The paper’s objective is to identify the balance of risks that economic agents incorporate in oil and exchange rate markets (peso/US dollar). For that purpose, two methodologies that are normally used to estimate the expected risk-neutral probability functions for a determinate underlying...

The aim of this work is to explore the patterns of corporate governance in agricultural co-operative firms, where the suppliers are also the company owners. We raise the question of how they control management and what are the factors which limit managers’ actions to achieve the objectives of...

Bearing in mind the specific nature of co-operative societies, the Accounting and Auditing Institute (ICAC) has drawn up Draft Rules on co-operative accounting. After briefly running through the main new aspects these show versus National Accounting Plan (PGC) regulations we analyse the fiscal...

Los concursos de acreedores son procesos para proceder a la solución de situaciones de insolvencia, tanto en casos en los que se produce la continuidad futura de la empresa como en aquellos en los que su situación económico financiera aconseje su disolución. El procedimiento concursal está...

El principal objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los factores que desde la óptica del marketing y del entrepreneurship pueden favorecer el crecimiento internacional de las nuevas empresas internacionales. Concretamente, se plantea analizar cómo afecta la velocidad de internacionalización y...

The presence of seasonal fluctuations (regular behavior along the year related to weather or institutional factors) invalidates monthly (quarterly) comparisons. In turn, since inter-annual variations depend on the comparison basis being used, they could provide very little information to the...

In the present decade, in emerging economies such as those in Latin-America, mixed logistic models have been started applying to predict the financial failure of companies. However, there are limitations for the methodology linked to the feasibility of predicting the state of new companies that...

This paper presents a detailed explanation of the methodology to construct the Municipal Competitiveness Index 2013 for Mexico. The index is calculated using a methodology based on Factor Analysis and compares the performance of 96 municipalities belonging to 24 metropolitan areas in different...

The presence of seasonal fluctuations (regular behavior along the year related to weather or institutional factors) invalidates monthly (quarterly) comparisons. In turn, since inter-annual variations depend on the comparison basis being used, they could provide very little information to the...

This paper presents a detailed explanation of the methodology to construct the Municipal Competitiveness Index 2013 for Mexico. The index is calculated using a methodology based on Factor Analysis and compares the performance of 96 municipalities belonging to 24 metropolitan areas in different...