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WACC ajustado por riesgo de crédito en el sector retail: evidencia para Grupo Éxito y Cencosud
(Universidad EAFIT; Maestría en Administración Financiera; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2015)El costo promedio ponderado de capital (WACC) es una de las variables fundamentales en las finanzas corporativas -- Este costo se ve altamente afectado por el uso que se le dé a las diferentes fuentes de financiación, pero ... -
Walter Benjamin y su interpretación de Franz Kafka
(Universidad EAFIT; Maestría en Hermenéutica Literaria; Escuela de Ciencias y Humanidades. Departamento de Humanidades, 2016)En 1934 Walter Benjamin publicó un artículo titulado: “Franz Kafka -- En el décimo aniversario de su muerte”, en el cual el crítico alemán desarrolla algunos de los aspectos más relevantes de la obra del escritor checo -- ... -
Walter Benjamin: dispersion and education in the contemporary era
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WANT EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION? EDUCATE THE KIDS FIRST
(Western Economic Association International, 2015-10)This paper uses Bayesian model averaging to uncover the true determinants of export diversification among 36 potential factors, and thus 236 potential models. Using data from 2001 to 2010, our results reveal two strong ... -
Watergate, estaba Míster Pinocho mal herido : es un merengue 11
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Wave propagation in a phase transforming cellular material
(Universidad EAFIT; Maestría en Ingeniería; Escuela de Ingeniería, 2016)The aim of this project is to explore the wave propagation properties in a phase transforming cellular material suitable for energy dissipation applications -- We pretend to understand how to control the dispersion behavior ... -
Wavelet-Petrov-Galerkin Method for the Numerical Solution of the KdV Equation
(Hikari; Grupo de Investigación Análisis Funcional y Aplicaciones; Escuela de Ciencias y Humanidades, 2012)The development of numerical techniques for obtaining approximate solutions of partial differential equations has very much increased in the last decades. Among these techniques are the finite element methods and finite ... -
Waves and determinants in the activity of Mergers and Acquisitions: The Case of Latin America
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Web 2.0 para la Biblioteca Digital de Nueva Generación (BDNG)
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Welfare gains of the poor: An endogenous Bayesian approach with spatial random effects
(Universidad EAFIT; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2015-07-07)We introduce a Bayesian instrumental variable procedure with spatial random effects that handles endogeneity, and spatial dependence with unobserved heterogeneity. We find through a limited Monte Carlo experiment that our ... -
Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil Right? A reconciliation of the Micro and Macro Effects of Schooling on Income.
(2011-10-03)The marginal product of human capital in Mankiw, Romer, and Weil’s [1992] augmented Solow model measures the direct and two external effects of human capital created from schooling on national income. If this model is ... -
Were Mankiw, Romer, and Weil right? A reconciliation of the micro and macro effects of schooling on income.
(Cambridge University, 2013-07)In Mankiw, Romer, and Weil's augmented Solow model [Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (2) 407–437 (1992)], the marginal product of human capital accrues to three factors of production: directly to human capital, and as ... -
What do you say and how do you say it: Information disclosure in Latin American firms
(Universidad EAFIT; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2016-10-01)Firms in Latin America could differentiate themselves by adopting better information disclosure practices. In this paper, we construct an Information Disclosure Index (IDI) for a sample of 454 firms in the six largest Latin ... -
What is the effect of sample and prior distributions on a Bayesian autoregressive linear model? An application to piped water consumption
(Universidad EAFIT; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2014-07-23)In this paper we analyze the effect of four possible alternatives regarding the prior distributions in a linear model with autoregressive errors to predict piped water consumption: Normal-Gamma, Normal-Scaled Beta two, ... -
Where the wild things are, de Maurice Sendak: la revolución en la moraleja del cuento de hadas
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Which team will win the 2014 FIFA World Cup? A Bayesian approach for dummies
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Who knows better in an Emerging Market? Performance of Institutions, Foreigners and Individuals.
(Universidad EAFIT; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2015-12-01)We find that local investors do better than foreigners in terms of trading execution. However foreign investors obtain better returns than local individuals both in short and long term. Local institutions are the best ... -
Why Aid is Unpredictable: An Empirical Analysis of the Gap Between Actual and Planned Aid Flows
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2015)Aid flows continue to be volatile and unpredictable, even though it is widely accepted that this erodes the effectiveness of foreign aid. We argue that fragmented donor–recipient relationships, notably the large number of ... -
Why has the literature on corporate governance and firm performance yielded mixed results?
(Universidad EAFIT; Escuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2014-01-01)
