Effective government leadership demands skills in planning, budgeting, and personnel management, areas where business experience may be valuable. Business owners could apply their management skills in public administration to optimize resources, enhance public service delivery, or promote private sector growth. However, these skills may not translate to the public sector, where different rules prevail, and a lack of political expertise could ultimately undermine the delivery of public services. This paper studies the impact of electing business owners as mayors in Brazilian municipalities.

El Informe Nacional de Competitividad (INC) 2024-2025 nos invita a construir juntos una visión de futuro: ¿cuáles son las tendencias globales en las que se enmarcan nuestras oportunidades de desarrollo?, ¿qué tenemos que hacer para transformarnos y aprovecharlas?, ¿cuál es el país que construiremos con este esfuerzo conjunto? En el INC 2024-2025 identificamos tres macrotendencias —cambio demográfico, cambio tecnológico y cambio climático— que nos motivan a diseñar acciones y estrategias para materializar dicha visión compartida.

Terminations of health plans are common in managed care systems around the world. This paper examines how to reassign consumers to incumbent insurers after such terminations. We propose an equilibrium model of competition in which insurers can respond to the reassignment rules through their provider networks. The setting is Colombia where the largest health insurer was terminated by the government in December 2015 and where insurers compete mainly on provider network breadth.