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    • The brain’s router : a cortical network model of serial processing in the primate brain 

      Zylberberg, Ariel (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 cyclical nature of FDI flows 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Panizza, Ugo; Stein, Ernesto (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 

      Bonvecchi, Alejandro; Calvo, Ernesto; Otálvaro-Ramírez, Susana; Scartascini, Carlos (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 product market competition on capital structure: empirical evidence from the newspaper industry 

      Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago (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 forgotten Roberto Vacca 

      Spector, Horacio (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 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Daude, Christian; Stein, Ernesto (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 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Freiras, Lucía; et al. (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 language of geometry : fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers 

      Amalric, Marie; Wang, Liping; Pica, Pierre; Figueira, Santiago; Sigman, Mariano; Dehaene, Stanislas (2017-01-26)

    • The limited (but relevant) role of the doctrine of the double effect in the Just War Theory 

      Rivera-López, Eduardo (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 

      Goldín, Andrea P; Vladisauskas, Melina; Paz, Gabriel O; Nin, Verónica; Guillén, Jesús A; Belloli, Laouen; Delgado, Hernán; Miguel, Martín A; Macario Cabral, Daniela; Shalom Diego E.; Forés, Anna; Carboni, Alejandra; Fernández-Slezak, Diego (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 

      Marenco, Javier; Koch, Ivo (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 

      Kitzberger, Philip; Schuliaquer, Iván (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 

      Saffon, María Paula; González Bertomeu, Juan F. (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) 

      Ibañez, Agustín; Cetkovich, Marcelo; Petroni, Agustín; Urquina, Hugo; Baez, Sandra; Gonzalez-Gadea, María Luz; Kamienkowski, Juan Esteban; Torralva, Teresa; Torrente, Fernando; Strejilevich, Sergio; Teitelbaum, Julia; Hurtado, Esteban; Guex, Raphael; Melloni, Margherita; Lischinsky, Alicia; Sigman, Mariano; Manes, Facundo (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 Open Anchoring Quest Dataset: Anchored Estimates from 96 Studies on Anchoring Effects 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Röseler, Lukas; Weber, Lucia; et. al (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 presence of irrelevant alternatives paradoxically increases confidence in perceptual decisions 

      Sigman, Mariano; Comay, Nicolás; Della Bella, Gabriel; Lamberti, Pedro; Solovey, Guillermo; Barttfeld, Pablo (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 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Horen, Neeltje van; Schmukler, Sergio (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 

      Schmidtz, David; Palmer, Tom G.; Scalet, Steven (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 

      Etchemendy, Sebastián; Lodola, Germán (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) 

      Liernur, Jorge Francisco (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 ...