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Expanding Overseas: The Best Mid-Size Markets: Relatively stable and foreigner-friendly, these growing mid-size markets offer expansion opportunities in regions less vulnerable to the current global economic slowdown. .expansionPic { width:324px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; padding:5px 5px 0; background:#edece7; border:1px solid #d4d4d4; } * html .expansionPic { display:inline; margin-top:20px;} .expansionPic p...; Tags: Jennifer Alsever, Chile, Latin America, professor, free-trade agreement, U.S., risk assessment, electronics, survey, telecommunications, income, HTML, cell phone, photograph, phone; Articles 2008-04-21
Social Security, Fertility And Labor Supply: This paper explains the causes and dynamics of pay-as-you-go social security financial crises and its impact on a country's economic performance. Its main hypothesis is there exists a self-reinforcing vicious circle between the social security system, the fertility rate and labor supply. We argue that changes in the pay-as-you-go social...; Tags: Operational accounting, Social Security, financial, performance; White papers 2005-09-01
Business Process Patterns and Frameworks: Reusing Knowledge in Process Innovation: A common theme in the more recent Business Process (BP) literature is the search for approaches that allow formalizing domain knowledge into structures, patterns or frameworks, which can be reused to facilitate process redesign and support systems development. The objective of these structures explained in this paper is to simplify...; Tags: Operational planning, Strategy, business process, enterprise architecture, knowledge; White papers 2005-05-16
Preparing for the Future With mySAP ERP: As the provider for coins, bank notes, and public documents in Chile for almost 260 years, Casa de Moneda de Chile is repositioning itself as an international producer and service provider. To successfully compete in the global marketplace, Casa de Moneda realized that it needed an ERP system to provide...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, Customer relationship management (CRM), SAP AG, mySAP ERP, Chile, mySAP, ERP, ERP system, customer satisfaction, bank, tool; Case studies 2005-04-01
Angel Investors in Chile: The paper presents the results of interviews with angel investors and experts around the risk capital industry in Chile. It focuses on common practices in seed-stage and/or angel investing and on how have those approaches been shaped by the country's culture. The paper describes how angel investing works in Chile:...; Tags: Financing startups, angel investing, Chile, industry; White papers 2004-11-06

Electricity Reform in Chile: Lessons for Developing Countries: This paper traces the history of the Chilean reform, which began in 1982, and assesses its progress and its lessons. Chile was the first country in the world to implement a comprehensive reform of its electricity sector in the recent period. Among developing countries only Argentina has had a comparably...; Tags: Free trade, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chile, developing country; White papers 2004-09-01
Security & Vulnerability in Electric Power Systems: This paper discusses about the security of supply that has been always a key factor in the development of the electric industry. Adequacy, quality of supply, stability, reliability and voltage collapse along with costs have been always carefully considered when planning the future of the electric power system. Since 1982,...; Tags: agent, security, industry; White papers 2003-10-30
Labor Rights Report: Chile: This paper on labor rights in Chile has been prepared pursuant to section 2102(c) (8) of the Trade Act of 2002 ("Trade Act") (Pub. L. No. 107-210). Section 2102(c) (8) provides that the President. In connection with any trade negotiations entered into under this Act, submit to the Committee of...; Tags: U.S. Department of Labor, Chile, president, negotiation, finance; White papers 2003-07-08
The Impact Of Monetary Policy On The Bilateral Exchange Rate: Chile Versus The United States: This article examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch$/US$ exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to regress the change in the exchange rate following a policy announcement on changes in market interest rates in response to the same announcement. U.S. monetary...; Tags: Free trade, IMF, Chile, exchange rate, interest rate, U.S.; White papers 2003-04-01
Pricing and Marketing Rules With Brand Loyalty: This paper identifies a rule that represents the optimal resolution of this trade-off, in terms of an intuitive modification to the static Lerner rule. It finds that the "effective" price elasticity depends on the discount rate used by the firm, on the rate of depreciation of the clientele through exit...; Tags: Investment, Marketing research, elasticity, exit, brand loyalty, stock, pricing strategy, brand, marketing; White papers 2002-02-11

