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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 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 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 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, ... -
Thomas Hobbes y la formación de jóvenes científicos : Leibniz, Newton, y una inexplicable omisión
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Departamento de Historia, 2012-07)Estudio sobre el lugar que le dio la historia de la ciencia a Tomás Hobbes teniendo en cuenta textos de Newton y Leibniz. -
Toolkit for the analysis of debt problems
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)The idea of this chapter is to provide a number of tools that may allow an independent observer to assess the likelihood of default, to provide the clues for an evaluation of likely restructuring scenarios and to be able ... -
Torres en un jardín de Buenos Aires
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos, 2023)La ciudad de Buenos Aires fue federalizada en el año 1880, contando en ese entonces con 4 mil hectáreas de superficie y 400.000 habitantes; siete años más tarde, se sancionaba la ley 2.089 de “ensanche del municipio de la ... -
[Transcripción de la ponencia del juez Ricardo Lorenzetti sobre el Código Civil y Comercial]
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La transformación de la vida cotidiana: la evolución de los bienes durables en Argentina, 1920-1970
(Historia Crítica, 2022)Objetivo/Contexto: El artículo se centra en la evolución del consumo de bienes durables (heladeras eléctricas y cocinas a gas) —que constituyen electrodomésticos para uso del hogar—, y de bienes para el entretenimiento que ... -
Transformando la salud global a través de una gobernabilidad imaginada a salud global
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 2010-10)La salud tiene un rol fundamental en nuestras vidas como individuos y como miembros de la sociedad. En el plano individual, la salud es importante para el bienestar de una persona y puede afectar a sus oportunidades en el ... -
Transforming global health through broadly imagined global health governance
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 2010-10)Health plays a fundamental rolen our lives as individual members of society. At the individual level, health is critical to a person's wellbeing and can affect his her opportunities in the world. Health is also important ... -
Trust, adjudication and the quis custodiet problem
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Derecho, 2001-11)There is a sense in which this familiar classical question - who shall guard the guardians? - is the central normative question in the public choice approach to politics and to institutional design more generally. It is ... -
Un año de medición del índice de Demanda Laboral: situación actual y perspectivas
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)El índice de demanda laboral es elaborado por la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella desde agosto de 2002. La motivación para la elaboración del índice fue la falta de un indicador mensual que reflejara la situación del ...