• Bimbo Bakery case story 

      Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI) (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI), 2011)
      Breve historia de la empresa Bimbo.
    • Bone-GAN: Generation of virtual bone microstructure of high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography 

      Iarussi, Emmanuel; Thomsen, Felix S. L.; Borggrefe, Jan; Boyd, Steven K.; Wang, Yue; Battié, Michele C. (Medical PhysicsAmerican Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023)
      Background:Data-driven development of medical biomarkers of bone requires a large amount of image data but physical measurements are generally too restricted in size and quality to perform a robust training. Purpose: ...
    • Bridging psychology and mathematics : can the brain understand the brain? 

      Sigman, Mariano (2004-09-14)
      We are told scientists are divided into experimentalists and theoreticians. The dialectic description of the dynamics of science, with one tribe gathering data and collecting evidence and another tribe providing form to ...
    • Business cycle and macroeconomic policy coordination in MERCOSUR 

      González-Rozada, Martín; Fanelli, José (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      The paper analyzes cyclical comovements in the Mercosur area differentiating idiosyncratic from common shocks. In the Mercosur (or any region for that matter) shocks can be country-specific, affecting only one country or ...
    • Capital inflows and capital outflows: measurement, determinants, consequences 

      Powell, Andrew; Mohapatra, Sanket; Ratha, Dilip (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
      This paper develops new estimates of capital outflows and is the first, to our knowledge, to analyze the determinants, consequences and inter-relationship between inflows and outflows. Given the dynamics and individual ...
    • Choosing in freedom or forced to choose? Introspective blindness to psychological forcing in stage-magic 

      Shalom, Diego E.; Serro, Maximiliano G. de Sousa; Giaconia, Maximiliano; Martínez, Luis M.; Rieznik, Andrés; Sigman, Mariano (2013-03-13)
      We investigated an individual ability to identify whether choices were made freely or forced by external parameters. We capitalized on magical setups where the notion of psychological forcing constitutes a well trodden ...
    • Chronotype at the beginning of secondary school and school timing are both associated with chronotype development during adolescence 

      Goldín, Andrea Paula; Sigman, Mariano; Rodríguez Ferrante, Guadalupe; Leone, María Juliana (Scientific Reports, 2022)
      The misalignment between late chronotypes and early school start times affect health, performance and psychological well-being of adolescents. Here we test whether, and how, the baseline chronotype (i.e. chronotype at the ...
    • Classifying exchange rate regimes: deeds vs. words 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Sturzenegger, Federico (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
      Most of the empirical literature on exchange rate regimes uses the IMF de jure classification based on the regime announced by the governments, despite the recognized inconsistencies between reported and actual policies ...
    • Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity 

      Gallos, Lazaros K.; Barttfeld, Pablo; Havlin, Shlomo; Sigman, Mariano; Makse, Hernán A. (2012-06-12)
      Obesity prevalence is increasing in many countries at alarming levels. A difficulty in the conception of policies to reverse these trends is the identification of the drivers behind the obesity epidemics. Here, we implement ...
    • Concentration and foreign penetration in Latin American banking sectors: impact on competition and risk 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      In recent years, Latin American banking sectors have experienced an accelerated process of concentration and foreign penetration that has prompted diverse views regarding its implications for the competitive behavior of ...
    • Confidence through consensus : a neural mechanism for uncertainty monitoring 

      Paz, Luciano; Insabato, Andrea; Zylberberg, Ariel; Deco, Gustavo; Sigman, Mariano (2016-02-24)
      Models that integrate sensory evidence to a threshold can explain task accuracy, response times and confidence, yet it is still unclear how confidence is encoded in the brain. Classic models assume that confidence is ...
    • Consumidores de la base de la pirámide: futuro del crecimiento para las empresas de consumo masivo en Argentina 

      Amado, Lautaro (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2011)
      El presente trabajo vio su origen en el interés personal por el efecto social y crecimiento económico de los Negocios Inclusivos en los países menos desarrollados. En el mismo se analiza la factibilidad de llevar a cabo ...
    • Dazzled by the mystery of mentalism : the cognitive neuroscience of mental athletes 

      Rieznik, Andrés; Lebedev, Mikhail; Sigman, Mariano (2017-05-31)
      Neural processing bymental athletes (MAs) has received attention fromNeuroscience community, with several publications examining superior memorizers (Maguire et al., 2003; Bor et al., 2008), lighting calculators (Pesenti ...
    • Default's in the 1990's: what have we learned? 

      Sturzenegger, Federico; Chuham, Punan (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      The principal focus of this chapter is on sovereign defaults on external debt in the 1990s and the lessons that have been learned. The rest of the chapter is organized as follows. Section II explains the meaning of debt ...
    • Defaults in the 90's: Factbook and preliminary lessons 

      Sturzenegger, Federico (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
      Since the Tequila crisis in 1994, and particularly after the succession of crises in Asia and the default episode in Russia, questions related to international sovereign bond restructuring have been increasingly at the ...
    • Delays without mistakes : response time and error distributions in dual-task 

      Kamienkowski, Juan Esteban; Sigman, Mariano (2008-09-12)
      Background: When two tasks are presented within a short interval, a delay in the execution of the second task has been systematically observed. Psychological theorizing has argued that while sensory and motor operations ...
    • Demand Estimation under Uncertain Consideration Sets 

      Vulcano, Gustavo; Jagabathula, Srikanth; Mitrofanov, Dmitry (Operations Research (ISSN: 0030-364X), 2023-09)
      To estimate customer demand, choice models rely both on what the individuals do and do not purchase. A customer may not purchase a product because it was not offered but also because it was not considered. To account for ...
    • Disentangling interoception : insights from focal strokes affecting the perception of external and internal milieus 

      Couto, Blas (2015-05-01)
      Interoception is the moment-to-moment sensing of the physiological condition of the body. The multimodal sources of interoception can be classified into two different streams of afferents: an internal pathway of signals ...
    • Diversity of opinions promotes herding in uncertain crowds 

      Navajas, Joaquin; Armand, Oriane; Moran, Rani; Bahrami, Bahador; Deroy, Ophelia (Royal Society Open Science, 2022)
      Classic and recent studies demonstrate how we fall for the ‘tyranny of the majority' and conform to the dominant trend when uncertain. However, in many social interactions outside of the laboratory, there is rarely a clearly ...
    • DUDF: Differentiable Unsigned Distance Fields with Hyperbolic Scaling 

      Fainstein, Miguel; Siless, Viviana; Iarussi, Emmanuel (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2024)
      In recent years, there has been a growing interest in training Neural Networks to approximate Unsigned Distance Fields (UDFs) for representing open surfaces in the context of 3D reconstruction. However, UDFs are ...