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Business cycle and macroeconomic policy coordination in MERCOSUR
(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 ...
Estructuras e instrumentos financieros para el desarrollo de negocios inclusivos
(Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2012)
El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo general evaluar los factores condicionantes y las oportunidades que existen en Argentina para poder replicar las estructuras y herramientas financieras que actualmente ...
The FTAA and the location of FDI
(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 ...
Collective behavior in the spatial spreading of obesity
(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 ...
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 ...
Capital inflows and capital outflows: measurement, determinants, consequences
(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 ...
Classifying exchange rate regimes: deeds vs. words
(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 ...
The neural basis of decision-making and reward processing in adults with euthymic bipolar disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(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 ...
Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals
(2017-07-25)
Empathy is a complex cognitive and affective process that allows humans to experience concern for
others, comprehend their emotions, and eventually help them. In addition to studies with healthy
subjects and various ...