Over the past two decades, we have seen an impressive expansion of quantitative work in comparative politics. The expanding edifice of quantitative cross-national political research, however, rests upon incomplete as well as insecure foundations of cross-national data. Despite the incessant…

Dada una muestra aleatoria generada por una mezcla de distribuciones, el objetivo del análisis de conglomerados es partir la muestra en grupos homogéneos en relación a las poblaciones que los han generado. Algoritmos como kmeans y mclust resuelven el problema…

This work examines a crucial part of modern presidential campaigning in Mexico: candidate appearances in municipalities. It also traces the changes in presidential campaigning over the past 30 years and finds that modern campaigning does not just involve mass media…

This article aims at identifying and characterizing the different configurations of the relevant factors related to administrative procedures, in order to learn about their behavior, and so about decision-making processes. Delays in administrative circuit concretion, users dissatisfaction and lack of…

Este trabajo presenta una estimación de sistemas incompletos de demanda utilizando datos de encuestas de hogares para Argentina, Bolivia y Paraguay. El enfoque empírico consiste en la estimación de un sistema con especificación LinQuad corregido por sesgo de selección y…

We use data from a Maryland farm survey and a multivariate switching regression model with endogenous switching to investigate the effects of information asymmetries on conservation cost sharing contracts. Our estimations indicate that the role that asymmetries of information play…

How are committee leaders in legislatures chosen absent seniority norms? This paper argues that the prior political experience of legislators can serve as cues to caucus leaders to reduce adverse selection in a legislature where seniority cannot be the basis…

Procampo was launched in 1994 to help the transition from low productivity
activities to high productivity activities, among other policy objectives. We
investigate the effects of Procampo on migration flows from Mexico to third
countries (mainly the US), and the…

En esta tesis se estudian diferentes aspectos del procesado de imágenes e información en cavidades ópticas no lineales. En la primer parte se estudia el uso de una cavidad de Tipo II de Generación de Segundo Harmónico para realizar operaciones…

This doctoral thesis
deals with management games as a method to be employed
in empirical research on strategic ma
nagement. We believe that management
games, as a kind of laboratory experiment
, are underestimated in management in
contrast to other…