Alberto Chong

University of Ottawa

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2292 Edwin Crescent

Ottawa, Ontario K2C 1H7

Canada

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The Truth About Privatization in Latin America

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 11 Nov 2003
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and SKEMA Business School
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The Truth About Privatization in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 191
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 19 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
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Determinants of Current Account Deficits in Developing Countries

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Norman Loayza, Alberto Chong and César A. Calderón
World Bank - Research Department, University of Ottawa and Central Bank of Chile
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On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries

IDB Working Paper No. 444
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mauricio Olivera
University of Ottawa and George Washington University
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Privatization and Labor Force Restructuring Around the World

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Jan 2003
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and SKEMA Business School
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Privatization and Labor Force Restructuring Around the World

IDB Working Paper No. 407
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
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Money Laundering and its Regulation

IDB Working Paper No. 493
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
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Corporate Governance in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 494
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
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Citation 136

Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

IDB Working Paper No. 533
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Eliana La Ferrara, Alberto Chong and Suzanne Duryea
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Ottawa and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Downloads 336 (153,786)
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Soap Operas and Fertility: Evidence from Brazil

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6785
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Jun 2008
Alberto Chong, Suzanne Duryea and Eliana La Ferrara
University of Ottawa, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
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development, fertility, television

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Citation 32

Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid? The Donors' Perspective

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1833
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Nov 2006
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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foreign aid, donors, perceptions, development, corruption

Who's Afraid of Foreign Aid? The Donors' Perspective

IDB Working Paper No. 463
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Foreign Aid, Income Inequality, and Poverty

IDB Working Paper No. 455
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Ma. Cecilia Calderón and Alberto Chong
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Ottawa
Downloads 280 (187,455)
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Institutional Quality and Fiscal Transparency

IDB Working Paper No. 36
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Nicolo Andreula, Alberto Chong and Jorge B. Guillen
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Ottawa and UESAN
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Citation 56

Inequality and Institutions

IDB Working Paper No. 419
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Inequality and Institutions

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Jan 2005
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Institutions, inequality, governance, causality

Inequality and Institutions

Posted: 09 Dec 2004
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics

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Institutions, inequality, governance, causality

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Informality and Productivity in the Labor Market: Peru 1986 - 2001

IDB Working Paper No. 511
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
University of Ottawa, Syracuse University - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Discrimination in Latin America: An Elephant in the Room?

IDB Working Paper No. 516
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo
University of Ottawa and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Privatization in Mexico

IDB Working Paper No. 425
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
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Corporate Governance and Firm Value in Mexico

IDB Working Paper No. 470
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes
University of Ottawa and Dongeui University
Downloads 190 (271,491)
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Does the Quality of Training Programs Matter? Evidence from Bidding Processes Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2202
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Alberto Chong and José Galdo
University of Ottawa and Syracuse University - Department of Economics
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training, quality, earnings, bidding, matching methods

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Structure and Development of Financial Institutions and Links with Trust: Cross-Country Evidence

IDB Working Paper No. 373
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Inter-American Development Bank, University of Ottawa and Central Bank of Chile
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Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 94, Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 1005
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Feb 2012
University of Ottawa, Yale University, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Princeton University
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Corruption, Accountability, Elections, Voting, Information

Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w17679
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
University of Ottawa, Yale University, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Princeton University
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Looking Beyond the Incumbent: The Effects of Exposing Corruption on Electoral Outcomes

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8790
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jan 2012
University of Ottawa, Yale University, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Princeton University
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Accountability, Corruption, Elections, Information, Voting

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Inequality, Institutions, and Informality

IDB Working Paper No. 427
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Barriers to Exit

Economics Letters Vol. 99, pp. 93–97, 2008
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2010
Alberto Chong and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta
University of Ottawa and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
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International Trade, Passport Costs, Barriers to Exit, Development, Labor

Barriers to Exit

IDB Working Paper No. 477
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta
University of Ottawa and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
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Privatized Firms, Rule of Law and Labor Outcomes in Emerging Markets

Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 45, No. 9, 1513–1525, October 2009
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2010
Gianmarco León-Ciliotta and Alberto Chong
Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE and University of Ottawa
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Privatization, Labor, Firms, Institutions, Public Sector, Cross-Country

Privatized Firms, Rule of Law and Labor Outcomes in Emerging Markets

IDB Working Paper No. 510
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta
University of Ottawa and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
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Regulatory Protective Measures and Risky Behavior: Should We Be Saved from Ourselves?

