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The Argentina crisis: bad luck, bad management, bad politics, bad advice
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)In my view the crisis was avoidable and one can even point to key events and decisions at particular moments of time. If some combination of these events had turned out different, it is likely that crisis would have been ... -
The Argentine industrial labor market in the long run: Baumol Effects and the intergenerational transfer of stagflation
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The brain’s router : a cortical network model of serial processing in the primate brain
(2010-04-29)The human brain efficiently solves certain operations such as object recognition and categorization through a massively parallel network of dedicated processors. However, human cognition also relies on the ability to perform ... -
The Brazil-Argentina tax treaty: its hidden structure
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2013)The present article attempts to explain the very particular structure that relies beneath the convention to avoid double taxation subscribed in 1980 between the Republic of Argentina and the Federative Republic of Brazil ... -
The Chávez Effect: presidential elections in Latin America2005-2006
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2014)Hugo Chávez tenía como objetivo el empoderamiento nacional para toda Latinoamérica, en una revolución del siglo XXI con la que esperaba unir la ideología compartida a las visiones resultantes de los objetivos políticos, ... -
The China Shock : análisis del efecto de las Importaciones chinas sobre el empleo manufacturero en Argentina
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2018-08)xiste una idea generalizada de que el comercio internacional ha generado consecuencias negativas sobre el mercado laboral en las economías emergentes durante la última década. De hecho, gran parte del discurso de los ... -
The consequences of price inestability on search markets: a quantitative assessment
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2011)This paper calibrates the model of a real economy in which inflation is introduced as an idiosyncratic shock to firms’ costs. Inflation induces relative price variability, eroding long-term relationships between customers ... -
The cyclical nature of FDI flows
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002-12-19)In this paper, we examine how the business and interest rate cycles in developed countries affects FDI to developing countries. After aggregating flows into three big source areas (the U.S., Europe and Japan), we find FDI ... -
The Effect of a Crisis on Trust and Willingness to Reform
(Inter-American Development Bank, 2022)Does exposure to crises reduce the citizens’ trust in a country’s president? Are individuals willing to accept fiscal reforms and make personal economic sacrifices if it would help the country to leave the crisis faster? ... -
The effect of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity
(Universidad Torcuato Di TellaCorporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), 2022-06)We study the impact of high dismissal protection on bureaucratic turnover and productivity in the context of public school teachers in Chile. We take advantage of a law that required education administrators to grant a ... -
The effect of product market competition on capital structure: empirical evidence from the newspaper industry
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)This paper analyzes whether the extent of product market competition that a firm faces affects its capital structure. We study the effect of competition on leverage for firms acting in the US newspaper industry. Potential ... -
The equity premium puzzle in a Markov regime switching model with rare disasters
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The evolution of the fragance account manager role
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The fewer and the better, the better: an endogenous growth model with endogenous fertility and human capital
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The forgotten Roberto Vacca
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 2013-07)Who was Roberto Vacca? We do not know much about him. All the information I was able to gather has come from his nephew and namesake, an engineer and writer who devotes himself to science popularization. Roberto Vacca was ... -
The FTAA and the location of FDI
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)The role of regional integration agreements as a determinant of the location of FDI has become an increasingly relevant issue for emerging economies. While the concerns regarding the impact of RIAs on FDI for countries in ... -
The globalizability of temporal discounting
(Nature Human Behaviour, 2022)Economic inequality is associated with preferences for smaller, immediate gains over larger, delayed ones. Such temporal discounting may feed into rising global inequality, yet it is unclear whether it is a function of ... -
The impact of crowdsourcing on business models
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the impact of inmigration policy on assimilation and security: comparing the United States and France
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2008)