En este trabajo estudiamos las características y los determinantes de las desviaciones entre las cifras iniciales y finales de los ingresos y gastos públicos incluidos en los presupuestos generales del Estado en el período 1985-2006. Nuestro objetivo es evaluar el grado de cumplimiento del...

En el presente trabajo revisamos los principios de una popular estrategia de inversión basada en opciones financieras, en especial las opciones de venta (puts), y testeamos de manera estadística una estrategia de inversión basada en la compra venta de opciones de venta sobre un índice en el...

In 2008, the company Airbnb started its activity becoming the most representative tourism accommodation company from the sharing economy. Nowadays, it has more than 6.500.000 registered listings around the world. Previous literature examines hedonic models where Airbnb's prices are explained in...

The valuation of options and to a large extent the financial derivatives market require an optimal estimation of the volatility, since this is precisely the variable that is negotiated. We present then a statistical methodology for the estimation of the volatility parameter for an asset using...

This study analyses the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) effects on the macroeconomic dynamics of Bolivian economy. For this purpose, a Structural Vector Autoregression model (SVAR) is used. The results show the expected signs according to economic theory, which implies a positive effect of...

This study analyses the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) effects on the macroeconomic dynamics of Bolivian economy. For this purpose, a Structural Vector Autoregression model (SVAR) is used. The results show the expected signs according to economic theory, which implies a positive effect of...

The Chinese economy has become one of the most important consumers of a broad range of commodities. This work aims at measuring the impact of China’s expansion on commodity prices and illustrate its effect on Latin American economies. It is found a positi