La problemática del "cambio tecnológico" resulta de fundamental importancia para comprender la situación actual y perspectivas futuras de sectores económicos. Esto es especialmente cierto en el sector agropecuario, donde la biotecnología modifica en forma acelerada las opciones productivas con las cuales cuentan los empresarios. El caso argentino resulta notable.
Each company faces day to day investment opportunities. Just by staying in business the company is taking a decision of reinvesting. The question arising for those managers who have the responsability of allocating capital is the criteria they should use to differentiate between investment alternatives. The most proven, traditional and popular method of valuation is Discounted Cash Flow (henceforth DCF), which provides comparable information. This method requires both the assesment of expected future cash flows and a risk adjusted rate (used in the discount coefficient).
En este ensayo desarrollamos la idea del riesgo-país en la visión del autor, sintetizamos el pensamiento pionero de Arnold Harberger y los recientes progresos de Joshua Aizenman, hacemos un balance de las visiones del fenómeno, e ilustramos el nuevo enfoque mediante algunas aplicaciones. El nuevo enfoque valoriza el papel de la Historia, ofrece un método de análisis macroeconómico superior, y conduce a interpretaciones inesperadas y sugestivas sobre una cantidad de grandes temas de la realidad económica nacional.
Desde mediados de los setenta se han ido produciendo una serie de fenómenos que han tenido una influencia profunda e irreversible sobre el mundo del trabajo y sobre las instituciones y organizaciones que lo caracterizan.
It is our main concern in this paper to make for the following stages: a) Firstly, stock and flow differential rates will be introduced. Secondly, reverse differential rates are expanded on. Then, the transaction costs function will be featured. As long as we proceed with these issues, fully solved examples are supplied. b) Next, we handle direct applications to financial markets securities. Namely, time deposits, zero coupon bonds, foreign currencies. In each case, not only intuitive acquaintance with the subject is given, but foundations and examples as well.
Las prácticas horizontales concertadas consisten en acuerdos celebrados entre empresas competidoras dentro de un mismo mercado. Su objetivo puede ser diverso, y obedecer a motivos ligados con la eficiencia económica o a causas relacionadas con el ejercicio del poder de mercado.
In this paper we compare the distributions of ADR returns and the returns of the locally traded shares between Chile and Argentina. This comparison is interesting because both countries are emerging economies with a similar free market orientation. Both countries have similar free market orientation, but they differ in two important respects: (1) exchange rate regime and (2) restrictions to foreign investments. We find several differences between the two economies.