Artículos de revistas: Recent submissions
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(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2016)The positive impact that competition has on performance in most industries has been questioned in the education sector. The difficulty to measure competition, the idea that parents don’t rationally choose schools for ...
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(Universal Journal Series, 2014)One of the main tasks in developing distributed collaborative systems is to support synchronization processes. The Coupled Objects paradigm has emerged as a way to easily support these processes by dynamically coupling ...
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Decision making under uncertainty in environmental projects using mathematical simulation modeling (Springer, 2016)In decision-making processes, reliability and risk aversion play a decisive role. The aim of this study is to perform an uncertainty assessment of the effects of future scenarios of sustainable groundwater pumping strategies ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)In the last few decades, there was a marked increase in consumer debt in the United States, Latin America and other emerging countries, spurring a debate about the real costs and benefits of household credit. Using a unique ...
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(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2014)This study utilizes a variable derived from the Annuity Equivalent Wealth dynamic programming model developed by Brown (2001) and Mitchell et al. (1999). The model captures the benefits of having access to the annuity ...
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(Elsevier Science publishes, 2014)We propose a model of delegated portfolio management specialized in alternative investments, i.e., those with a high-return and high-risk profile. It is shown that in this context, as a reward for risk-taking scheme is ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2014)We analyze the extent to which firm size determines the relationship between growth opportunities and bank debt in the Chilean corporate sector. Using generalized method of moments (GMM) system estimator techniques in ...
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(Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015)There is consensus among curriculum developers of Business Schools around the world that along with technical knowledge students should be trained to also acquire soft skills. Communication, collaboration, creativity, ...
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(2016)Las organizaciones, para lograr el éxito, requieren de la conjugación de una serie de condiciones y elementos de carácter estratégico; uno de estos componentes, es sin duda, el liderazgo. Considerando la aseveración ...
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(2016)The concept of dual hesitant fuzzy set arising from hesitant fuzzy set is generalized by including a function reflecting the decision maker's fuzziness about the non-membership degree of the information provided. This paper ...
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(2016)This study examines the effect of the use of securitization and credit derivatives on the risk profile of European banks. Using information from 134 listed European banks during the period of 2006-2010, the results show ...
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(2016)This paper examines the conflicts and resistances that contemporary organizations face in the effort of generating new and challenging work opportunities. Assuming the metaphoric and real character of the 'body of the ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2016)The decision to choose a reinsurance program has many complexities because it is difficult to simultaneously achieve high levels in different optimal criteria including maximum gain, minimum variance, and probability of ...
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(Emerald, 2016)Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explain how two task characteristics and two individual differences influence which heuristics individuals use, and as a results explain their decision performance when choosing ...
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(Elsevier Science Inc., 2016)Currently, the internet is the main product information source for many consumergoods, mainly because of the irruption of consumer reviews based on blogging. Messages placed on them are usually perceived as a reliable and ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)An economic crisis can be measured from different perspectives. A very commonly used measure is that of a country's economic growth. When growth is lower than desired, the economy is assumed to be near stagnation or in an ...
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(Universidad del Zulia Venezuela, 2013)El modelo de Aaker (1997), que permite asociar las características humanas a los atributos de una marca, ha sido utilizado ampliamente en el círculo académico. De ahí que el objetivo de la investigación es identificar las ...
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(Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe, 2012)This paper estimates the distributional effects that would result from eliminating the differential tax treatment of business and personal income in the Chilean tax system, as well as from the elimination of the main ...
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(Elsevier, 2016)We examine effects of protein and energy intakes on height and weight growth for children between 6 and 24 months old in Guatemala and the Philippines. Using instrumental variables to control for endogeneity and estimating ...
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(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006)Using plant-level data on Chilean manufacturing firms for the 1980-2001 period, we estimate and characterize disaggregate total factor productivity. We use these estimates to study the microeconomic sources of aggregate ...
