Artículos de revistas: Recent submissions
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(Elsevier Doyma, 2015)We analyze the effect of two types of corporate diversification (business diversification and ownership diversification) on the market value of the Chilean firms. For a sample of 83 nonfinancial firms listed on the ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Sales forecasting consists of calculating the expected sales of a specific product or company. An important issue when dealing with sales forecasting is the calculation of the average sales, usually using the arithmetic ...
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(Mit Press, 2015)This paper proposes a novel matching estimator where neighbors used and weights are endogenously determined by optimizing a covariate balancing criterion. The estimator is based on finding, for each unit that needs to ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)We develop a method that allows transforming retained business profits in a particular year into business-accrued capital gains of the same year. These capital gains thus estimated can be simply added to other sources ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)This study proposes a micro-institutional theory of political violence, according to which citizens’ participation in political violence is partially an outcome of tight coupling of persons’ practices and self-identific ...
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(Amer Dental Education Assoc-Adea, 2015)The Academic Motivation Scale is one of the most frequently used instruments to assess academic motivation. It relies on the self-determination theory of human motivation. However, motivation has been understudied in ...
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(Emerald, 2015)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the corporate ownership diversification, i.e. how the involvement in the ownership of other non-financial firms affects the value of listed firms. The authors ...
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(Sage Pub., 2015)This article investigates the complex interaction between contracting arrangements and quality of human resources (HR) practices. It draws on quantitative and qualitative empirical evidence for the adult social care ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)Theoretical models of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) almost universally assume additive preferences; we demonstrate that under non-additive preferences the sufficient condition to sign the economy's income-pollution ...
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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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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Chilean governments since 1990 have relied on economic growth to generate employment, higher wages and better conditions of employment. But the results of this policy have been mixed: quantitative improvements in ...
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(IEEE, 2015)There are many scenarios in which business processes will benefit from the integration of geographical information for its management. In this paper we discuss a set of requirements for ad-hoc geo-referenced Business ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)In countries where informal, insecure jobs are widespread, traditional labour market indicators – such as the unemployment rate, labour force participation rate and wages – are not necessarily the most meaningful. The ...
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(Elsevier, 2015)This paper examines the effect of unhealthy food brand placement on children across different age groups (9, 12 and 15 year-old children). Results show that both brand awareness, and the behavioral disposition (toward junk ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)Several authors have argued that forest ecosystems serve as a hedge against extreme climatic events at a local scale. Consequently, the local climate regulation ecosystem services provided by forests can be economically ...
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(Biomed Central, 2014)In Chile, the use of costing systems in the public sector is limited. The Ministry of Health requires hospitals to manage themselves with the aim of decentralizing health care services and increasing their quality. However, ...
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(Wiley & Sons, 2015)The ordered weighted average (OWA) is an aggregation operator that provides a parameterized family of aggregation operators between the minimum and the maximum. This paper analyzes the use of the OWA in the variance and ...
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(Federación Asociaciones Ingenieros Industriales, 2015)The present paper aims to study if an environment where the employees perceive that they are working in a dutiful work environment with all standards promoted by the organization improves operation quality of high or low ...
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(Academic Economic Studies, 2015)Setting a commercial premium for an insurance policy is a complex process, even, though statistical tools provide fairly reliable information on the behavior of the frequency and cost of claims differentiated by risk ...
