Evaluación de las externalidades del comercio informal sobre los valores inmobiliarios: el caso de la Ladera Oeste, La Paz, Bolivia
- Autores: Jessica Fabiola Maidana Zeballos
- Directores de la Tesis: Carlos Marmolejo Duarte (dir. tes.)
- Lectura: En la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) ( España ) en 2016
- Idioma: español
- Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Josep Roca Cladera (presid.), Adriana Inés Olivares Gonzales (secret.), Alberto Alegret Burgués (voc.)
- Programa de doctorado: Programa Oficial de Doctorado en Gestión y Valoración Urbana y Arquitectónica
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- Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
- Resumen
In principle we can say that this thesis defines the informal trade as all commercial activity and/or service activities which settle in the streets (pavement and sidewalks) by will and arbitrary way they appropriate a space that was initially public. Today this informal trade has settled and consolidated in many areas of the west side of the La Paz city where the city hall has registered more than 8,500 merchants in 7 km2 approximately. In this context, the spirit that motivates this study is to explain the forces exerted for the informal trade through the occupation of public spaces, externalities, on the structure of property values. The hypothesis is based on the said above, as an empirical reading that believes the lnformal Trade exerts positive externalities for activities in commercial shops and negative externalities to the contiguous residential activities. The basis of theoretical and empirical analysis was carried out through environmental economics due to it has the flexibility of including the environmental as an object of study, concentrating its analysis on the abundance or peculiarity of a property. The properties and the commerce acquire an status as an economic property, but the second one characterized as informal settlement in the public space (in front of properties), produces what the economy termed as externality. Thus, have opted for the application of the Contingent Valuation Method (VC), method which is based on the application of a survey that measures the propensity of individuals to pay (OAP) or be compensated (OAC) depending on welfare that property generate. For the methodology application the survey has been written in two versions,named models, directed to two groups of population: residents and formal merchants (denominative that has been granted in the investigation to those economic activities that they find to the interior of a shop) tnat they rent or antichresis the space. The main results has showed that informal trade is detrimental to residents since,as a first option,are willing to pay 2.93 bolivianos (0.38 euros) as average per month for decreasing the amount of informal merchants that nowadays they settle on their street As a second option, in those streets where there are few informal merchants, they are willing to increase the rent house in 86.69 bolivianos (11.51 euros ) as average. Meantime the informal trade is beneficial for owners of commercial activities and offices since they are willing to pay a monthly rate of 1.85 bolivianos (0 .24 euros) by increasing the amount of informal merchants on their street. Furthermore they are willing to pay 0.39 bolivianos (0.05 euros) more expensive the shop rent as long as the shop is located on a street with more informal merchants. Another important finding for emphasize were the OAP wilh negalive values, i.e. 9% of residents and 26.7% of formal merchants, have stated that would pay less than they currently pay for the shop rent in a street with less and more informal merchants respectively, these are the outcomes of the second experiment, thus it is given a negative sign to the OAP and which is more important for methodological purposes has become a Willingness to be Compensated OAC. Finally we say that the hypotheses raised for this research have been affirmed since the informal commerce, with all its nuances, it is negatively valued by residential activities and positively valued by the economic activities of commerce and offices .
