A Time-Series Analysis 

      Estrada, Francisco; Perron, Pierre (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2019-09-16)
      Climate change detection and attribution have been the subject of intense research and debate over at least four decades. However, direct attribution of climate change to anthropogenic activities using observed climate and ...

    • Can Capital-Skill Complementarity Explain the Rising Skill Premium in Developing Countries? Evidence from Peru in the 1990s 

      Mazumdar (†), Joy; Quispe-Agnoli, Myriam (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2019-09-16)
      The unsettled discussion continues about the factors behind the increase in the relative wages of skilled workers in developing countries. Using data from Peru for the years 1994 to 2000, we analyze the determinants of ...

    • Do Market Prices Reflect Real Scarcity? Theories and Facts 

      Figueroa, Adolfo (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2019-09-16)
      Do market relative prices reflect real scarcity of resources? If this were so, market prices would provide society with the correct signals about real scarcities. Economics—the science of scarcity— has different answers ...

    • Gender Differences in Cognitive Abilities Among the Elderly Poor of Peru 

      Novella, Rafael; Olivera, Javier (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2019-09-16)
      We study gender differences on cognitive functioning among older adults living in poverty. The data come from the Survey of Health and Wellbeing of the Elderly (ESBAM) which is the baseline survey to evaluate the Peru’s ...

    • Presentation 

      Rodriguez, Gabriel (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2019-09-16)

    • Threshold Stochastic Volatility Models with Heavy Tails: A Bayesian Approach 

      Abanto-Valle, Carlos A.; Garrafa-Aragón, Hernán B. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo EditorialPE, 2019-09-16)
      This paper extends the threshold stochastic volatility (THSV) model specification proposed in So et al. (2002) and Chen et al. (2008) by incorporating thick-tails in the mean equation innovation using the scale mixture of ...