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Efficient Diversification of International Investments: The Spanish Point of View
1999
The search for the best investments in a return-risk framework has led the investors to the portfolio diversification. The domestic markets liberalisation and a increasingly financial market integration, have made the investors to exceed the national barriers in order to get the international diversification of their portfolios.
The Full Protection and Security Standard in Investment Law: A Specific Obligation?
2019
This chapter aims to demonstrate that full protection and security and fair and equitable treatment are two different standards that don’t apply under the same circumstances and have different legal status. After a historical overview (Sect. 1) intended to show how the conflation between the two has emerged over the centuries, emphasis is put on the nature and the scope of application of the full protection and security standard when compared to the fair and equitable treatment standard (Sects. 2 and 3). The next section of the current chapter introduces the idea that full protection and security is to be read in light of another provision often found in international investment agreements:…
The European Union's Proposal for an International Investment Court: Significance, Innovations and Challenges Ahead
2016
International audience; Rampant discontent with the current system that governs the protection of international investment and the functioning of investment tribunals has led to a widespread view that there is an urgent need for reform. This is particularly pronounced in the context of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). The European Union (EU) has responded to this need by proposing the creation of an international investment court. With its political weight, the EU confers unprecedented legitimacy on the critics of the current ISDS system and reveals investment dispute settlement in the light of public international law, breaking with its background in commercial litigation. The art…
Identidades docentes en Paraguay: investigación educativa basada en artes
2021
En este trabajo presentamos los resultados del proyecto Mujeres Maestras, un proyecto de investigación internacional con quince años de trayectoria, que busca, mediante las artes, elaborar un discurso visual que se convierte en homenaje al colectivo de las maestras. Tras presentar las características de esta investigación basada en las artes y la trayectoria del proyecto a nivel internacional, nos centramos en el caso concreto de la experiencia del Paraguay. En Mujeres Maestras del Paraguay se presenta la creación artística como herramienta de construcción de narrativas personales y colectivas. El trabajo muestra una selección de piezas artísticas del proyecto, así como algunos relatos de l…
Attractiveness of Countries for Foreign Direct Investments from the Macro-Economic Perspective
Attractiveness and value adding characteristics of countries for Foreign Direct Investments usually are linked to new customers, upcoming demands, unsatisfied needs, competitive situations, etc. But they are also closely connected to macro-economic factors, which build the focus of this research praper. To make it more differentiable, those factors have been separated into five major dimensions: Political/Legal, Economic, Social, Technological and Intercultural Factors. Each of those factors consists of minimum five sub-factors which have been analyzed and taken into consideration. The aim is to find out, which factors influence the decisions for FDIs. If knowing that, stecific decisions ca…
The Value of Local Externalities in Country-of-Origin Clusters: Evidence from China
2019
Business cooperation and the exchange of information and knowledge are actions and decisions that firms can build in order to compete more effectively in globalized markets. These options are even more relevant for SMEs to access and expand in new international markets and through more commitment entry modes as foreign direct investment (FDI). While studies on the role of local externalities are well established in the Economic Geography literature, its international dimension is still unexplored in deep. This is surprising when the survival and growth of the subsidiaries depends on the efficient adjustment with its context. The objective of this paper is to analyse the perceptions of the r…
Dall'isola al mondo. L'internazionalizzazione leggera in Sicilia
2013
Si analizza il fenomeno dell'internazionalizzazione delle imprese siciliane mettendo a fuoco, attraverso una estesa survey, le caratteristiche dei principali protagonisti: le imprese e gli imprenditori
Difusión de experiencias con el modelo aula invertida. Descripción y análisis del Portal https://www.theflippedclassroom.es
2018
Actualmente, disponemos de muchísimos recursos en la red que podemos utilizar en nuestras aulas. Estos recursos deben combinarse con una acción pedagógica adecuada. Uno de los modelos que se está popularizando es el aula invertida (flippedclassroom). Es importante conocer bien el modelo para aprovechar todo su potencial. Para ello, analizaremos el espacio web www.theflippedclassroom.es, creado para la difusión de dicho modelo.Después de su análisis podemos comprobar la importancia de difundir las experiencias con el aula invertida en primera persona. También se plantean propuestas de mejora entorno a la accesibilidad de algunos recursos y la organización en la información recogida de las ex…
Psicothema
2010
La adicción al cibersexo constituye una «nueva patología» cuya prevalencia ha aumentado con rapidez en los últimos años, por lo que se precisa de instrumentos de evaluación validados. En este trabajo presentamos la adaptación y validación para su administración en población española del Internet Sex Screening Test (ISST). El instrumento fue administrado a 1.239 estudiantes universitarios españoles. Los resultados muestran cinco componentes que explican el 47,5% de la varianza. La consistencia interna es de 0,88 y la estabilidad temporal de 0,84. Por otro lado, el instrumento presenta una adecuada validez convergente y discriminante, mostrando la puntuación total una correlación positiva sig…
Transient Focal Neurological Events in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy and the Long-term Risk of Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Death: A Systematic Review …
2021
Importance Transient focal neurological episodes (TFNEs) are a frequently overlooked presentation of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a condition with prognostic implications that are still not well described. Objective To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the factors associated with incident lobar intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and death in patients with CAA presenting with TFNEs. Data Sources A systematic review and individual participant meta-analysis including (1) a hospital-based cohort and (2) the results obtained from a systematic search performed in MEDLINE and Embase completed in December 2019. Study Selection Included studies were observational reports of …