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Sen y Aristóteles. Razón práctica y economía

Crespo, Ricardo (Cuadernos Empresa y Humanismo, 111, Instituto de Empresa y Humanismo, Universidad de Navarra, 2010, 98 pp.., 2010)

Una tesis central de este texto es que los fines de la acción y la razón práctica están retornando a la Economía a través del “enfoque capacidades” (capability approach, CA) para el análisis de la pobreza, la igualdad y ...

Small and medium enterprises financing in Eastern Europe.

Sarria Allende, Virginia; Klapper, Leora; Sulla, Victor (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No.2933, Washington., 2002)

There is currently a large interest in understanding firms' percentage of total employment) in Eastern European access to finance, particularly in the financing of small- countries is smaller than in most developed ...

Sobre las causas de la crisis.

Crespo, Ricardo (Cultura Económica, 2008/Mayo 2009 Año XXVI/XXVII-N°73-74: 28-30.Centro de Estudios en Economia y Cultura Universidad Católica Argentina., 2009)

Más allá de la postura de ontología social que se adopte (individualista u holista) está claro que los fenómenos sociales son, al menos, fenómenos complejos. Por eso, cualquier análisis de la actual crisis financiera y ...

The Social License to Operate in the Latin American Mining Sector: The cases of Bajo de la Alumbrera and Michiquillay

Zamprile, Alejandro; Llorente, Ariel (22nd Annual International Association of Conflict Management Conference, 2009)

In this extended abstract we intend to show that, in several of the Latin American (LA) countries, the outcomes that may derived from the interactions between Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and the ever widening variety ...

Strengthening Cartwright’s Epistemological Positions through Aristotelian Arguments Otro título: Nancy Cartwright, millian and/or aristotelian

Crespo, Ricardo (Sapientia (F. de Filosofía, UCA), 2009)

There is renewed interest concerning the relevance of Aristotle’s thought for contemporary science. This is especially true regarding the political, moral and economic aspects of human life and society. Aristotelian insights ...

A teleological causal mechanism for economics. Socio-economic machines.

Crespo, Ricardo (In A. Lazzarini & D. Weisman (eds.), Perspectives on Epistemology of Economics. FCE, UBA 2012, 123-138., 2012)

In the last years, given the problems of the so-called ‘received view’, a new kind of explanation has appeared in the realm of the philosophy of science, the causal mechanism explanations. This kind of mechanism has been ...

Theoretical and Practical Reason in Economics. Capacities and Capabilities

Crespo, Ricardo (Springer Briefs in Philosophy, 2012)

The aim of this book is to argue in favor of the usefulness of restoring the exercise of theoretical and practical reason in economics. The book presents some of Nancy Cartwright and Amartya Sen’s ideas as instances of ...

Theory and practice of corporate finance: Evidence and distinctive features in Latin America

Preve, Lorenzo; Sarria Allende, Virginia; Maquieira, Carlos (Emerging Markets Review, 2011)

We survey 290 LATAM firms on capital budgeting, cost of capital and capital structure issues. We analyze the results and compare them to those of other studies. We interpret differences according to special features ...

Thinking about the financial and economic crisis: Some brief notes on its causes and remedies

Crespo, Ricardo ("Think, 8 , pp 97-103 doi:10.1017/S1477175609990042 ", 2009)

An economic crisis is an unexpected phenomenon with strong consequences for nations, institutions and people’s wealth, habits, and behaviors. It departs from the ‘normal’ evolution of the affairs foreseen by economic theory. ...

Three Arguments Against Menger’s Suggested Aristotelianism

Crespo, Ricardo (Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, 2003)

Specialists often maintain that Menger has been strongly influenced by Aristotle’s thought ideas. This paper shows that although using Aristotle’s categories and general framework there are some issues in which Menger’s ...

Trade credit and bank credit: Evidence from recent financial crises

Preve, Lorenzo; Inessa, Love; Sarria-Allende, Virginia ("Financial Market Development and emerging and transition economies. Hyderabad, India. ", 2003)

This paper studies the effect of financial crises on trade credit for a sample of 890 firms in six emerging economies. Although the provision of trade credit increases right after a crisis, it contracts in the following ...

Trade Receivables Policy of Distressed Firms and its Effect on the Cost of Financial Distress

Preve, Lorenzo; Molina, Carlos (Financial Management, 2009)

This paper studies the trade receivables policy of distressed firms as the trade-off between the firm's willingness to gain sales and the firm's need for cash. We find that firms increase trade receivables when they have ...

The transformative capabilities of mediation on strenuous Labor-Management relation. An exploratory case study within the Telecommunications Sector in an emerging economy

Luchi, Roberto; Llorente, Ariel (23rd Annual IACM Conference Paper, 2010)

This paper examines how and why a mediation process may transform an antagonistic labormanagement relation, in two post-privatized telecommunications companies in an emerging economy, and make it evolve from severe ...