The dynamics of oil prices in the past few years and their vertiginous rise observed during 2008 have captured the attention of academia and governments. This paper proposes an analysis of the petroleum market, making emphasis in the crude benchmarks WTI and Brent, the world reserves...

En este artículo, los autores pretenden mostrar y explicar cómo la Teoría de Lie se puede aplicar a la resolución de algunos problemas relativos a la Economía y a las Finanzas. Concretamente, se realiza un análisis de dos de esos problemas y se discuten tanto sus aspectos matemáticos como...

Migration has been a difficult phenomenon to measure because of its volatile characteristics and the number of models that explain the essential incentives of the process. In Bolivia there are few quantitative studies of international migratory movements, however, there are records that reflect...

Spanish abstract: En este artículo sometimos a escrutinio el concepto de “racionalidad”, como ejercicio de la razón. Conforme avanzamos en la investigación quedó claro que esa razón está fundada en un conjunto de valores y principios que le dan validez como decisiones correctas a...

Spanish Abstract: En el presente trabajo se estudia la existencia del efecto tamaño en los principales mercados bursátiles de América Latina (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México y Perú), mediante el análisis de la rentabilidad histórica de las empresas que cotizan en cada bolsa de...

Spanish Abstract: La hipótesis de mercado eficiente afirma que los cambios en los precios de un activo financiero siguen una caminata aleatoria y dependen de la información que se incorpora al mercado de manera instantánea, por tanto no son predecibles; por otro lado la hipótesis de mercado...

Migration has been a difficult phenomenon to measure because of its volatile characteristics and the number of models that explain the essential incentives of the process. In Bolivia there are few quantitative studies of international migratory movements, however, there are records that reflect...

This paper deals with the use of differential equations and finite difference methods for solving several problems in the field of Economics and Business Administration. Economics usually needs to study the evolution of the values which are taken by a given variable in different moments. If the...

The idea behind the methodology proposed in this paper is to show the utilities that it can offer, a software tool to make recommendations to the banking users when making a claim against a bad practice from their banks or wish to make an inquiry in order to ascertain the chances of a favorable...

The current work tests, in the dress sector in the center of the country, a methodology based in the theory of uncertainty and the fuzzy subsets, in order to build laws of possibilities for the retreat of clients only with the subjective opinion given by experts. The contribution of the present...