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Tsunami En La Economía Mundial, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Tsunami En La Economía Mundial, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


¿Cuán Competitivo Es Ecuador?, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

¿Cuán Competitivo Es Ecuador?, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Acciones Vs Obligaciones, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Acciones Vs Obligaciones, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


”…No Cambian Por Rupturas…”, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

”…No Cambian Por Rupturas…”, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Inversión Extranjera Y Desarrollo Económico, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Inversión Extranjera Y Desarrollo Económico, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Calidad De La Gerencia, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Calidad De La Gerencia, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Amigo Ejemplar, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Amigo Ejemplar, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Notas Sobre El Cacao, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Notas Sobre El Cacao, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


Presentación De La Obra, Historia Marítima Del Ecuador Tomo Iv Época Colonial Siglos Xvi- Xix, De Mariano Sánchez, Guillermo Arosemena Jan 2012

Presentación De La Obra, Historia Marítima Del Ecuador Tomo Iv Época Colonial Siglos Xvi- Xix, De Mariano Sánchez, Guillermo Arosemena

Guillermo Arosemena

No abstract provided.


It Ain’T Necessarily So: The Misuse Of “Human Nature” In Law And Social Policy And Bankruptcy Of The “Nature-Nurture” Debate, 21 Tex. J. Women & L. 187 (2012))., Justin Schwartz Jan 2012

It Ain’T Necessarily So: The Misuse Of “Human Nature” In Law And Social Policy And Bankruptcy Of The “Nature-Nurture” Debate, 21 Tex. J. Women & L. 187 (2012))., Justin Schwartz

Justin Schwartz

Debate about legal and policy reform has been haunted by a pernicious confusion about human nature: and the idea that it is a set of rigid dispositions, today generally conceived as genetic, that is manifested the same way in all circumstances. Opponents of egalitarian alternatives argue that we cannot depart far from the status quo because human nature stands in the way. Advocates of such reforms too often deny the existence of human nature because, sharing this conception, they think it would prevent changes they deem desirable. Both views rest on deep errors about what kind of thing a “nature” …


L’Essor Et Le Déclin De L’Occident: Une Perspective Géographique (The Rise And Fall Of The West: A Geographical Perspective), Nicole Andréa Mathys, Jean-Marie Grether, Claude Lutzelschwab Jan 2012

L’Essor Et Le Déclin De L’Occident: Une Perspective Géographique (The Rise And Fall Of The West: A Geographical Perspective), Nicole Andréa Mathys, Jean-Marie Grether, Claude Lutzelschwab

Nicole Andréa Mathys

This paper proposes a new representation of the worldwide distribution of human population and economic activity over two millennia. Combining the Maddison and the G-Econ databases, it tracks the evolution of the world’s demographic and economic centers of gravity during the 1-2010 period. The distributional and temporal patterns that emerge are clear and contrasted, with a stable East- Asian predominance during the first eighteen centuries, followed by a boomerang-like westward shift during the last two centuries. New turning points are identified, suggesting that the reversal of the Western shift occurred as early as the 1920s in demographic terms and in …


Yeni Enerji Jeopolitiğinde Nato'nun Enerji Güvenliğinde Tamamlayıcı Rolü Ve Türkiye'nin Potansiyel Katkıları (Nato's Complimentary Role In Energy Security And Turkey's Potential Contributions At The New Energy Geopolitics ), Emre Iseri, Oguz Dilek Jan 2012

Yeni Enerji Jeopolitiğinde Nato'nun Enerji Güvenliğinde Tamamlayıcı Rolü Ve Türkiye'nin Potansiyel Katkıları (Nato's Complimentary Role In Energy Security And Turkey's Potential Contributions At The New Energy Geopolitics ), Emre Iseri, Oguz Dilek

Emre Iseri

Energy-related issues gained a prominent place within the NATO’s new strategic concept declared during the Lisbon Summit (November 20, 2010). This final strategic concept is to address two new sources of threat within the new energy geopolitics - ‘resource nationalism’ and ‘energy terrorism’ - which deeply concern those NATO members that require imported energy resources to meet their soaring domestic demand. Lisbon Summit to remove, if not alleviate, these security challenges tasked NATO with a set of specific roles. As a melting pot of the said two energy related risks, Turkey with its pledge to become the fourth energy artery …


