Although increasingly complex risk assessment tools are being marketed, little is known about "real world" practitioners' capacity to score them accurately. In this study, we assess the extent to which 78 staff members' scoring of juveniles on the California-Youth Assessment and Screening Instrument (CA-YASI; Orbis Partners, Inc., 2008) agree with experts' criterion scores for those cases. Ther...

Productivity growth in Italy has been persistently anemic and lagged that of the euro area over period 1999-2015, while indebtedness its corporate sector increased. Using ORBIS firm-level database, this paper studies long-term impact persistent corporate-debt accumulation on productivity Italian firms investigates whether total factor varies with level indebtedness. We employ a novel estimation...

Abstract High-growth enterprises (HGEs) have a large economic impact but are notoriously hard to predict. Previous research has linked high-growth episodes the configuration of lumpy indivisible resources inside firms, such that high capacity utilisation levels might stimulate future growth. We theorize firms reaching critically reach “trigger point” involving either broad-based investment in f...

Se relacionó la lógica de física cuántica con dos textos del escritor Jorge Luis Borges: Tlön Oqbar Orbis Tertius y La lotería en Babilonia. Los temas fueron los siguientes: El mundo cuántico viola el principio identidad, Borges Schrödinger coinciden que concepto identidad no tiene sentido para las monedas cuento partículas elementales físico, pues es diferente a indistinguibilidad, lógicos Da ...