This article reviews the treatment of the concept of variables in empirical research in economics. It incorporates ideas from other quantitative areas, and are arranged in a conceptual framework. We present a taxonomy of the variables and discusses methodological issues that arise from it. We...

This paper is aimed at assessing the impact of deregulation initiatives on the recent performance of Mexico’s airline industry. By doing so, three econometric models are estimated with the view of differentiating the weights of deregulation variables from the ones of non-deregulation...

In this paper we present a original proposal of the methodological and the epistemological aspects of the Business Economics. Furthermore, this paper presents a original classification of Business Economics based on an original proposal about strong form, semi-strong form and weak form of...

Organizational classifications approach is a very useful research method in organizational field. However, the results of the studies are not consistent. This situation argues about its usefulness. We think that many if this problems can be explained by methodological problems. Present paper...

Models of Bounded Rationality are often seen as more realistic than the traditional alternatives based on the fully-rational homo economicus, assumed by Expected Utility Theory (EUT). In his seminal paper on Bounded Rationality Simon (1955) pictured a decision maker as having computational...

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...