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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 ... -
The presence of irrelevant alternatives paradoxically increases confidence in perceptual decisions
(Cognition, 2023)Confidence in perceptual decisions is thought to reflect the probability of being correct. According to this view, confidence should be unaffected or minimally reduced by the presence of irrelevant alternatives. To test ... -
The price of incorvertible deposits: the stock market boom during the Argentine crisis
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)The Argentine crisis witnessed, among other things, a deposit run, the suspension of deposit convertibility, and a “boom” in the stock market. We argue that this boom reflects the cost that depositors were willing to incur ... -
The resources of civil society
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 1999-11)We understand civil society as a form, or rather, as a variety of forms, of social organization that contrast with government-imposed organization. We need some such marker for conceptually separating communities from the ... -
The Rise of Public Sector Unions in the Twenty-FirstCentury: A Theoretical,Mixed-Methods Approachwith Evidence from Argentina
(Politics & SocietySAGE, 2023)Public sector unions are increasingly becoming the hegemonic contemporary labor actorin terms of membership and militancy in both advanced and emerging economies.However, political economy lacks a unified theoretical ... -
The role of financial assistance programs in small business development
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The role of lessors in the airline input market: efficiency-enhancing agents or suprlus-ansorbing intermediaries?
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2015)Lessors are a crucial player in the efficiency of the input market for airlines and therefore in the development of the world economy as affected by commercial aviation. Among the issues lessors are able to improve are: ... -
The South American Way : el "milagro" brasileño, los Estados Unidos (1939-1943)
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos, 1999)En 1943, con la publicación del libro Brazil Builds concluía el ciclo de construcción del «caso brasileño» como topos fundamental del imaginario de la arquitectura del siglo XX. Aunque su proceso de gestación puede ... -
The Spatial and Temporal Construction of Confidence in the Visual Scene
(2009-03-17)Human subjects can report many items of a cluttered field a few hundred milliseconds after stimulus presentation. This memory decays rapidly and after a second only 3 or 4 items can be stored in working memory. Here we ... -
The Thirlwall's model of economic growth using state space representation and time-variying parameter stimation throught the Kalman filter: theory and empirical application for El Salvador, 1965-2010
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2014)This thesis work centers its attention in understanding, from a Post Keynesian point of view, which are the main factors that have influenced the economic growth rate of El Salvador during the period of 1965 to 2010. The ... -
The transfer pricing problem: the Argentine experience (1932-1998)
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 2000)This essay examines the various approaches that Argentina has developed to address this problem in the income tax area. The period studied runs from 1932, when the first transfer pricing provision was passed, up to the ... -
The UNCTAD International Investment Agreements (IIA): mapping project
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2016)El objetivo de este reporte de investigación es analizar el proyecto de la UNCTAD (Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre Comercio y Desarrollo) denominado The UNCTAD International Investment Agreements (IIA) Mapping ... -
The Value of Observing the Buyer Arrival Time in Dynamic Pricing
(2020)We consider a dynamic pricing problem where a firm sells one item to a single buyer in order to maximize expected revenues. The firm commits to a price function over an infinite horizon. The buyer arrives at some random ... -
The welfare effects of unemployment insurance in Argentina. New estimates using changes in the schedule of transfers
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2022)Unemployment insurance transfers should balance the provision of consumption to the unemployed with the disincentive effects on the search behavior. Developing countries face the additional challenge of informality. Workers ... -
The wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)The aggregation of many lay judgements can generate surprisingly accurate estimates. This effect, known as the “wisdom of the crowd”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making, factchecking news, ... -
Thinking outside the box: la diplomacia postmoderna británica durante el conflicto de Malvinas/Faklands
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2007)