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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
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The limited (but relevant) role of the doctrine of the double effect in the Just War Theory
(Ethics & Global PoliticsRoutledgeTaylor & Francis, 2017)My focus in this paper is the use of the doctrine of double effect (DDE) in the context of Just War Theory. Different versions of DDE have different degrees of plausibility. Two distinctions are crucial. First, I distinguish ... -
The Long and Winding Road to Real-Life Experiments: Remote Assessment of Executive Functions with Computerized Games—Results from 8 Years of Naturalistic Interventions
(Brain Sciences (e-ISSN 2076-3425), 2024-03-07)Mate Marote is an open-access cognitive training software aimed at children between 4 and 8 years old. It consists of a set of computerized games specifically tailored to train and evaluate Executive Functions (EF), a ... -
The maximum 2D subarray polytope: facet-inducing inequalities and polyhedral computations
(2022)Given a matrix with real-valued entries, the maximum 2D subarray problem consists in finding a rectangular submatrix with consecutive rows and columns maximizing the sum of its entries. In this work we start a polyhedral ... -
The Media Politics of Latin America’s Post Left Turn: Legal (Counter-)Reforms in Argentina and Ecuador
(2022)Latin America’s ‘left turn’ has been characterized by ambitious reforms to reshuffle power relations in the region’s historically elitist and commercially-driven media systems. Those radical media policies faced course ... -
The Mix of Latin American Populist Constitutionalism
(2022)In this article, we study Latin American populist constitutions and their uses, seeking to analytically understand whether populist constitutionalism is, indeed, a thing. We posit that Latin American populist constitutionalism ... -
The neural basis of decision-making and reward processing in adults with euthymic bipolar disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(2012-05-18)Background: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder (BD) share DSM-IV criteria in adults and cause problems in decision-making. Nevertheless, no previous report has assessed a decision-making ... -
The non-stop mall: el duty free como campo variado de displays comerciales
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, [2016])La infinita variedad comercial se está convirtiendo en una pieza edificatoria distinguible en todos los aeropuertos al estar cada vez más equipados con servicios no vinculados a volar, convirtiéndose, como advierte Rem ... -
The Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects
(Journal of Open Psychology DataUbiquity Press, 2022)People’s estimates are biased toward previously considered numbers (anchoring). We have aggregated all available data from anchoring studies that included at least two anchors into one large dataset. Data were standardized ... -
The Potential Footprint of Plant- Based Meat Adoption on Leading Crop Producers
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-12-30)Plant-based meat (PBM) has the potential to improve the global food supply chain on numerous environmental and societal dimensions. Some of these gains, derived from lower animal meat production, could disrupt the supply ...