Spanish Abstract: Las tres últimas décadas han sido testigo de un crecimiento constante de la inversión extranjera. La situación, sin embargo, parece que comienza a cambiar. La crisis económica de los últimos años y el acelerado proceso de liberalización de las economías que ha...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo muestra la evolución del beneficio, inversión y endeudamiento para el agregado de las sociedades no financieras (SNF) en España durante los años 2006-2013, a partir de la información contenida en las cuentas de sociedades no financieras de Contabilidad...

This paper studies the relationship between social-political and judicial factors and private investment in Latin America during 1995-2003 by means of panel data analysis. The empirical evidence suggests that investment rate differentials, not only among Latin American countries but also with...

Accounting and Financial methods are useful techniques for business, but their objective study should be inserted in the wider scope of Social Science. Historical issues determine policies and these ones, themselves, configure taxes and other environmental variables. Taxes, interest rates and...

The estimation of the sample size is a crucial part of the planning process of a survey and it can be accomplished in different ways, some of them require information not available or that may be obtained with a substantial cost. The estimation of the sample size can be done by using the design...

In the estimation of proportions using simple random sampling, the maximum value of the variance can be used to compute the sample size when there is no information of the variable of interest. We extend this result to the estimation of proportions under two-stage cluster sampling with equal...

In stratified sampling there are designs with one unit selected per stratum or when one is willing to make estimations on unplanned domains with one unit in some strata. In these cases the variance is generally estimated by the collapsed strata method, which requires identification of the strata...