• Effect of comprehensive smoke-free legislation on the tourism industry in countries of the Caribbean Community 

      González-Rozada, Martín; Prieto-Lara, Elisa; Sandoval, Guillermo A. (2022)
      Objective. To assess whether the introduction of comprehensive smoke-free legislation affected tourism in four Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago. Methods. We ...
    • El rol de las empresas en la búsqueda de la equidad del acceso al agua 

      Hoyo, Carolina Eugenia del (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2015)
      Este trabajo busca comprender la posición que han tomado las empresas privadas frente a la problemática del agua y la necesidad de garantizar la sostenibilidad del recurso. Se analizan diferentes modelos de acercamiento a ...
    • Empathy for others’ suffering and its mediators in mental health professionals 

      Santamaría-García, Hernando; Baez, Sandra; García, Adolfo M.; Flichtentrei, Daniel; Prats, María; Mastandueno, Ricardo; Sigman, Mariano; Matallana, Diana; Cetkovich, Marcelo; Ibáñez, Agustín (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 ...
    • Emprender con impacto 

      Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Gobierno de la Ciudad; Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI) (Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Gobierno de la Ciudad, 2017)
      "Emprender con impacto" brinda herramientas para pensar y llevar a la práctica soluciones inno- vadoras a lo largo de toda la cadena de producción de bienes y servicios, conjugando las tres dimensiones del impacto (social, ...
    • Endogenous deposit dollarization 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Broda, Cristian (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003-02)
      This paper explores sources of deposit dollarization unrelated to standard moral hazard arguments. We develop a model in which banks choose the optimal currency composition of their liabilities. We argue that the equal ...
    • Equilibrium and Real Options in the Ethanol Industry: Modelling and Empirical Evidence 

      Merener, Nicolás; Davison, Matt (Journal of Commodity MarketsElsevier B.V., 2022)
      In the last twenty years a large number of competitive ethanol rms have estab- lished operations in the US. Ethanol, produced from corn, is blended with pure gasoline to produce fuel. Producers hold an option to turn o ...
    • Estructuras e instrumentos financieros para el desarrollo de negocios inclusivos 

      Rey, Sabrina (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 ...
    • Exploiting user-frequency information for mining regionalisms in Argentinian Spanish from Twitter 

      Gravano, Agustín; Pérez, Juan Manuel; Aleman, Damian E.; Kalinowski, Santiago N. (Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, Revista, 2022)
      The task of detecting regionalisms (expressions or words used in certain regions) has traditionally relied on the use of questionnaires and surveys, heavily depending on the expertise and intuition of the surveyor. The ...
    • Family centered model for maternal and newborn care (FCM) : The Sarda Maternity Hospital case hiistory 

      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 del Hospital de Maternidad Sardá.
    • Financial globalization: unequal blessings 

      Torre, Augusto de la; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Schmukler, Sergio L. (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002)
      This paper presents a framework to analyze financial globalization. It argues that financial globalization needs to take into account the relation between money (particularly in its role as store of value), asset and factor ...
    • Finantial dollarization and debt deflation under a currency board 

      Levy Yeyati, Eduardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Schargrodsky, Ernesto Santiago (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      In the late currency board years, Argentina faced a real exchange rate adjustment through price deflation amidst growing devaluation expectations. Using a firm-level panel database to analyze the incidence of these factors ...
    • Flexible exchange rates as shock absorbers 

      Edwards, Sebastián; Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003-07)
      In this paper we analyze empirically the effect of terms of trade shocks on economic performance under alternative exchange rate regimes. We are particularly interested in investigating whether terms of trade disturbances ...
    • Guía legal para emprendimientos sociales en Argentina : ¿qué figura jurídica elegir para crear empresas de impacto social? 

      Fundación Thomson Reuters (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Espacio de Negocios Inclusivos (ENI), 2016-06)
      Esta guía pretende orientar al emprendedor en el análisis sobre la figura jurídica que mejor se adapte a su emprendimiento. Ahora bien, debemos señalar que tradicionalmente en Argentina las figuras jurídicas se ...
    • How do you feel when you can’t feel your body? Interoception, functional connectivity and emotional processing in depersonalization-derealization disorder 

      Sedeño, Lucas; Couto, Blas; Melloni, Margherita; Canales-Johnson, Andrés; Yoris, Adrian; Baez, Sandra; Esteves, Sol; Velasquez, Marcela; Barttfeld, Pablo; Sigman, Mariano; Kichic, Rafael; Chialvo, Dante; Manes, Facundo; Bekinschtein, Tristan A.; Ibáñez, Agustín (2014-06-26)
      Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder (DD) typically manifests as a disruption of body self-awareness. Interoception 2 defined as the cognitive processing of body signals2 has been extensively considered as a key ...
    • Imagetic and affective measures of memory reverberation diverge at sleep onset in association with theta rhythm 

      Sigman, Mariano; Bezerra Mota, Natália; Soares, Ernesto; Altszyler, Edgar; Sánchez-Gendriz, Ignacio; Muto, Vincenzo; Heib, Dominik; Slezak, Diego F.; Copelli, Mauro; Schabus, Manuel; Ribeiro, Sidarta (Elsevier Inc, 2022)
      The ‘day residue’ - the presence of waking memories into dreams - is a century-old concept that remains controver- sial in neuroscience. Even at the psychological level, it remains unclear how waking imagery cedes into ...
    • Incidencia de la economía solidaria como alternativa económica en Argentina 

      Franco, María del Carmen di (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2013)
    • Inference and estimation in small sample dynamic panel data models 

      Galiani, Sebastián; González-Rozada, Martín (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2002-12-27)
      We study the finite sample properties of the most important methods of estimation of dynamic panel data models in a special class of small samples: a two-sided small sample (i.e., a sample in which the time dimension is ...
    • Interactive Crowdsourcing to Fact-check Politicians 

      Espina Mairal, Santos; Bustos, Florencia; Solovey, Guillermo; Navajas, Joaquin (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2023)
      The discourse of political leaders often contains false information that can misguide the public. Fact-checking agencies around the world try to reduce the negative influence of politicians by verifying their words. However, ...
    • Learning normal asymmetry representations for homologous brain structures 

      Bendersky, Mariana; Iarussi, Emmanuel; Deangeli, Duilio; Princich, Juan Pablo; Larrabide, Ignacio; Orlando, José Ignacio (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2023)
      Although normal homologous brain structures are approximately symmetrical by definition, they also have shape differences due to e.g. natural ageing. On the other hand, neurodegenerative conditions induce their own changes ...
    • Liquidity protection versus Moral Hazard: the role of the IMF 

      Powell, Andrew; Arozamena, Leandro (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Escuela de Negocios. Centro de Investigaciones en Finanzas (CIF), 2003)
      This paper develops a simple game between the IMF a county and a set of atomistic private investors. The model is motivated by the case of Argentina. Under reasonable assumptions, the one shot game has no Nash equilibrium ...