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The first part of this paper compares the volume and scientific productivity of Business Administration and Economics in Chile with the rest of scientific disciplines at the national and international levels. Given that scientific productivity is heterogeneous among different disciplines, the comparisons utilize an indicator that measures their impact relative to the world in the same field. The second part of the paper compares the amounts of public resources allocated to research in the different fields and discusses their relative efficiency in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses prison privatization policies, in particular the empirical results of such policies and the debate surrounding institutional values. The article tackles the cases of Chile and the United States, both countries in which neoliberal economic policies are linked with the expansion of tough criminal policies. With regards to values, the analysis suggests that prison privatization promotes a tainted commercial alliance between the State and private sector, generates a deep conflict of legitimacy and fosters an unsustainable concept of the common good. In terms of results, prison privatization, in all of its forms, has failed to fulfill the promise of relieving States' budgets and providing decent incarceration conditions. Without empirical reasons to sustain prison privatization, the article concludes by highlighting the need of an ideological debate of the values implicated in this manifestation of neoliberal penality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the cost of electricity generation with a coal fired plant and a wind mill in Chile's Central Interconnected System. To the standard costs of coal generation (capital investment and fuel) we add local and global environmental externalities. The environmental cost of generating with coal is US$17/MWh, and the total cost is US$78/MWh. Wind generation is considerable more expensive, US$136/Mwh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We elaborate an Environmentally Extended Social Accounting Matrix for the Bío Bío Region. Initially, we apply the Cross Entropy method for updating a Social Accounting Matrix of this region from 1996 to 2006. This matrix provides the basis for a discussion of multipliers, which aims to identify the productive sectors of the region that would generate the most beneficial impacts on production, equity, poverty, and environmental pollution. The paper results are used to assess the priority sectors selected by the Bio-Bio's Productive Development Agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the redistributive effect of a system of social tariffs of water supply services, compared to the current direct subsidies from the government to low-income consumers. The goal is to determine social prices for non-deficit operation, using a mathematical model based on the theory of welfare economics. A scheme of differentiated tariffs according to income of consumers in the city of Arica, Chile, is evaluated as to the theoretical impact on the distribution of wealth of these consumers. From the results of this investigation, we concluded that social tariffs have a small advantage over direct subsidies in terms of redistribution, but undesirable side effects are produced, creating market distortions that could cancel out any significant redistribution of wealth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the structure of tariffs in civil aviation in Chile and the potential cross-subsidies that it generates. We estimate the cross-subsidies that currently exist in this transport networks and find that the current tariff structure generates a number of cross subsidies between airports. In particular, the airports of La Serena, Punta Arenas and Easter Island receive a cross subsidy from the rest of the network. We suggest that it may be beneficial to impose that airports in Chile must fund all their incremental costs. The intuition for this result, which follows from an old idea presented by Adam Smith, Coase and Vickrey, among others, is that the self-financing of airports, or at least their incremental costs, can be an effective mechanism to prevent over investment in infrastructure. In the light of this discussion and the results found in this study it would be advisable to review the structure of Aeronautical Tariffs in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Road crashes are a major source of transport externalities. Based on Jansson's road crashes model, this paper analyzes ways to internalize those externalities. Jansson's model is extended to analyze the effect of congestion and safety variables related to vehicle and infrastructure design on crash rates and severity. The model is then used to compute the cost of road crashes externalities in Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Ius et Praxis (07172877) is the property of Universidad de Talca and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)