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Mar 2014
Alberto Chong and Pascual Restrepo
University of Ottawa and Boston University - Department of Economics
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Peltzman Effect, Compensating Behavior, Regulation, Protection, Ice Hockey

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Social Media Instruments and the Promotion of Financial Inclusion in Peruvian Rural Areas

Partnership for Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2017-15
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 May 2018 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2018
Alberto Chong and Martin Valdivia
University of Ottawa and Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
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Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries

IDB Working Paper No. 426
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Central Bank of Chile, University of Ottawa and Central Bank of Chile
Downloads 100 (450,034)
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Bundling Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Alberto Chong, Jesko Hentschel and Jaime Saavedra
University of Ottawa, World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and GRADE
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Television and Divorce: Evidence from Brazilian Novelas

IDB Working Paper No. 548
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Eliana La Ferrara
University of Ottawa and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Inequality, Democracy, Institutional Quality, and Fiscal Redistribution

IDB Working Paper No. 522
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth

IMF Working Paper No. 00/161
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Feb 2006
Alberto Chong and Luisa Zanforlin
University of Ottawa and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department
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Growth Assimilation Technology Exports Imitation Dynamic Panel Data

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Trade Intensity and Business Cycle Synchronization: Are Developing Countries Any Different?

IDB Working Paper No. 400
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
César A. Calderón, Alberto Chong and Ernesto Stein
Central Bank of Chile, University of Ottawa and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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(Ineffective) Messages to Encourage Recycling: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Peru

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6548
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
University of Ottawa, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and Dartmouth College
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Water and Industry, Environmental Economics & Policies, Housing & Human Habitats, Knowledge for Development, E-Business

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Institutional Enforcement, Labor Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance

Emerging Markets Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2007, Inter-American Development Bank Working Paper No. 589
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Jan 2007
World Bank, University of Ottawa and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
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Institutions, Enforcement, Labor Rigidities, Growth, GMM-IV

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Institutional Quality and Government Efficiency

IDB Working Paper No. 508
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Technology and Epidemics

IMF Working Paper No. 99/125
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Feb 2006
Alberto Chong and Luisa Zanforlin
University of Ottawa and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department
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growth epidemics logistic technology transfer machinery and equipment

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Education and Democratic Preferences

IDB Working Paper No. 570
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve?

IDB Working Paper No. 374
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong
University of Ottawa
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Are African Current Account Deficits Different? Stylized Facts, Transitory Shocks, and Decomposition Analysis

IMF Working Paper No. 01/4
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Jan 2006
Central Bank of Chile, University of Ottawa and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department
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Current Account, Dynamic Panel Data Models, Decomposition Analysis

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Policy Volatility and Growth

IDB Working Paper No. 482
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Letter Grading Government Efficiency

NBER Working Paper No. w18268
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2023
University of Ottawa, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru

IDB Working Paper No. 446
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
University of Ottawa, Michigan State University - Economics and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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On the Determinants and Effects of Political Influence

IDB Working Paper No. 518
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Corporate Governance and Private Capital Flows to Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 404
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
University of Ottawa, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Research Department, University of Chile and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) - Department of Economics
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Do Welfare Programs Damage Interpersonal Trust? Experimental Evidence from Representative Samples for Four Latin American Cities

IDB Working Paper No. 559
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong, Hugo Ñopo and Vanessa Ríos
University of Ottawa, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Information Technologies and Provision of National Identification Cards by the Bolivian Police: Evidence from Two Randomized Natural Field Experiments

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7975
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Mar 2014
University of Ottawa, Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD) and World Bank
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public service delivery, technologies, Bolivia, natural experiment

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Rent Seeking and Democracy in Latin America: What Drives What?

