• Teamwork Quality Prediction Using Speech-Based Features 

      Meza, Martín; Gauder, Lara; Estienne, Lautaro; Barchi, Ricardo; Gravano, Agustín; Riera, Pablo; Ferrer, Luciana (SMM23, Workshop on Speech, Music and Mind 2023, 2023)
      This paper describes a novel protocol for annotating teamwork quality and related variables, based only on the speech signal. Our protocol was designed to annotate a Spanish version of the Objects Games corpus, a publicly ...
    • The Argentina crisis: bad luck, bad management, bad politics, bad advice 

      Powell, Andrew (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
      In my view the crisis was avoidable and one can even point to key events and decisions at particular moments of time. If some combination of these events had turned out different, it is likely that crisis would have been ...
    • 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 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 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 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 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 Spatial and Temporal Construction of Confidence in the Visual Scene 

      Graziano, Martín; Sigman, Mariano (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 Value of Observing the Buyer Arrival Time in Dynamic Pricing 

      Vulcano, Gustavo; Correa, José; Pizarro, Dana (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 wisdom of extremized crowds: Promoting erroneous divergent opinions increases collective accuracy 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Barrera Lermarchand, Federico; Balenzuela, Pablo; Bahrami,Bahador; Deroy, Ophelia (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, ...
    • Time-order-errors and duration ranges in the episodic Temporal generalization task 

      Mikulan, Ezequiel P.; Bruzzone, Manuel; Serodio, Manuel; Sigman, Mariano; Bekinschtein, Tristan A.; García, Adolfo M.; Sedeño, Lucas; Ibáñez, Agustín (2007-01-01)
    • Toolkit for the analysis of debt problems 

      Sturzenegger, Federico (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 ...
    • Un año de medición del índice de Demanda Laboral: situación actual y perspectivas 

      Lamdany, Victoria; Monteverde, Luciana (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 ...