El Mercado De Transporte Aéreo: Lecciones De Política De Una Revisión De La Literatura, Claudio A. Agostini Jan 2012

El Mercado De Transporte Aéreo: Lecciones De Política De Una Revisión De La Literatura, Claudio A. Agostini

Claudio A. Agostini

En la industria de transporte aéreo en Chile, existe hoy libre ingreso a los mercados, libertad de precios y una mínima intervención del estado. Sin embargo, la evolución de la industria ha generado discusión y preocupación pública en los últimos años respecto a qué tan competitivo es el mercado de transporte doméstico de pasajeros, especialmente en rutas donde opera sólo una aerolínea. Algunas de las preocupaciones y discusiones de política pública similares a las que existen hoy en Chile, han sido el foco de la literatura económica en el tema desde la regulación de los mercados aéreos a fines de …


La Incidencia Distributiva Del Impuesto A Las Gasolinas En Chile, Claudio A. Agostini, Johanna Jimenez Jan 2012

La Incidencia Distributiva Del Impuesto A Las Gasolinas En Chile, Claudio A. Agostini, Johanna Jimenez

Claudio A. Agostini

En este trabajo se analiza la incidencia distributiva del impuesto específico a las gasolinas en Chile, usando para ello la V y VI Encuestas de Presupuestos Familiares. La incidencia se calcula tanto respecto a la distribución de ingreso como de gasto, de tal forma de considerar las potenciales diferencia entre ingreso transitorio y permanente. Se estima el Índice de Suits como medida de la progresividad del impuesto y utilizando bootstrapping se calculan intervalos de confianza que permitan comparar estadísticamente cambios en la incidencia frente a cambios en el impuesto. Los resultados muestran que el impuesto es leve o moderadamente progresivo, …


Economies Of Scale And Merger Efficiencies: Empirical Evidence From The Chilean Pension Funds Market, Claudio A. Agostini, Eduardo Saavedra, Manuel Willington Jan 2012

Economies Of Scale And Merger Efficiencies: Empirical Evidence From The Chilean Pension Funds Market, Claudio A. Agostini, Eduardo Saavedra, Manuel Willington

Claudio A. Agostini

No abstract provided.


Interjurisdictional Capitalization Of A New Metro Line On Housing Values, Claudio A. Agostini, Gaston Palmucci Jan 2012

Interjurisdictional Capitalization Of A New Metro Line On Housing Values, Claudio A. Agostini, Gaston Palmucci

Claudio A. Agostini

Many governments continue constructing new subway lines with the goal of reducing congestion and pollution in large cities. Besides the potential global effects on reducing negative externalities in the city, there are some local positive effects in terms of lower commuting time and distance for residents living close to the subway stations. These benefits of the public transport services should capitalize totally or partially on housing prices. Most of the empirical work has estimated the effects on housing prices after the public transit infrastructure is operating and implicitly assumed homogeneous capitalization across jurisdictions. However, due to differences on local public …


Cultural Assimilation: The Political Economy Of Psychology As An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Dynamic, Atin Basu Choudhary, Dave Cotting Jan 2012

Cultural Assimilation: The Political Economy Of Psychology As An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Dynamic, Atin Basu Choudhary, Dave Cotting

Atin Basu Choudhary

In this paper, we model the interaction between idiocentric and allocentric immigrants in two settings – in a society that is predominantly collectivist and in a society that is predominantly individualist. Immigrants, either allocentric or idiocentric, can also be entity theorists (fixed mindset) or incremental theorists (growth mindset). We use evolutionary game theory to model how the host country cultural environment places selective pressure on the cultures of immigrant populations. This has implications for how well immigrants assimilate into their host country. Our results show: (a) depending on the initial ratio of allocentric and idiocentric immigrants, assimilation is either complete …


The Evolution Of Cooperation: How Patience Matters, Atin Basu Choudhary, Raja Mazumder, Vahan Simoyan Jan 2012

