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This study introduces an earnings management dimension to compute premanipulated accounting performance to determine whether family-controlled firms have higher performance relative to non-family-controlled firms. Using a premanipulated return on assets measure for Chilean firms dataset, we find ...

This paper uses an institutional approach to examine the effect of regulations on entrepreneurial activity, comparing developed and developing countries. Through an unbalanced panel data set of 49 countries over the period 2001-2010 and using a combination of international databases we find a pos...

This paper analyzes whether family enterprises perform better than non-family enterprises, as found in previous studies on Chilean companies, based on the ownership structure of the business, which is an important factor in the literature on corporate governance that had not been taken into accou...

Medical practice implies the controversial encounter of diverse circumstances in which eventual conflicts between physicians and patients’ values as well as between physicians’ values and legal or institutional rules arise. When dealing with these situations, physicians have the right to refuse a...

We study the factors that may influence the attitude toward the risk of entrepreneurial activity and its impact on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. We proxy the attitude toward risk by using the answers to the fear of failing question contained in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor su...

We use Sias (2004) approach to decompose the correlation among investment strategies followed by pension funds administrators in the Chilean private pension fund system during the periods 1997-2001 and 2002-2005, and find that most of this correlation is explained by herding behavior. That is, fu...

Este trabajo revisa la ruptura de la relación profesional y personal de Sigmund Freud y Carl Jung, relacionándola con las etapas de los ciclos vitales de ambos, asi como con la historia del movimiento psicoanalítico y el contexto de la Europa de pre-guerra. Esos fueron años de reconocimiento públ...

El objetivo es analizar el gasto que se realiza en el área de la ciencia, tecnología y emprendimiento en nuestro país, tanto en recursos públicos como privados. Además sede analizar los factores que definen un medio ambiente apropiado para lograr un mayor nivel de eficiencia, el que a su vez infl...

The infant intestinal microbiota is often colonized by two subspecies of Bifidobacterium longum: subsp. infantis (B. infantis) and subsp. longum (B. longum). Competitive growth of B. infantis in the neonate intestine has been linked to the utilization of human milk oligosaccharides (HMO). However...