Economy

Javier Mella, an academic from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, was awarded the II UANDES-UFRO Interdisciplinary Associative Research Contest to measure how large-scale tree burning affects the economic performance of agricultural companies.

Isabela Munévar, researcher at the School of Economics and Business Administration, analyzes the impact of the "walking school bus" system developed in Bogotá (Colombia) and also the use of public resources in Chilean education.

Juan Sotes, an academic from the School of Economics and Business Administration, studies how remuneration and valuation mechanisms affect mutual and pension fund investment decisions and their impact on price formation and market volatility.

Javier Pinto, professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, is preparing the publication of two books and is leading international initiatives that seek to deepen the role of virtues and good practices within the company.

Ana Elisa Pereira, academic vice-dean of the School of Economics and Business Administration, studies how prices in financial markets influence the decisions of companies and governments, with implications for economic growth, regulation and the stability of countries.

Vincent Van Kervel, an academic and researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, analyzed the impact of an SVS regulation that encouraged companies to hire financial intermediaries.

Researchers from the Universidad de los Andes and the PUCV are working together to validate and transfer an AI-based technological platform to support the processing of projects in the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA).

Francisco Morales, a professor at the School of Economics and Business Administration, states that he seeks to show how immigration redefines the strategic decisions of organizations and their competitiveness.

Felipe Aldunate achieves an important academic milestone by publishing a study on the impact of pension funds on the Chilean foreign exchange market in one of the world's most influential finance journals.

At the seminar on the financing of higher education, organized by the Human Development Lab of Universidad de los Andes, experts discussed aspects of the FES, the government's new proposal.