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    • Scale Efficiency Measurement in Data Envelopment Analysis with Interval Data: A Two-Level Programming Approach 

      Kao, Chiang; Lu, Shiang-Tai (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)
      Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) for measuring the relative efficiency of a set of decision-making units (DMUs) requires the observations to have precise values. When observations are imprecise and represented ...

    • Skewed Forward-Looking Monetary Policy Behavior: A Look at the Latin American Inflation Targeting Practice 

      Vega, Marco (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2010)
      Estimation of forward-looking interest rate rules is ubiquitous in the context of developed-economy central banks. In this paper, the five countries in Latin America that have adopted the Inflation Targeting framework are ...

    • Spillover Effects Among Gold, Stocks, and Bonds 

      Sumner, Steven; Johnson, Robert; Soenen, Luc (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2010)
      In this paper an attempt is made to document the interdependence among stocks, bonds and gold. Gold is an important asset class and has often been seen as a safe haven and counter-cyclical investment vehicle. We present ...

    • Subnational Competitiveness and National Performance: Analysis and Simulation for Indonesia 

      Tan, Khee Giap; Amri, Mulya (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)
      The stable growth of Indonesia’s economy over the past eight years has provided momentum for investment in the country. One of the approaches taken by the central government is to allow healthy competition between its ...

    • Towards Sustainable Offshore Outsourcing: A Case Study of Quebec Manufacturing Firms Outsourcing to China 

      Mohiuddin, Muhammad; Su, Zhan; Su, Albert (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2010)
      The offshore-outsourcing choice is viewed as a source of factory closures and job losses in many developed countries including Canada. The current exploratory paper using qualitative case study methods presents experiences ...

    • TQM Practices in Manufacturing and Service Companies in Peru 

      Pino, Ricardo M. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2008)
      The research study involved exploring how Peruvian companies use TQM practices and the differences in this use considering industrial sector and company size. Three hundred and sixty-three MBA students, middle managers of ...

    • U.S. News Spillover Effects: Sectoral Evidence 

      Nguyen, Anh Tho Thi (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2011)
      This paper is a study of the spillover effects of U.S. macroeconomic news on different sectors of the Australian stock market. We find that an indication of economic contraction from the United States raises the conditional ...

    • Understanding Employee Turnover Patterns in Mexican Maquiladoras 

      Romero, Eric; Cruthirds, Kevin W. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2009)
      Thousands of manufacturing jobs have left the United States for Mexico because of lower labor costs in relatively close proximity to the United States. Despite lower labor costs, high employee turnover can be a major problem ...

    • Unionized Oligopoly and Outsourcing 

      Melkumian, Arsen V. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2009)
      The interaction between labor unions and international competition has received a lot of attention. In the first decade of the 21st century, increasing number of companies in unionized oligopolistic industries has shifted ...

    • Using Random Forests and Logistic Regression for Performance Prediction of Latin American ADRS and Banks 

      Creamer, Germán G. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2009)
      In the paper, random forests and logistic regressions’ support of financial analysis functions’ predictive tool to forecast corporate performance and rank accounting and corporate variables according to their impact on ...

    • What Drives International Performance? Insights from Computer-Related Service Firms 

      Etemad-Sajadi, Reza; Bezençon, Valéry (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)
      The aim of this paper is to understand the drivers of international performance for service firms. Qualitative interviews and a literature review are used to build the model which is tested empirically on computer-related ...

    • The Work Adjustment Process of Expatriate Managers: An Exploratory Study in Latin America 

      Rivera, Ramon (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2008)
      The issue of work adjustment of expatriate managers is examined in this paper. The results confirm the existence of dimensions and factors widely discussed in international human resources management literature but also ...

    • Zen and Management Education 

      Phillips, Fred Y. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2009)
      Leadership and entrepreneurship professors routinely mention egolessness as a management virtue. Information technology companies use Zen imagery to tout the tranquility their solutions will engender. Lucent adopted the ...