In 1891 Baron Maurice de Hirsch founded the Jewish Colonization Association (J.C.A.), which was to become one of the largest philanthropic firms of their time, conducting a gigantic experiment in social welfare consisting in the organized immigration of thousands of people from the Russian...

El desarrollo de proveedores es una actividad que enriquece la gestión de la cadena de suministro, dotándola de mayor valor a través del aporte mutuo entre empresas clientes y subcontratistas. Este aporte incluye nuevas tecnologías, know-how, herramientas de la calidad y organización del...

Colonia Mauricio, cercana a Carlos Casares, Provincia de Buenos Aires, se estableció en 1891 sobre las primeras tierras adquiridas por la Jewish Colonization Association (J.C.A.) en nuestro país y, por lejos, las más fértiles. En relación a este hecho, el Informe de 1902 de los Inspectores...

This paper uses the Z-transform to develop a method for solving the linearized multidimensional discrete-time systems, which can be used to discuss the e¡èects of policies on economy (including the welfare gains and initial e¡èects on economy) raised by multi-sector...

In this paper, I offer a Schumpeterian model on the rise and decline of nations and empires. The model sheds light on why different nations can reach very different equilibrium states in terms of economic strength and military prowess, how the initial condition, the chance of military campaign,...

Under asymmetric information, dishonest sellers lead to market unraveling in the lemons model. An additional cost of dishonesty is that language becomes cheap talk. We develop instead a model where people derive utility from actions (what they say), as well as from outcomes, so talk is costly....

Data for around 100 countries from 1960 to 1990 are used to assess the effects of inflation on economic performance. If a number of country characteristics are held constant, then regression results indicate that the impact effects from an increase in average inflation by 10 percentage points...