(Inter) acciones para un nuevo orden nacional : La experiencia política de San Juan a partir de la Circunscripción Militar del Oeste y el Congreso durante la "Confederación" (1855-1858)

Se propone ampliar el registro analítico sobre el proceso de conformación del sistema político e institucional de la "Confederación" (1852-1862), atendiendo a las vinculaciones entre el poder central y San Juan. Se examinan las relaciones de negociación y conflicto que entretejieron la política de San Juan entre 1855 y 1858, al calor del desarrollo de una institución estatal nacional: la Circunscripción Militar del Oeste. Se considera en forma recíproca la articulación del poder central en el espacio provincial y los clivajes y sucesos locales y regionales que se generaron en dicho devenir. Se estudia la interacción entre el Jefe de la Circunscripción Nazario Benavides, los Gobernadores de San Juan y los poderes legislativo y ejecutivo nacionales. Además, se enmarca el tema en el proceso de institucionalización política provincial, con especial interés en la sanción de la constitución sanjuanina. Para ello, se conjuga el examen de la Circunscripción con el del Congreso con sede en la ciudad capital de la Confederación (Paraná/Entre Ríos), lo que permite proyectar las escalas analíticas de observación por fuera de la geografía sanjuanina. Se aborda así al Congreso como otro sitio institucional de cristalización de los conflictos y juegos de alianzas políticas provinciales y nacionales estudiadas.

Pares inter pares : Controversias acerca de la traducción de Horacio en la Argentina del Siglo XIX. El caso de la Revista de derecho, historia y letras

En la Argentina, el siglo XIX -fundante en cuanto a traducción literaria- resulta también pródigo en reflexiones sobre la praxis traslativa. Entre 1899 y 1900, Matías Calandrelli instaura la polémica acerca de las versiones de Horacio y la enseñanza misma del latín en la Revista de Derecho, Historia y Letras. El análisis focaliza la valoración de la controversia como generadora de traductología, el carácter performativo de las publicaciones periódicas que operan en la construcción de un conocimiento pedagógico y disciplinar de la lengua latina, y, asimismo, la resignificación de la tradición clásica en el campo letrado

(Inter) acciones para un nuevo orden nacional : La experiencia política de San Juan a partir de la Circunscripción Militar del Oeste y el Congreso durante la "Confederación" (1855-1858)

Se propone ampliar el registro analítico sobre el proceso de conformación del sistema político e institucional de la "Confederación" (1852-1862), atendiendo a las vinculaciones entre el poder central y San Juan. Se examinan las relaciones de negociación y conflicto que entretejieron la política de San Juan entre 1855 y 1858, al calor del desarrollo de una institución estatal nacional: la Circunscripción Militar del Oeste. Se considera en forma recíproca la articulación del poder central en el espacio provincial y los clivajes y sucesos locales y regionales que se generaron en dicho devenir. Se estudia la interacción entre el Jefe de la Circunscripción Nazario Benavides, los Gobernadores de San Juan y los poderes legislativo y ejecutivo nacionales. Además, se enmarca el tema en el proceso de institucionalización política provincial, con especial interés en la sanción de la constitución sanjuanina. Para ello, se conjuga el examen de la Circunscripción con el del Congreso con sede en la ciudad capital de la Confederación (Paraná/Entre Ríos), lo que permite proyectar las escalas analíticas de observación por fuera de la geografía sanjuanina. Se aborda así al Congreso como otro sitio institucional de cristalización de los conflictos y juegos de alianzas políticas provinciales y nacionales estudiadas.

Exploiting the Modularity of Value Chains: Inter-firm Dynamics of the Taiwanese Notebook PC Industry

This paper explores the inter-firm dynamics that govern the rise of capabilities of latecomer firms operating in global value chains. By extending and modifying the model proposed by Gereffi, Humphrey and Sturgeon [2005], I present a framework in which the rise of supplier capabilities is determined by interactions among the strategies of the firms. Based on a case study of the Taiwanese notebook PC industry, the paper will explore how the interactions among outsourcing strategies by lead firms from the developed countries, the learning strategies of Taiwanese suppliers, and the product strategy of powerful component vendors have driven the explosive growth of the industry after the 1990s. By so doing, the paper attempts to highlight the active roles firms play in determining the speed and direction of the rise in supplier capabilities.

