Spanish Abstract: Los principales modelos financieros para la estimación del riesgo de mercado suponen que los rendimientosde los activos siguen una distribución Normal o se basan en la distribución empírica. Con frecuencia, elsupuesto de normalidad se da por hecho; sin embargo, resulta poco...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo principal del presente trabajo, es analizar el efecto que tiene la educación, la edad, el acceso a TIC's y activos físicos y financieros, además de otras características personales y socioeconómicas, en la probabilidad de ser trabajador por cuenta propia,...

El análisis empírico de la productividad de las infraestructuras se ha enfrentado a múltiples problemas econométricos que parecen estar detrás de la gran variabilidad en los resultados obtenidos en la literatura. Uno de esos problemas es la multicolinealidad existente al estimar los...

The Customer Lifetime Value (CLV ) concept has been highly used in the marketing area over the years. In this paper the authors present some useful extensions for the case of uncertain data. In particular, a CLV estimation with triangular fuzzy numbers (TFN) is introduced.

In order to provide a tool for risk management improvement and appropriate regulation, a methodology for measuring interest rate risk is applied in this paper. After estimating and simulating the interest rate term structure, the value at risk and expected shortfall are calculated on a...

The present document analyzes the energy substitution elasticities in the short and long term in Bolivia. The inputs accounted are electricity, hydrocarbons and biomass. In order to measure and identify the direction of the elasticities we use a Transcendental Logarithmic Production Function,...

In this paper we introduce two general non-parametric first-order stationary time-series models for which marginal (invariant) and transition distributions are expressed as infinite-dimensional mixtures. That feature makes them the first Bayesian stationary fully non-parametric models developed...

A large body of economic literature has established that the primary purpose of business is profit maximization assuming unitary and constant elasticity of substitution of production factors. However, the prevailing operating conditions of micro and small enterprises raise concerns about the...