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fiesta.pdf

To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault Weapons Ban exerted a spillover on gun supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state level ban. We find first that Mexican municipios located closer to the non-California border states experienced differential increases…

When economists comment on holiday gift-giving, it is usually to condone the healthy effect of spending on the macroeconomy. However, an important feature of gift-giving is that consumption choices are made by someone other than the final consumer. A pontentially important microeconomic aspect of gift-giving is that gifts may be mismatched with the recipients´ preferences. This paper gives estimates of the deadweight loss of holiday gift-giving based on surveys given to Yale undergraduates.…

Behavorial economics tell us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavoir and decision-making. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e. can societies experience mood states that affect their collective decision making? By extension is the public mood correlate or even predective of economic indicators? Here we investigate whether measumerents of collective mood states derived from large-scale Twitter feeds are correlated to the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average…

This paper analyses the state of the art of the different issues regarding crime and ciminality and finds out that such issues originate from individual features. This paper also considers that the possibilities individuals have within society may be beneficial or conductive to crime and criminality given the personal and labor limitations they may find. This paper finally suggests the idea that criminality may be a way of life for those individuals who take advantage of resources and…

HousingPricesAndMaritalStability.pdf

"We investigate the effect of house price changes on MSA-level divorce rates using data for 1991-2010 from the Current Population Survey and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Our findings suggest that changing house prices significantly affect divorce rates, and that these effects are assymmetric with respect to housing gains versus losses.…

importancia_economica_de_las_caracteristicas.pdf

"This paper tries to quantify economically the importance of five phonetic characteristics (seseo, yeismo, /s/-aspiration, rehilamiento, and /x/-aspiration) whose presence or absence allows to distinguish among ten regional varieties of Spanish. To do that we perform an analysis of the extension of those…

El objetivo de este artículo de divulgación es evaluar, mediante sencillos instrumentos de la economía, específicamente con curvas de oferta y demanda, la estrategia seguida por el gobierno federal en su lucha contra el tráfico de drogas ilegales y contribuir con ello al debate sobre cómo hacer frente al problema del narcotráfico de manera más eficiente. …

This paper concentrates on both the positive and normative effects of punishments that enforce laws to make production and consumption of particular goods illegal, with illegal drugs as the mainexample. Optimal public expenditures on apprehension and conviction of illegal suppliers obviously depend on the extent of the difference between the social and private value of consumption of illegal goods, but they also depend crucially on the elasticity of demand for these goods. In particular,…

 En este documento de investigación se desarrolla y estima un modelo de ecuaciones simultáneas que explica la criminalidad en Chile a nivel regional en el periodo 1988 – 2000 para varias categorías de delitos. El modelo innova en abordar diversos problemas de endogeneidad presentes en la determinación del crimen.…

Se presenta un juego en dos etapas. El gobierno, primer jugador, controla la actividad criminal decidiendo dos variables: monto del castigo al criminal sorprendido y la probabilidad de ser castigado al cometer un delito. El segundo jugador es el criminal quien maximiza su utilidad repartiendo su tiempo laboral en actividades criminales y actividades legales dado el entorno impuesto por el gobierno. Presentamos evidencia de la incidencia criminal en México y la…

This paper uses the model Chiappori-Levitt- Groseclose (2002) to test for mixed-strategy Nash equilibria in a game between a kicker and a goalkeeper, in a situation of a soccer penalty kick. The main contribution of this paper is to develop an alternative testing methodology, based on the use of a simultaneous-equation regression approach that directly tests the equilibrium conditions. Using the same date than Chiappori, Levitt and Groseclose we find similar results than them, and we are…

This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by explotaing variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo -the network that a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country- acroos municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980, 1991) and controlling for area fixed effects and for time-varying characteristics, the paper finds the share of  woman who are separated or divorced increases significantly after the Globo signal…

economic_imperialism.pdf

"Economics is not only a social science, it is a genuine science. Like the physical sciences, economics uses a methodology that produces refutable implications and tests these implications using solid statistical techniques.(...)These ingredients have allowed economics to invade intellectual territory that was previously deemed to be outside the…

BrunoFrey_01.pdf   

"El arte y la cultura están, en principio, sujetos a la escasez, es decir, no son bienes libres; proporcionan «utilidad» a los individuos que las demandan, y necesitan recursos para su creación. Tan pronto como es posible observar expresiones de preferencias en los individuos, –el deseo de pagar por una entrada de teatro, el pintar un cuadro para su venta o…

In the present paper we will study the factors that influence of the demand of formation in higher education in the Universidad Cristobal Colón in Veracruz, México. We will use a logit binomial model that allows us to identify the implied variables in such decision rendering special attention to which human capital theory indicates as the fundamental issues in educative investment.

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