The Evolution Of Cooperation: How Patience Matters, Atin Basu Choudhary, Raja Mazumder, Vahan Simoyan

Atin Basu Choudhary

The evolution of cooperation has been the focus of much attention from evolutionary game theorists. Of course, conventional game theorists often cite the Folk Theorem to suggest that cooperation is very likely as long as people are patient. However, experimental and real world evidence of the Folk Theorem has been sparse. We investigate whether cooperation can evolve endogenously in a population where people have different patience levels. We motivate our model by asking the following question: why don’t biologists cooperate with each other by contributing to biological databases? We apply the Folk theorem from conventional game theory and assume that …


Jihadi Ideology In The New-Media Environment, Akil N. Awan Jan 2012

Jihadi Ideology In The New-Media Environment, Akil N. Awan

Dr Akil N Awan

No abstract provided.


Of Coyotes, Cooperation, And Capital: Social Capital And Women’S Migration At The Margins Of The State, Anna O. Oleary Jan 2012

Of Coyotes, Cooperation, And Capital: Social Capital And Women’S Migration At The Margins Of The State, Anna O. Oleary

Anna Ochoa OLeary

Examined here are some of the tenets of social capital in the context of the migrants’ crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without official authorization. Using this context helps identify how social capital development is weakened by the structural and gendered dimensions of migration, contributing to the rise in undocumented border crosser deaths since 1993.


Mixed Immigration Status Households In The Context Of Arizona’S Anti-Immigrant Policies, Anna O. Oleary, Azucena Sanchez Jan 2012

Mixed Immigration Status Households In The Context Of Arizona’S Anti-Immigrant Policies, Anna O. Oleary, Azucena Sanchez

Anna Ochoa OLeary

Although the seeds of legislated restrictions for immigrants can be traced to 1986 with California’s unsuccessful Prop 187, more recent trends epitomized by Arizona’s proposed Senate Bill 1070, signed by that state’s governor in April, 2010, have renewed concerns about the effects that such measures will have on the life and livelihood of communities that include immigrants present in the country without official authorization (“undocumented immigrants”). In this paper we use some of the results of a binational study of reproductive health care strategies to show how emerging anti-immigrant policies neglect how such policies impact mixed immigration status households, a …


Factores Que Determinan La Participación De Las Mujeres Inmigrantes En Actividades Por Cuenta Propia. Una Revisión Bibliográfica, Erika C. Montoya, Blas Valenzuela, Anna O. Oleary Jan 2012

Factores Que Determinan La Participación De Las Mujeres Inmigrantes En Actividades Por Cuenta Propia. Una Revisión Bibliográfica, Erika C. Montoya, Blas Valenzuela, Anna O. Oleary

Anna Ochoa OLeary

En este trabajo analizamos perspectivas teóricas que no ayudan a entender la participación de las mujeres inmigrantes en la creación de autoempleo, con el fin de lograr dos objetivos: primero, determinar los factores que llevan a las mujeres inmigrantes indocumentadas a convertirse en trabajadoras por cuenta propia, y Segundo, puntualizar las condiciones específicas de género que coadyuvan a enfocarse en estas actividades.


Hegemony And Power In The Global War On Terrorism, Anna Cornelia Beyer Jan 2012

Hegemony And Power In The Global War On Terrorism, Anna Cornelia Beyer

Dr. Anna cornelia Beyer

This chapter discusses the role and power of the United States in a world of globalisation and global governance after 9/11, and specifically in the years 2001–2008. Theoretically and empirically, the Global War on Terrorism served as the background to analyze how the United States uses its power in different forms to ‘govern’ the world in a hegemonic manner. While this governance is not comprehensive and all-encompassing, it is important in creating and influencing world affairs; it sets agendas and influences policy-making. Hegemonic governance and the use of a superior unipolar position in the international system are based on both …


Honor Bound: The Cultural Construction Of Honor In Turkey And The Northern Us, Ayse K. Uskul, Susan E. Cross, Zeynep Sunbay, Berna Gercek-Swing, Bilge Ataca Jan 2012

