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This paper explains the causes and dynamics of pay-as-you-go social security financial crises and its impact on a country's economic performance. Its main hypothesis is there exists a self-reinforcing vicious circle between the social security system, the fertility rate and labor supply. We argue that changes in the pay-as-you-go social...
A common theme in the more recent Business Process BP literature is the search for approaches that allow formalizing domain knowledge into structures, patterns or frameworks, which can be reused to facilitate process redesign and support systems development. The objective of these structures explained in this paper is to simplify...
As the provider for coins, bank notes, and public documents in Chile for almost 260 years, Casa de Moneda de Chile is repositioning itself as an international producer and service provider. To successfully compete in the global marketplace, Casa de Moneda realized that it needed an ERP system to provide...
The paper presents the results of interviews with angel investors and experts around the risk capital industry in Chile. It focuses on common practices in seed-stage and/or angel investing and on how have those approaches been shaped by the country's culture. The paper describes how angel investing works in Chile:...
This paper traces the history of the Chilean reform, which began in 1982, and assesses its progress and its lessons. Chile was the first country in the world to implement a comprehensive reform of its electricity sector in the recent period. Among developing countries only Argentina has had a comparably...
This paper discusses about the security of supply that has been always a key factor in the development of the electric industry. Adequacy, quality of supply, stability, reliability and voltage collapse along with costs have been always carefully considered when planning the future of the electric power system. Since 1982,...
This paper on labor rights in Chile has been prepared pursuant to section 2102c (8) of the Trade Act of 2002 ("Trade Act") (Pub. L. No. 107-210). Section 2102c (8) provides that the President. In connection with any trade negotiations entered into under this Act, submit to the Committee of...
This article examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch$/US$ exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to regress the change in the exchange rate following a policy announcement on changes in market interest rates in response to the same announcement. U.S. monetary...
This paper identifies a rule that represents the optimal resolution of this trade-off, in terms of an intuitive modification to the static Lerner rule. It finds that the "effective" price elasticity depends on the discount rate used by the firm, on the rate of depreciation of the clientele through exit...
YAMANA GOLD INC. (TSX: YRI)(NYSE: AUY)(LSE: YAU) today announced its July 2008 monthly dividend of US$0.01 per share. Shareholders of record at the close of business on Thursday, July 31, 2008 will be entitled to receive payment of this dividend on Thursday, August 14, 2008. The dividend is an "eligible...
When Chase Hilgenbrinck bounced from Chile to Colorado to New England this spring, his eyes were already on another path. Not toward another Major League Soccer club or Europe. Toward the priesthood. MLS fans might have been startled to read the New England Revolution's announcement this...
Player to Priest When he was playing professional soccer in Chile, Chase Hilgenbrinck would seek comfort in the churches to satisfy his spiritual needs and remind him of childhood Sundays spent at Holy Trinity in his hometown of Bloomington, Ill. Even after moving back...
Methanex Corporation (TSX: MX)(NASDAQ: MEOH)(SANTIAGO: Methanex) announced today that the Government of Chile has awarded the Otway gas exploration block to a consortium that includes Wintershall Holding AG, Geopark Holdings Limited, and Methanex Corporation. Wintershall and GeoPark each own a 42% interest in the consortium and Methanex owns 16%. The...
Los Andes Copper Ltd. ("Los Andes", or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE: LA)(PINK SHEETS: LSANF) announces that it has received an interim, independent resource estimate for the Vizcachitas Project in Central Chile. The resource estimate includes the results from 62 diamond drill holes totaling 17,465 metres drilled by Los Andes over...
Amerigo Resources Ltd. (TSX: ARG)("Amerigo" or the "Company") announced today that during Q2-2008 Amerigo produced a total of 7.08 million pounds of copper and 147,508 pounds of molybdenum, compared to 7.80 million pounds of copper and 148,670 pounds of molybdenum in Q1-2008, and 9.91 million pounds of copper and 204,647...
Amerigo Resources Ltd. (TSX: ARG) ("Amerigo" or the "Company") announced today power costs for Q2-2008 were significantly lower than those for Q1-2008, mainly due to increased levels of rainfall and the resulting mobilization of additional hydro-electric energy sources by the Company's energy provider. The Company's average energy costs for Q2-2008...
South America's Leading Airline to Offer Service between Toronto and Santiago, Chile, starting in September MIAMI, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LAN Airlines expands the reach of its international network today by announcing new service to Santiago, Chile, from Toronto, Canada starting September 3rd, 2008. Once in Santiago,...
PARIS and NEW YORK, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Hi-Media Group announced today that Fotolog, one of the world's most-trafficked websites, ranks as the number one social network in Chile with over 2.8 million monthly unique visitors and the number two social network in Argentina with over 3.6 million unique...
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Distribucion y Servicio D&S S.A. (Latibex: XDYS) today announced the filing of its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2007 with the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC. In compliance with SEC regulations, the 2007 Form...
