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Meritocracy and Topocracy of Networks

Monday, 2 December, 2013 | Por
TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS, WHAT? In this project, a network market is studied mathematically, where individuals obtain resources from two channels: individual talent and intermediation benefits (by ...


CICS at the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation

Tuesday, 9 April, 2013 | Por
Miguel Angel Fuentes will deliver a Research Seminar on Long Range Correlations at the Center for Complexity and Collective Computation. The C4 is one of the research ...


Santa Fe Institute-UDD: Complex Systems Summer School Chile 2013

Tuesday, 12 March, 2013 | Por
Santa Fe Institute’s Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) —now in its 26th year—is the premier program in training graduate and postdoctoral fellows in the fundamentals and practice ...


Study InBroad

Tuesday, 20 November, 2012 | Por
If you are a young PhD or higher student in Chile and you are interested in topics related to CICS, contact us! We have flexible programs to ...


Social assistance programs and implicit taxes on the income of destitute and poor households: The case of Chile between 1990 and 2009

Monday, 30 July, 2012 | Por
Programas de asistencia social e impuestos a los ingresos indigentes y pobres: el caso de Chile entre 1990 y 2009. Ricardo Guzmán, Rodrigo Troncoso, 2012. ABSTRACT Social assistance programs that include ...


Life is good! We are accepting applications for one term sabbaticals

Wednesday, 11 July, 2012 | Por
We start a Sabbatical Program next semester for the purpose of opening our space, and the southern research community in general, to any professor who wants to interact ...


The Research area of Facultad de Gobierno (Government Faculty) UDD launches its first newsletter “Parámetro”

Tuesday, 10 July, 2012 | Por
"Parámetro" is the Newsletter of Research of Facultad de Gobierno (Government Faculty) of Universidad del Desarrollo, it aims to inform about the activities lead by the department ...


The economics of social stratification in premodern societies

Wednesday, 4 July, 2012 | Por
Robert Rowthorn, Ricardo Andrés Guzmán and Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2011. ABSTRACT We present a microeconomic model of social strati…cation, which includes an endogenous fertility component. In ...


We seek for a Research and PhD program coordinator

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
We are searching for a motivated coordinator of Research and PhD Program. If you are interested send us you CV and presentation letter. Estamos buscando un coordinador motivado ...


The reactive social brain

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
MORE FRIENDS, MORE COMMUNICATION, MORE INTELLIGENT. OR IS IT BACKWARDS? For animals that live in small groups, the costs of having a big brain outweigh its benefits. This ...


The human singularity in the mating choice

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
HASTA QUE LA EMPATÍA LOS SEPARE Once you are part of a species linked by couples, you have a problem: you have to choose someone. And we do ...


Three degrees of distance on Twitter

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
FOLLOW 4 FOLLOW This project analyzes the retweet as a contagious behavior to study distance the phenomenon of the three degrees of distance on Twitter. In their research, ...


Structure of the Moral Judgments in the General Population

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
KILL ONE OR SAVE FIVE? How do we decide what course to take in complex situations? Ricardo Guzmán studies the consistency of our intuitions against a parameterized moral ...


100 years after Alan Turing’s birth

Tuesday, 3 July, 2012 | Por
100 years passed since Alan Turing was born and in CICS UDD we want to honor this important event with 4 lectures. Beyond that, we intent to ...


Diversity emerging: from competitive exclusion to neutral coexistence in ecosystems

Monday, 22 August, 2011 | Por
Juan E. Keymer, Miguel Angel Fuentes and Pablo A. Marquet. Theoretical Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s12080-011-0138-9, 2011. ABSTRACT In this communication, we present a unifying framework to understand the emergence and ...


Beneficial effects of human altruism

Tuesday, 16 August, 2011 | Por
Mariana Lozada, Paola D'Adamo and Miguel Angel Fuentes. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 289, 12–16, 2011. ABSTRACT In this work we review converging evidence from several lines of research which ...


Non-gaussian price dynamics

Monday, 11 July, 2011 | Por
Miguel A. Fuentes,  Austin Gerig and Javier Vicente. Non-Gaussian Price Dynamics and Implications for Option Pricing, in Derivative Securities Pricing and Modeling: Contemporary Studies in Economics and Financial Analysis. Volume 94. ...


Navigating transformations in governance of Chilean marine coastal resources

Tuesday, 28 September, 2010 | Por
Stefan Gelcich, Terry P. Hughesb, Per Olsson, Carl Folke, Omar Defeo, Miriam Fernández, Simon Foale, Lance H. Gunderson, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Marten Schefferi, Robert S. Steneckj, and Juan ...


The Neolithic Revolution from a price-theoretic perspective

Monday, 9 August, 2010 | Por
Ricardo Andrés Guzmán and Jacob Weisdorf.  Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 96, N°2, pp. 209-219, 2011. ABSTRACT The adoption of agriculture during the Neolithic period triggered the first demographic ...


Product variety and the demographic transition

Thursday, 17 December, 2009 | Por
Ricardo Andrés Guzmán and Jacob Weisdorf. Economics Letters, Vol. 107, N°1, pp. 74–76, 2010. ABSTRACT Why does the rate of population growth decline in the face of economic growth? ...


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