Honor Bound: The Cultural Construction Of Honor In Turkey And The Northern Us, Ayse K. Uskul, Susan E. Cross, Zeynep Sunbay, Berna Gercek-Swing, Bilge Ataca

Ayse K Uskul

We tested the hypotheses that Turkish and (Northern) American cultures afford different honor-relevant situations and different responses to these situations. In Study 1, we found that honor-attacking situations generated by American participants focused more on the individual than did situations generated by Turkish participants, whereas situations generated by Turkish participants focused more on close others and involved more references to an audience than did situations generated by American participants. Moreover, the situations most frequently generated by both groups tended to also differ in nature. In Study 2, new participants evaluated these situations for their impact on the self, close others, …


Transforming The Library Website, Amy C. York Jan 2012

Transforming The Library Website, Amy C. York

Amy York

A library website is not just a marketing tool, it is an extension of the library. The level of control that an external IT department wields over your web presence impacts how well you can respond to the needs of your remote users. Libraries should maintain as much control as possible over their websites, preferably by hosting them on their own servers.


Human Rights And Illicit Trade In Cultural Objects, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak Jan 2012

Human Rights And Illicit Trade In Cultural Objects, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak

Movable cultural heritage is not bounded nor shielded by national territorial borders. Applicable domestic laws are of limited import without the cooperation of other states and the international community. Despite a century of domestic legal protection of movable cultural heritage in many states, widespread non-compliance and lack of enforcement has been the norm rather than the exception. However, the tide is turning. States formerly reluctant to ratify cultural heritage treaties have done so, signalling their acceptance of the importance of multilateral action in this field. Enforcement of such laws is viewed as part of the reinforcement of good governance, rule …


The Scramble For Lugard House: Ethnic Identity Politics And Recurring Tensions In Kogi State, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji Jan 2012

The Scramble For Lugard House: Ethnic Identity Politics And Recurring Tensions In Kogi State, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji

Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji

Successive Nigerian constitutions have always sought to legally prevent identities such as ethnic, religion, and regionalism from being the basis of political organisation and contest for state power. In Kogi state, Nigeria, the reality of the situation has been, however, far from its outward appearance. This is because, ethnic identity politics have not only proved to be resilient, but a in a wave of resurgence, have fast become a common feature in its body politics leading to incessant ethno-factionalism and tension in the state. This article explores the linkage between the nature of Nigerian democracy, ethnic identity politics, and escalating …


Boko Haram And The Recurring Bomb Attacks In Nigeria: Attempt To Impose, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji Jan 2012

Boko Haram And The Recurring Bomb Attacks In Nigeria: Attempt To Impose, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji

Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji

Attempt to forcefully impose religious ideology and or belief on Nigeria’s secular society is not new. The leader of the Maitatsine sectarian group attempted it in 1981 and eventually led to large scale uprisings. Since the early 1980s and 2012, Nigeria has witnessed other uncountable religious related crises. Beginning from 2009, the country once again, has been stormed by large scale and unimaginable bomb attacks by the Boko Haram movement. Although Boko Haram can be compared in terms of philosophy and objectives to the Maitatsine sectarian group, its organisational planning, armed resistance, and modus operandi is Taliban and attacks executed …


Normative Approaches To Ethnic Recognition And Accommodation:Their Applicability To The Nigerian Experience, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji Jan 2012

Normative Approaches To Ethnic Recognition And Accommodation:Their Applicability To The Nigerian Experience, Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji

Ali Simon Yusufu Bagaji

This article explores the central theme in the normative philosophy arguments of Michael Walzer; Charles Taylor; and Will Kymlicka and their applicability to the state building processes and constitutional politics in Nigeria. The main argument of these scholars is that, in a multicultural society, equality and justice; unity and stability are likely to prevail if state building and constitutional processes of a country recognises and accommodates ethnic diversity. Critically applied, the article observes that since liberal democratic values are not well rooted in the Nigerian body politics, the specifi city of the Nigerian state would have to be recognised for …


Laos And The Greek Extreme Right Since 1974, Antonis A. Ellinas Jan 2012

Laos And The Greek Extreme Right Since 1974, Antonis A. Ellinas

Antonis A. Ellinas

No abstract provided.