IDB Working Paper No. 454
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
César A. Calderón and Alberto Chong
Central Bank of Chile and University of Ottawa
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Who Needs Strong Leaders?

IDB Working Paper No. 529
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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To What Extent Do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments on Social Exclusion in Six Latin American Countries

IDB Working Paper No. 535
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Hugo Ñopo
University of Ottawa and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
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Volume and Quality of Infrastructure and the Distribution of Income: An Empirical Investigation

IDB Working Paper No. 377
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and César A. Calderón
University of Ottawa and Central Bank of Chile
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Is it Possible to Speak English Without Thinking American? On Globalization and the Determinants of Cultural Assimilation

IDB Working Paper No. 464
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong
University of Ottawa
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Inward-Looking Policies, Institutions, Autocrats, and Economic Growth in Latin America: An Empirical Exploration

IDB Working Paper No. 375
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Luisa Zanforlin
University of Ottawa and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department
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Is the World Flat? Or Do Countries Still Matter?

IDB Working Paper No. 488
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Redistributional Preferences and Imposed Institutions

IDB Working Paper No. 483
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance

IDB Working Paper No. 492
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Central Bank of Chile, University of Ottawa and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
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Do Information Technologies Improve Teenagers’ Sexual Education? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Colombia

NBER Working Paper No. w18776
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2023
University of Ottawa, Associate professoraffiliation not provided to SSRN, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
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Stated Social Behavior and Revealed Actions: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries Using Representative Samples

IDB Working Paper No. 534
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Hugo Ñopo and Alberto Chong
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and University of Ottawa
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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

IDB Working Paper No. 411
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
University of Ottawa, World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Does it Matter How People Speak?

IDB Working Paper No. 489
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong
University of Ottawa
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Should State-Owned Firms Change CEOS Before Privatization? The Case of the Telecommunications Industry

IDB Working Paper No. 403
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Virgilio Galdo
University of Ottawa and Michigan State University - Economics
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Do Democracies Breed Rent-Seeking Behavior?

IDB Working Paper No. 445
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
César A. Calderón and Alberto Chong
Central Bank of Chile and University of Ottawa
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Streamlining and Privatization Prices in the Telecommunications Industry

IDB Working Paper No. 402
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Virgilio Galdo
University of Ottawa and Michigan State University - Economics
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Inequality and Informality

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5545
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Jun 2006
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Informal sector, shadow economy, inequality, institutional quality

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The Internet and the Ability to Innovate in Latin America

IDB Working Paper No. 389
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Alejandro Micco
University of Ottawa and University of Chile
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Political Environment and Privatization Prices

IDB Working Paper No. 456
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and Alejandro Riaño
University of Ottawa and University of Nottingham
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Imposed Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5922
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Dec 2006
Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Institutions, markets versus state, redistributional preferences

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On Foreign Participation and Hiring Patterns after Privatization

IDB Working Paper No. 457
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Virgilio Galdo and Alberto Chong
Michigan State University - Economics and University of Ottawa
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Estimating Income Elasticity of Government Expenditures: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8563
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Sep 2011
Markus Bruckner, Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
University of Adelaide, University of Ottawa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics
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Wagner law

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Training Quality and Earnings: The Effects of Competition on the Provision of Public-Sponsored Training Programs

IDB Working Paper No. 462
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Alberto Chong and José Galdo
University of Ottawa and Syracuse University - Department of Economics

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On Non-Linearities between Exports of Manufactures and Economic Growth

Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 279-311, November 2001
Posted: 02 Jul 2004
Central Bank of Chile, University of Ottawa and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department

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Growth, exports, dynamic panel data, endogeneity

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Causality and Feedback between Institutional Measures and Economic Growth

Posted: 20 Sep 2000
Alberto Chong and C. Calderon
University of Ottawa and University of Rochester - Department of Economics

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