The majority of published studies about the relation between institutional and entrepreneurial factors lack of an adequate empirical study. Due to the importance that the institutional environment has acquired in the last few years, we consider necessary a rigorous analysis using quantitative...

Access to information on competencies demanded by companies may be performed by a prospective study of job offers posted by employers. But, these include a large amount of quantitative and qualitative but mainly textual data, so an appropriate approach should be chosen in order to obtain a...

This paper evaluates five Nowcasting models that forecast Mexico's quarterly GDP: a Dynamic Factor Model (MFD), two Bridge Equation Models (BE) and two Principal Components Models (PCA). The results indicate that the average of the BE forecasts is statistically better than the rest of the models...

Es objeto de discusión si la política de incentivos destinada al sector minero es o no conveniente. Los partidarios defienden que gracias a esta los municipios tienen mayores oportunidades para desarrollarse, mientras que los detractores argumentan que no tiene sentido orientar recursos hacia...

La comparación de encuestas presenta problemas metodológicos recurrentes, dentro de los que destacan particularmente: i) las dificultades asociadas a la falta de continuidad, bien por el añadido de nuevas preguntas o por la eliminación de otras; ii) las dificultades propias en la selección...

The objective of the article is to carry out a review of the subject of composite indicators, especially that related to the methodological process associated with their construction, detailing and discussing the various steps linked to said process, using the construction of the Competitive...

Multivariable capacity index have been used frequently in the manufacturing industry and similar environments, since they provide quantitative measurements of the potential and performance of a process described by multiple quality characteristics susceptible to evaluation and correlated...

The set of quantitative methods and techniques used to detect assignable variations in manufacturing processes are contained within a discipline classified as statistical process control. Such methods carry out precise evaluations on the general state of productive systems and carry out...

The socioeconomic situation of European coalfields is highly heterogeneous. On the one hand, successful examples comprise regions that long ago embraced internationalization, innovation and/or restructuring strategies. In those regions where the aforementioned strategies were fruitful, the...

In this work we present an alternative approach to the usual graphics of time series for its comparative exploratory analysis. By having several time series measures in various contexts, we suggest its structure in multiple tables to study adequately their similarities and differences. The...