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    • Núñez Errázuriz, Javier (Springer, 2007)
      This paper analyzes the reputation-based incentives of a Self-Regulatory Organization (SRO) to detect and expose consumer fraud committed by its members, and the members’ incentives to bribe the SRO in exchange for a ...
    • Liu, Peide; Liu, Junlin; Merigó Lindahl, José (Elsevier, 2018)
      Heronian mean (HM) operator has the advantages of considering the interrelationships between parame-ters, and linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy number (LIFN), in which the membership and non-membership areexpressed by ...
    • Llopis Albert, Carlos; Merigó Lindahl, José; Xu, Yejun; Liao, Huchang (Water Environment Federation, 2018)
      This study analyzes the level of satisfaction of stakeholders in the public participation process (PPP) of water resources management, which is mandatory according to the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD). The methodology ...
    • Hojman Trujillo, Daniel; Miranda, Alvaro (Elsevier, 2018)
      In the last decades, our understanding of human well-being and development has shifted from a traditional focus on income and consumption toward a richer multidimensional approach. This shift has been strongly influenced ...
    • López Vega, Ramón; Anríquez, Gustavo; Gulati, Sumeet (Elsevier, 2007)
      In this paper, we show that the commonly observed decline in primary (natural resource using) sector output and employment shares, often termed structural change, can be explained as an endogenous response to the presence ...
    • Martinez A, Claudia; Puentes Encina, Esteban; Ruiz-Tagle Venero, Jaime (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 ...
    • Merigó Lindahl, José; Pedrycz, Witold; Weber, Richard; Sotta, Catalina de la (Elsevier Science INC, 2018)
      Information Sciences is a leading international journal in computer science launched in 1968, so becoming fifty years old in 2018. In order to celebrate its anniversary, this study presents a bibliometric overview of the ...
    • Jerez, Oscar; Orsini, Cesar; Hasbun, Beatriz; Lobos, Eduardo; Muñoz, Marcos (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, 2018)
      In Chile, as well as in most of Latin America, public policies for higher education have recently adopted a focus on quality assurance and accreditation systems. Uncertainty, however, still exists in terms of the quality ...
    • Blanco Mesa, Fabio; Gil Lafuente, Anna María; Merigó Lindahl, José (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2018)
      The main aim of this paper is to study how economic environment and logic reasoning guidance the decision-making process to start-up a new business by potential entrepreneurs. The study proposes a new method using the ...
    • Arellano, María Soledad; Serra Banfi, Pablo (Elsevier, 2007)
      This paper studies the exercise of market power in price-regulated electricity industries under peak-load pricing and merit order dispatching, but where investment decisions are taken by independent generating companies. ...
    • Steinert, Mariano; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Elsevier, 2007)
      We address a two-period equilibrium model with securitization of collateral-backed promises. Borrowers may suffer extra-economic default penalties and debts are pooled into collateralized loans obligations (CLO), allowing ...
    • Bravo Ortega, Claudio; Eterovic, Nicolas A.; Paredes, Valentina (Elsevier, 2018)
      The economic literature has attributed part of the increase in government expenditure over the 20th century to female voting. This is puzzling, considering that the political science literature has documented that women ...
    • Maldonado, Sebastián; Merigó Lindahl, José; Miranda Pino, Jaime (Elsevier, 2018)
      In this work, the classical soft-margin Support Vector Machine (SVM) formulation is redefined with the inclusion of an Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator. In particular, the hinge loss function is rewritten as a ...
    • Orsini, César; Binnie, V.; Wilson, S.; Villegas, M. J. (Wiley, 2018)
      AimThe aim of this study was to test the mediating role of the satisfaction of dental students' basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence and relatedness on the association between learning climate, feedback and ...
    • Figueroa Benavides, Eugenio (Elsevier, 2008)
      In the past, Cd regulations have imposed trade restrictions on foodstuffs from some developing countries seeking to access markets in the developed world and in recent years, there has been a trend towards imposing more ...
    • Petrassi, Myrian; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Elsevier, 2008)
      Introducing assets backed by physical collateral, we extend the [Cornet, B., De Boisdeffre, L., 2002. Arbitrage and price revelation with asymmetric information and incomplete markets. Journal of Mathematical Economics 38, ...
    • Seghir, Abdelkrim; Torres Martínez, Juan Pablo (Springer, 2008)
      We develop a general equilibrium model of wealth transfers in the presence of uncertain lifetimes and default. Without introducing exogenous debt constraints, agents are allowed to make collateral-backed promises at any ...
    • León Castro, Ernesto; Avilés Ochoa, Ezequiel; Merigó Lindahl, José; Gil Lafuente, Anna María (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      This paper presents the heavy ordered weighted moving average (HOWMA) operator. It is an aggregation operator that uses the main characteristics of two well-known techniques: the heavy ordered weighted averaging (OWA) and ...
    • Farías Nazel, Pablo (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017)
      Background: There is a wide difference in the total cost of cash advances offered in Chile. A little knowledge of the total cost of cash advances indicates a vulnerable consumer who may be unable to be aware of when and ...
    • Cid Aranda, Carlos; Jara Bertín, Mauricio; Maquieira Villanueva, Carlos; San Martín Mosqueira, Pablo (Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2017)
      Background: The use of derivative instruments, as corporate policy to hedge financial risks has a positive impact on the firm value. However, in countries characterized by weak legal protection of the investors' rights and ...