Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra: Recent submissions
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Monitoring Public Company Rankings for Investment Decisions: Are They Undervalued or Overvalued?
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)This study proposes a novel framework to monitor the rankings of public companies that are released periodically by worldwide business organizations. With different ranking rationales and diverse indicators, the released ... -
The Evolving Role of Reserve Requirements in Monetary Policy
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)The design of monetary policy has been a subject of debate in the specialized literature. Over the last three decades, this literature has moved from questioning the very existence of reserve requirements (RRs) to analyzing ... -
The Lending Interest Rates in the Microfinance Sector: Searching for its Determinants
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)Using data from 1299 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 84 countries and following different approaches, it was found the lending interest rate is determined by the funding cost, the loan size, and the efficiency level ... -
Evaluating the Efficiency of Turkish Banks: A Risk and Profitability Approach
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)Conventional performance indicators, especially after recent financial restructuring initiatives, are criticized more than ever for not associating performance and risk. The purpose of this study is to benchmark performance ... -
Longitudinal and Comparative Perspectives on the Competitiveness of Countries: Learning from Technology and the Telecom Sector
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)Country competitiveness is gaining importance across the world in the face of complex economic challenges. There is a need to revisit factors of competitiveness and evolve better evaluation methods. The linkage between ... -
From Productivity Strategy to Business Case: Choosing a Cost-Effective Intervention for Workplace Innovations
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)The article presents an approach to developing cost-effective interventions for workplace innovations for entrepreneurs who seek to enhance the productivity of an organization. The business case method is used to extend ... -
Public Pension Governance and Asset Allocation
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)This paper analyses the relationship between governance, asset allocation, and risk among state and local government-operated pension systems in the United States of America. It is argued that governance influences investment ... -
Estimating and Explaining the Financial Performance of Property and Casualty Insurers: A Two-Stage Analysis
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)The purpose of this study is to estimate and explain the performance of non-life (i.e., property and casualty) insurers. The analysis consists of two stages. First, we propose the use of a multicriteria method to assess ... -
The Effects of Trade Expansion: Poverty and Inequality in Post-NAFTA Mexico
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)This paper illustrates how microeconometric techniques can be used to uncover the micro dynamics behind macro shocks. Our model’s results are used to generate a scenario where the Mexican economy experienced the negative ... -
Entrepreneurial Skills, Significant Differences between Serbian and German Entrepreneurs
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)An extensive literature review reveals various authors acknowledge skills have an impact on entrepreneurial success. However, a lack of consensus regarding the main skills an entrepreneur needs is apparent. In this study, ... -
Efficiency Determinants and Dynamic Efficiency Changes in Latin American Banking Industries
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2013)This paper investigates the determinants of efficiency and dynamic efficiency changes across Latin American banking industries during recent periods of financial liberalization. Allocative, technical, pure technical, and ... -
An Organizational Capability-Based Performance Measurement Model for Technology Conversion Process
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)The capabilities reconfiguration theme is presented in contemporary literature as a useful approach to business-model adjustment for the conversion of new technologies into processes, products, and services. This work ... -
Accountability and Performance Measurement: A Stakeholder Perspective
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Accountability and management accounting have strong links, especially around performance reporting. Many approaches, such as the balanced scorecard and Ramanathan’s (1985) accountability framework, stem from management ... -
What Drives International Performance? Insights from Computer-Related Service Firms
(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 ... -
Evaluating Recycling Sustainability Performance of E-waste Products
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)This paper develops a new performance evaluation approach for evaluating the relative recycling sustainability performance of e-waste products in terms of their contribution to the corporate sustainability of an e-recycling ... -
An Analytical Approach to Predict the Performance of Thoracic Transplantations
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Predicting the performance of planned organ transplantation has proved to be a critical problem to solve. The purpose of this study is to present a data mining-based model for variable filtering and selection in order to ... -
Recession and Family Firm Performance: An Assessment of Small U.K. Family-Owned Hotels
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)The prevailing view in the literature is that small family firms outperform nonfamily businesses. The nature of the former’s management style also means that these businesses are more likely to sustain their performance ... -
Assessing Knowledge Assets in Technology-Intensive Firms: Proposing a Model of Intellectual Capital
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)Knowledge assets are key organizational factors responsible for gaining a sustained competitive advantage in the new knowledge economy characterized by high degrees of environmental turbulence, complexity, and dynamism. ... -
Option Pricing Models with HF Data: An Application of the Black Model to the WIG20 Index
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)In this paper, we compared several Black option pricing models by applying different measures of volatility and examined the Black model with historical (BHV), implied (BIV), and several different types of realized (BRV) ... -
Researching Multilevel Phenomena: The Case of Collaborative Advantage in Strategic Management
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. CENTRUMPE, 2012)A number of literatures in management, innovation studies, economic geography, and so on point to 'collaborative advantages' that can arise at multiple levels. We discuss conceptual, theoretical and methodological difficulties ...