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Hedging Foreign Exchange Risk in Chile: Markets and Instruments: Policy makers have expressed interest in fostering the development of local foreign exchange derivatives markets with a view to reducing risks arising from currency mismatches between assets and liabilities in the corporate sector. This paper assesses foreign exchange exposure in the corporate sector in Chile, analyzes the current state of...; Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, IMF, foreign-exchange, Chile, asset, financial; White papers 2005-02-01
Metropolitan Transportation Planning in the 1990s: Comparisons and Contrasts in New Zealand, Chile and California: This article reviews major events and trends in metropolitan transportation planning and policy during the 1990s in three divergent Pacific Rim jurisdictions: New Zealand, Chile, and California. Major metropolitan areas in each country have seen rising motorization, increasing congestion, and privatization of transportation services. Devolution of transportation planning responsibility has...; Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., transportation, Chile, New Zealand, California; White papers 2005-02-12
Exchange Rates, Inflation and Monetary Policy Objectives in Open Economies: The Experience of Chile: This paper characterizes, empirically, the conduct of monetary policy in a small open economy. It finds evidence that the monetary authorities also react to real exchange rate misalignments. This reaction is comparatively larger than that found in developed economies. Finally, the evidence, although not conclusive, seems to suggest a non...; Tags: inflation, bank; White papers 2004-04-16
Social Security Reforms In Latin America: What Can The US Learn?: More than ten countries in Latin America have enacted reforms that have some things in common with what is being contemplated for the US - the partial privatization of social security. But these countries are very different from the US, and it is not easy to draw meaningful lessons for...; Tags: Operational accounting, World Bank Group, Social Security, Latin America; White papers 2005-12-26
Universal studios television USA cable networks: The Latin American group at USA Network in Miami was having trouble capturing viewers within the adult, 18-35 age-range and this was challenging their sales efforts in Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Initially, the USA Network marketing team asked us to help them generate positioning and concept statements that could...; Tags: Branding, TV & Home Theater, positioning, cable network, cable, team, TV, environment, sales, network; Case studies 2001-01-01
White Paper Progress Report - Chile: Based on the reform priorities of the Latin American White Paper on Corporate Governance, this paper provides comments regarding progress over the past three years, key developments, obstacles to progress, and priorities for further improvement. Steps should be taken to facilitate shareholder participation in General Meetings and voting of shares....; Tags: corporate governance, shareholder; White papers 2005-09-20
Payroll Taxes: In the Latin America region the average payroll tax is roughly 25% of gross wages. This is similar to the average for other developing countries, and below the 30% that characterizes the OECD group. At first sight, payroll taxes as a percentage of gross wages show a relatively small dispersion,...; Tags: Operational accounting, Stanford University, payroll, salary, developing country, benefit; White papers 2002-04-01
Introducing Study Abroad in a Multi-Disciplinary Setting: The Plus 3 Program is an optional three-credit study abroad opportunity offered jointly by the school of business and engineering as a follow-up to the freshman year. The course consists of a field study trips to a number of locations including: Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, France; or Germany. The...; Tags: IEEE, industry; White papers 2005-07-07
Entel PCS Leads the Way Chilean Telco Boosts Customer Loyalty With SAS: Transparent and very competitive, Entel PCS, the telecommunications industry, in Chile is the most advanced in Latin America. The company had the challenge to reduce customer churn in the competitive Chilean mobile phone market. SAS Customer Retention for Telecommunications helped Entel PCS maintain the lowest churn rate in the marketplace....; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, SAS Institute, telecommunications; Case studies
Insurance in Latin America: In an international comparison, Latin America is a relatively small but attractive insurance market, especially for life insurance. Premium volume in the region totaled around USD 39 billion in the year 2000, equivalent to a share of 2% in the region's gross domestic product and 1.6% of insurance business worldwide....; Tags: Financial Planning, Swiss Reinsurance Co., Latin America, insurance, life insurance, Y2K, income, compensation, health care; White papers 2002-06-06