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    • Torres, Juan Pablo; Jara Bertín, Mauricio; López Iturriaga, Félix (Elsevier, 2017)
      We analyze the effect of pyramidal ownership levels on the performance of Chilean firms by considering the impact of business groups. Using an unbalanced panel of 1018 firm-year observations from 88 quoted firms for the ...
    • Zambrano, Fabián; Concha, Pablo; Ramis, Francisco; Neriz Jara, Liliana; Bull, María; Veloz, Patricio; Carvajal, Jaime (IEEE, 2017)
      This paper uses agent based simulation to assess the effect of redesigning the points of access to a major public hospital complex in Chile, where nearly 15,000 people will pass through daily. The study is carried out by ...
    • Loyola Fuentes, Gino (Springer, 2017)
      A two-period ultimatum bargaining game is developed in which parties experience an envy-type externality coming from the surplus captured by their counterparts. Our assumptions on envy levels and outside opportunities allow ...
    • Alfaro García, Víctor; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2017)
      We present the induced generalized ordered weighted logarithmic aggregation (IGOWLA) operator. It is an extension of the generalized ordered weighted logarithmic aggregation (GOWLA) operator. The IGOWLA operator uses ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Alrajeh, Nabil; Peris Ortiz, Marta (IEEE, 2017)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) aggregation is an extension of the classical weighted average by using a reordering process of the arguments in a decreasing or increasing way. This article presents new averaging aggregation ...
    • Contreras Guajardo, Dante; Sepúlveda, Paulina (Oxford University, 2017)
      This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateraleffects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension ofthe ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Blanco Mesa, Fabio; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Yager, Ronald R. (IEEE, 2017)
      The International Journal of Intelligent Systems was created on 1986. Today, the journal has become thirty years old. In order to celebrate this anniversary, this study develops a bibliometric review of all the papers ...
    • Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Duarte Vásquez, Fabián; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime; Budnich, Marilu; Delgado, Carolina; Slachevsky Chonchol, Andrea (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      We study the economic cost of dementia in Chile, and its variation according to socioeconomic status (SES). We use primary data from a survey of 330 informal primary caregivers who completed both a RUD-Lite and a ...
    • Torres, Juan Pablo; Kunc, Martin; O'Brien, Frances (Elsevier, 2017)
      This paper presents a protocol for supporting strategy development via system dynamics (SD) model- ing in consultation with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of small organizations; it also reports on the effectiveness of ...
    • Farías Nazel, Pablo (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 ...
    • Laengle Scarlazetta, Sigifredo; Loyola Fuentes, Gino; Merigó Lindahl, José (IEEE, 2017)
      Portfolio selection is the theory that studies the pro-cess of selecting the optimal proportion of different assets. The firstapproach was introduced by Harry Markowitz and was based ona mean-variance framework. This paper ...
    • Cancino del Castillo, Christian; Zurita Alarcón, Gustavo (Springer, 2017)
      Increasingly more companies support their strategies and value propositions offering their clients some services that require physical mobility and teamwork by their staff. This article proposes a type of Location-based ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Palacios Marqués, Daniel; Soto Acosta, Pedro (Elsevier, 2017)
      The ordered weighted average (OWA) is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of operators between the minimum and the maximum. This paper presents the OWA weighted average distance operator. The main ...
    • Farías Nazel, Pablo (Elsevier, 2017)
      This paper examines the determinants of perceived and actual knowledge of commission paid by contributors in the Chilean pension funds industry. Results show that price consciousness and brand credibility are positively ...
    • Hansen Silva, Erwin; Wagner, Rodrigo (Elsevier, 2017)
      Some projects take time to build or are slow to yield cash flows. This may impact the dynamics of investment and liquidity management, although few studies test their financial implications. We exploit the peculiar ...
    • Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Agostini, Claudio; Repetto, Andrea; Vergara, Damian (Springer, 2018)
      Many countries have special tax regimes (STRs) for small businesses. Even though these regimes may reduce compliance costs, they increase the complexity of the tax system and can be used by high-income individuals to ...
    • Manzur Mobarec, Enrique; Olavarrieta Soto, Sergio; Hidalgo Campos, Pedro; Farías Nazel, Pablo (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2017)
      Authors from several disciplines -decision sciences, management, marketing, behavioral economics- have documented the existence of anomalies to the standard rational model of human behavior. Among several anomalies, the ...
    • Ruiz Vergara, José; Barrero, Marcelo (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 ...
    • Valenzuela Fernández, Leslier; Martínez Troncoso, Carolina (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)
      The present paper examines the reasons why by consumers engage into Virtual Brand Communities Generated by Enterprises (VBGE) and Virtual Brand Communities Generated by Consumers (VBGC) and the relationship between type ...
    • Engel Goetz, Eduardo; Fischer Barkan, Ronald; Galetovic Postch, Alexander (Elsevier, 2019)
      It has been known for some time that renegotiations of public-private partnerships (PPPs) are related to the political cycle. For example, in his seminal work on renegotiations Guasch (2004) found that incoming administrations ...