Skill sorting, inter-industry skill wage premium, and production chains: evidence from India 1999-2000

This paper proposes a mechanism that links industry’s technological characteristics (i.e. quality of non-labor inputs, which is proxied by the length of industry production chains), industry-specific skill wage premium, and skill sorting across industries. It is hypothesized that high-skilled workers are sorted into industries where they can receive a higher skill wage premium, by working with better quality non-labor input. The quality of non-labor inputs is assumed to be worse in industries with longer production chains due to the increased involvement of low-skilled labor and poor infrastructure over the sequential production. By examining Indian wage and employment data for 1999-2000, empirical evidence to support this mechanism can be obtained: First, the skill wage premium is lower [higher] in industries with longer [shorter] production chains. Second, the skill wage premium is lower [higher] in industries with a higher [lower] proportion of low-skilled workers producing inputs outside their own industry. Third, the proportion of high-skilled workers is larger in industries with shorter production chains and lower ratio of low-skilled labor involved, i.e., a skill sorting trend can be observed.

China's inter-regional spillover of carbon emissions and domestic supply chains

In this study, we apply the inter-regional input–output model to explain the relationship between China’s inter-regional spillover of CO2 emissions and domestic supply chains for 2002 and 2007. Based on this model, we propose alternative indicators such as the trade in CO2 emissions, CO2 emissions in trade, regional trade balances, and comparative advantage of CO2 emissions. The empirical results not only reveal the nature and significance of inter-regional environmental spillover within China’s domestic regions but also demonstrate how CO2 emissions are created and distributed across regions via domestic production networks. The main finding shows that a region’s CO2 emissions depend on not only its intra-regional production technique, energy use efficiency but also its position and participation degree in domestic and global supply chains.

Directional imbalance of freight rates : evidence from Japanese inter-prefectural data

By analyzing a comprehensive dataset on transport transactions in Japan, we describe a directional imbalance in freight rates by transport mode and examine its potential sources, such as economies of density and directionally imbalanced transport flow. There are certain numbers of observed links which show asymmetric transport costs. Instrumental variable analysis is used to show that economies of density account for deviation from symmetric freight rates between prefectures. Our results show that a 10% increase in outbound transport flow relative to inbound transport flow leads to a 2.1% decrease in outbound freight rate relative to inbound freight rate.

Compilation of a regionally-extended inter-country input-output table and its application to global value chain analysis

Studies on the rise of global value chains (GVCs) have attracted a great deal of interest in the recent economics literature. However, due to statistical and methodological challenges, most existing research ignores domestic regional heterogeneity in assessing the impact of joining GVCs. GVCs are supported not only directly by domestic regions that export goods and services to the world market, but also indirectly by other domestic regions that provide parts, components, and intermediate services to final exporting regions. To better understand the nature of a country's position and degree of participation in GVCs, we need to fully examine the role of individual domestic regions. Understanding the domestic components of GVCs is especially important for larger economies such as China, the US, India and Japan, where there may be large variations in economic scale, geography of manufacturing, and development stages at the domestic regional level. This paper proposes a new framework for measuring domestic linkages to global value chains. This framework measures domestic linkages by endogenously embedding a target country's (e.g. China and Japan) domestic interregional input–output tables into the OECD inter-country input–output model. Using this framework, we can more clearly understand how global production is fragmented and extended internationally and domestically.

Inter-Packet Symbol Approach To Reed-Solomon FEC Codes For RTP-Multimedia Stream Protection

This paper presents an alternative Forward Error Correction scheme, based on Reed-Solomon codes, with the aim of protecting the transmission of RTP-multimedia streams: the inter-packet symbol approach. This scheme is based on an alternative bit structure that allocates each symbol of the Reed-Solomon code in several RTP-media packets. This characteristic permits to exploit better the recovery capability of Reed-Solomon codes against bursty packet losses. The performance of our approach has been studied in terms of encoding/decoding time versus recovery capability, and compared with other proposed schemes in the literature. The theoretical analysis has shown that our approach allows the use of a lower size of the Galois Fields compared to other solutions. This lower size results in a decrease of the required encoding/decoding time while keeping a comparable recovery capability. Finally, experimental results have been carried out to assess the performance of our approach compared to other schemes in a simulated environment, where models for wireless and wireline channels have been considered.