Browsing Escuela de Negocios by Title
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Nudging cooperation in a crowd experiment
(2016-01-21)We examine the hypothesis that driven by a competition heuristic, people don't even reflect or consider whether a cooperation strategy may be better. As a paradigmatic example of this behavior we propose the zero-sum ... -
On the endogeneity of exchange rate regimes
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)The literature has identified at least five approaches to the determinants of the choice of exchange rate regimes: i) optimal currency area theory; ii) exchange rate policy and the absortion of real and nominal shocks; ... -
Optimal Carbon Offsets with Heterogeneous Regions
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-02-08)We study optimal climate policy in a global economy where regions differ in wealth and vulnerability to climate change. Carbon emissions from production generate out- put losses - a negative climate externality - and a ... -
Organization of brain networks governed by long-range connections index autistic traits in the general population
(2013-06-27)Background: The dimensional approach to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) considers ASD as the extreme of a dimension traversing through the entire population. We explored the potential utility of electroencephalography (EEG) ... -
Outcome context-dependence is not WEIRD: Comparing reinforcementand description- based economic preference worldwide
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023-03-02)Recent evidence indicates that reward value encoding in humans is highly context-dependent, leading to suboptimal decisions in some cases. But whether this computational constraint on valuation is a shared feature of human ... -
Parsing a cognitive task : a characterization of the mind’s bottleneck
(2005-02-08)Parsing a mental operation into components, characterizing the parallel or serial nature of this flow, and understanding what each process ultimately contributes to response time are fundamental questions in cognitive ... -
Partisanship predicts COVID-19 vaccine brand preference: the case of Argentina
(Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun) ISSN 2662-9992 (online), 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the significance of overcoming vaccine adoption resistance and addressing real and perceived barriers for efficient vaccination campaigns. One major problem faced by health systems around ... -
Partisanship Predicts COVID-19 Vaccine Brand Preference: The Insightful Case of Argentina
(2022)The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of not only diminishing the resistance to vaccine adoption in general, but also to reduce both real and perceived barriers to a swift vaccination campaign. One major problem ... -
Peer tutoring of computer programming increases exploratory behavior in children
(Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2022)There is growing interest in teaching computer science and programming skills in schools. Here we investigated the efficacy of peer tutoring, which is known to be a useful educational resource in other domains but never ... -
Planificación docente para fomentar habilidades cognitivas básicas desde el aula. Un ejemplo de implementación concreto
(Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 2024-03)Los resultados de las últimas evaluaciones de la calidad educativa evidenciaron que el sistema educativo argentino necesita un cambio. Simultáneamente, las ciencias del comportamiento han avanzado significativamente ... -
Political Uncertainty and the Geographic Allocation of Credit: Evidence from Small Businesses
(Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (e-ISSN:1538-4616), 2024-05-23)We investigate how banks change the geographic distribution of their small business loan portfolio when they face political uncertainty in some of the states where they operate. Using exogenous variation in gubernatorial ... -
Por qué crecen menos los regímenes de tipo de cambio fijo? El efecto de los Sudden Stops
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003) -
Predicción de la satisfacción del usuario a partir de chats de atención al cliente
(Memorias de las JAIIO, 2023)Los servicios de atención al cliente son determinantes de la experiencia de usuario de las empresas Fintech. Este trabajo busca entender, empleando técnicas de machine learning, qué factores llevan a ... -
Preliminary evidence about the effects of meditation on interoceptive sensitivity and social cognition
(2013-12-23)Background: Interoception refers to the conscious perception of body signals. Mindfulness is a meditation practice that encourages individuals to focus on their internal experiences such as bodily sensations, thoughts, ... -
Primer relevamiento de actores de los negocios inclusivos en Argentina. Primera parte, emprendimientos y pequeñas empresas, 2012-2013
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI), 2013)El objetivo del informe es identificar negocios inclusivos y los actores de apoyo, en otras palabras, entender el (eco)sistema de los negocios inclusivos en Argentina. Esta iniciativa nace ante la ausencia de un estudio ... -
Primer relevamiento de actores de los negocios inclusivos en Argentina. Segunda parte, programas con impacto social de las grandes empresas (2014-2016)
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI), 2016)El objetivo general del presente relevamiento es indagar cómo desarrollan acciones con impacto social las grandes empresas en Argentina y cómo se enmarcan esos programas en su modelo de negocio. En tanto que los objetivos ... -
Producing or reproducing reasoning? Socratic dialog is very effective, but only for a few
(2017-03-23)Successful communication between a teacher and a student is at the core of pedagogy. A well known example of a pedagogical dialog is `Meno', a socratic lesson of geometry in which a student learns (or `discovers') how ... -
Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)The aggregation of many lay judgements generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the “wisdom of crowds”, has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision making and financial forecasting. ... -
Promoting Erroneous Divergent Opinions Increases the Wisdom of Crowds
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024-06-12)The aggregation of many lay judgments generates surprisingly accurate estimates. This phenomenon, called the “wisdom of crowds,” has been demonstrated in domains such as medical decision-making and financial forecasting. ... -
Proprioceptive body illusions modulate the visual perception of reaching distance
(2015-06-25)The neurobiology of reaching has been extensively studied in human and non-human pri- mates. However, the mechanisms that allow a subject to decide—without engaging in explicit action—whether an object is reachable are not ...