Browsing by Subject "Latin America"
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2002-12)This study tests for non-linearities in the behavior of US dollar real exchange rates of thirteen Latin American countries. For this purpose, logistic and exponential smooth transition regression models are applied to ...
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(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2001)Ten years of inflation targeting worldwide provide valuable lessons. Inflation targeters (ITers) have been very successfulin meeting their inflation targets (ITs). Industrial output sacrifice during inflation stabilization ...
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(SAGE, 2016)This article challenges the longstanding trend of much empirical material on ethical consumption originating from the global North, offering instead rich data on ethical consumption and practices in Chile and Brazil. Drawing ...
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(Elsevier, 2008)Chile has been cited as a successful case of development. Relatively fast economic growth over almost two decades has been accompanied by a significant reduction in absolute poverty. However, persistent economic growth and ...
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(2015)The purpose of this paper is to address the issue of the implementation of global and local brands in Latin America by drawing on contingency theory to develop and test hypotheses relating to how product category ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2015-02-11)Drawing on an empirical and comparative mixed methods analysis of Argentina and Chile, this article investigates arguments about the role of ‘inclusive’ versus ‘exclusive’ industrial relations systems in promoting gender ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2017)The factors that influence electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) in social networking sites (SNSs) in Latin American countries still need to be understood. This paper looks at factors included by prior research, as well as two ...
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(Emerald, 2020)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of IFRS mandatory adoption on accounting conservatism and to shed light on the drivers of such impact. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of listed firms ...
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)The long-run economic performance of Latin America has been unsatisfactory especially in comparison with other emerging economies, which have been able to “catch up” with developed countries. The historically low innovation ...
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(Elsevier Science publishes, 2007)This paper centers on the interpretation attributed by organizational members to the information systems (IS) alignment concept. Its objective is to study IS alignment in professional organizations. Specifically, it ...
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(De Gruyter, 2010)This is one of the journal's symposia entitled "The Return of Counter-Cyclical Policies."
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(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)Logo selection and modification is a common marketing practice; brand managers and other marketing executives will normally face these kinds of decisions. However, logo design and modification have been largely neglected ...
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(Universidad Autónoma Estado de México, 2016)Despite the central role of cultural distances in social sciences, literature is surprisingly scarce in quantitatively measuring and graphically representing this concept in Latin America. This study addresses this issue ...
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(Pontificia Univ. Católica Chile, 2020)Privately-led real estate urbanization in Chile is characterized by the highest land use. While private developers internalize the positive effects generated by public amenities, the increased land value, which is generated ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Historically, the development literature concerned with Latin American labour markets has focused on job numbers and productivity. But given the persistence of large shares of informal and now otherwise precarious ...
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(Elsevier, 1998)The privatization of Chile's public utilities has led to substantial new investment and improvements in internal efficiency. However, the limited information available to regulators, combined with their insufficient technical ...
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(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018-07)Hyman Minsky's financial instability hypothesis (FIH) argues that as part of the normal functioning of capitalist economies robust financial structures tend to evolve into highly leveraged fragile financial structures. The ...
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(Elsevier, 2003)The persistence of growth and its equity and environmental effects heavily depend on the composition of asset investments. Physical, human, and natural capital are the key assets behind the development process. Market ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2018)This cross-national study empirically tests a model that explains the ways in which trust and commitment lead to loyalty in the organization-donor relationship. This research fills a gap in the literature by contrasting ...
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(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022)One of the most complex policy issues that developing countries will face as a result of the employment crisis caused by the Covid crisis is the question of how they can better protect the unemployed. However, the analysis ...