Browsing by Title Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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(Wiley, 2017)In July 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40years. Although the health effects of the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity ...
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(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017)In July 2009, the World Health Organization declared the first flu pandemic in nearly 40 years. Although the health effectsof the pandemic have been studied, there is little research examining the labor productivity consequences. ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)This paper studies the effect of the integration of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN) on the academic achievement of their peers without SEN. This achievement is measured using performance in standardized reading ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Bicameral university governance models often include a university senate coexisting in parallel to executive bodies. This paper analyses the functioning and performance of the tripartite ‘participative’ Senate of the ...
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(Wiley, 2020)We incorporate ambiguity (Knightian uncertainty) into a classic model of entrepreneurship to analyze, among other things, its effects on the optimal level of business startups, the relation between total assets and the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2020)Labor unions is a widely studied topic in economics. One less studied but related topic is labor strikes, the most notorious manifestation of labor conflict and unrest. The definition may not be unique depending on the ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)We investigate the determinants of open skies agreements among Latin-American countries, focusing on the impact of having a dominant airline on the willingness of countries to sign agreements with others. We find that, ...
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(American Economic Association, 2018)We investigate the impact of a program providing asset transfers and business training to low income individuals in Chile, and asked whether a larger asset transfer would magnify the program's impact. We randomly assigned ...
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(Biomed Central Ltd., 2017)Neoliberal reforms lead to deep changes in healthcare systems around the world, on account of their emphasis on free market rather than the right to health. People with disabilities can be particularly disadvantaged by ...
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(Routledge, 2018)This article examines the effects of family control and pyramidal ownership on firms’ capital structure decisions. After studying a sample of listed family and nonfamily firms in Chile, we find that families take a ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2019-12)For countries concerned about equity and access to higher education, providing support services for academically underprepared students is key to increase their probabilities of success. Remedial courses provide opportunities ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2013)Purpose - This study contributes a multidimensional measure of service quality impacting on the trust and satisfaction of customers using internet banking. Design/methodology/approach - Unlike previous studies reporting on ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)The 2010 Chilean earthquake and tsunami were among the strongest in the world history. The exogeneity of these natural disasters provides the opportunity to test stock price reactions. Using a sample of 42 firms listed ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes is controversial. There are several studies for developed countries with mixed results, but there is a lack of evidence for developing countries. We have access to ...
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017-07)The main contribution of this paper is to discuss the implications of a ‘soft’ budget constraint on optimal transit fares and subsidies. We find that the e↵ect of productive ine"ciencies on optimal fares and subsidy levels ...
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(Inter-American Development Bank, 2009)This paper surveys overall export growth in Chile and focuses on three case studies of the emergence of successful export activities in Chile: wine, pork and blueberries. Each case study discusses how companies, associations, ...
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(Wiley, 2020)Turnover is not only the ending of an employment relationship, it is also the potential beginning of a new reality for those who remain in the organization. The impact of voluntary and involuntary turnover events on ...
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(SAGE, 2019)This article investigates the profound ambiguity of the state in the organization of contemporary business–society relations. On the one hand, there has been a decisive shift from government to governance, encouraging ...
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The environment as a factor of production: the effects of economic growth and trade liberalization (Elsevier, 1994)Economic growth and trade liberalization decrease the degradation of natural resources if and only if producers internalize their stock feedback effects on production. For environmental factors without stock effects on ...
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(MDPI, 2021)We studied the trends of height-for-age (HAZ) Z scores by socioeconomic status (SES) groups of Chilean boys and girls aged 5–18 born between 1877 and 2001, by performing a metaanalysis of 53 studies reporting height-for-age ...
