Desarrollo e Instituciones.

En este artículo analizamos el rol mediador de la calidad de gestión de gobierno en la relación entre descentralización fiscal y disparidades regionales. Trabajos previos han argumentado que la descentralización fiscal cuenta con el potencial para reducir los diferenciales de ingresos entre regiones, aunque este efecto puede verse obstaculizado por la existencia de problemas de gobernabilidad asociados a las autoridades a nivel subnacional. Nuestra evidencia empírica basada en una muestra de departamentos (regiones) de Uruguay, durante el período 1990-2010, brinda cierto respaldo a esta idea. Los resultados obtenidos señalan que la descentralización fiscal promociona la convergencia regional, y que este efecto se ve potenciado en marcos que exhiben una mayor calidad de gestión de gobierno.

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Abstract: This study develops an agent-based model which seeks to analyse the innovation network of an economic sector that is intensive in highly trained human resources. This sector is composed by agents that face a restriction to the incorporation of new capital, and have the possibility to choose the proportion of its available capital devoted to each of the two available goods. These agents have a menu of three strategies to seek to innovate, and thus increase their productivity. The adjustment of these strategies is done endogenously and results in a process that determines the structure of the innovation network. The consideration of public policies in the system leads to the conclusion that the effect of policies depends heavily on the specific population to which they are directed. These results are manifested both in the performance of the system and in the network structure that emerges from the evolution of the model.

In this paper we explore the bidirectional relationship between intergovernmental transfers and regional income inequalities in Uruguay.

This paper analyzes international collaboration networks associated with invention and patenting in Latin America between 1970 and 2017. We use data from US patent records retrieved from the Patents View platform. We select patents with actors located in Latin American countries and create networks where nodes are countries and links represent collaboration among inventors and among patent owners located in different countries. We apply various social network analysis methods...