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Do female Nicrophorus vespilloides reduce direct costs by choosing males that mate less frequently? (Royal Soc, 2016)Sexual conflict occurs when selection to maximize fitness in one sex does so at the expense of the other sex. In the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides, repeated mating provides assurance of paternity at a direct cost ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2016)Recent evidence has pointed out the existence of an after crisis global liquidity in which bond issuances of non-financial corporations has kept growing. This evidence also suggests that firms take advantage of cheaper ...
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(MDPI, 2021)A clear gap with respect to the potential biological properties of wheat flavonoids exists in the available literature. This information is crucial for breeding programs aiming to produce new varieties presenting improved ...
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(2006)Pollination syndromes lead to questions concerning the role of different suites of pollinators on the pollination success of plants. Escallonia myrtoidea exhibits floral traits associated with pollination by diurnal ...
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(Springer, 2020)Investors, regulators, and academics question the usefulness of going concern opinions (GCOs). We assess whether GCOs provide incremental information, relative to other predictors of corporate default. Our measure of ...
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(Springer, 2012-02)One promising public health intervention for promoting physical activity is the Ciclovia program. The Ciclovia is a regular multisectorial community-based program in which streets are temporarily closed for motorized ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2019)Labor markets become more efficient in theory if job seekers direct their search. Using online job board data, we show that high-wage ads attract more applicants as in directed search models. Due to distinctive data features, ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)This paper examines the relation between firm investment ratios and institutional blockholders for a sample of 6,300 publicly traded firms in 16 large emerging markets for the 2004–2016 period. Results show that independent, ...
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(Elsevier, 2018)This paper examines the relationship between firm investment ratios and institutional blockholders for a sample of 6300 publicly traded firms in 16 large emerging markets for the 2004–2016 period. Results show that ...
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(2020)We investigate the previously unexplored herding behaviour of investors in option markets, by examining equity option contracts traded in the US between 1996 and 2012. We document strong herding effects in option trading ...
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(Taylor and Francis Ltd.michael.wagreich@univie.ac.at, 2020)
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2019)In developing countries, the penetration of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) is still high, and hence the entry of Natural Gas (NG) networks coexists with the use of LPG by an important fraction of households. Thus, a ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-06)Using a randomized controlled trial of a large-scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program in Chile, we assess the effectiveness of business training and asset transfers to the poor. Using survey and monthly ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade linkages on bilateral real exchange rate volatility by examining a particular channel —the extent of the effects of differences on import intensities (GDP’s share ...
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(Pan American Health Organization, 1997)No published information is currently available about formal 'do not resuscitate' (DNR) orders for pediatric patients in developing countries, even though there has been extensive discussion of how to determine who should ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2021)El objetivo de esta tesis es avanzar en el entendimiento de las implicancia del efecto pares, en particular comprobar si existe el efecto pares en la industria de administración de fondos de pensiones en Chile para luego, ...
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(Elsevier, 2014)The present study examined people’s expectations of how incidental emotions could shape others’ reciprocity in trusting situations, whether these expectations affect people’s own behavior, and how accurate these expectations ...
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(Universidad de Concepcion, 2011)Pollinators are able to discriminate among different floral phenotypes. Thus, flowers more attractive to pollinators usually receive more visits to their reproductive structures. However, this effect of attraction does not ...
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(BLACKWELL, 2006-11)Correlation among phenotypic traits may be explained by correlational selection, the simultaneous selection of more than one trait, or by genetic and/or developmental factors. In Escallonia myrtoidea, a tree with scented ...
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Do psychological distress and somatization contribute to misattribution of asthma? A Chilean study (2007)Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the association between asthma and distress by whether symptoms of asthma present alone or are accompanied by atopy or bronchial reactivity to methacholine [bronchial ...
