Artículo de revista ; This article describes the main characteristics of the trade agreement reached between the European Union (EU) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) in 2019 and presents estimates of its possible impact on trade and GDP in the two areas." "It is an ambitious...

Este artículo estima el impacto del MERCOSUR sobre los flujos comerciales y el bienestar usando un modelo de gravedad estructural cuantitativo estándar. El impacto sobre los flujos de comercio bilateral y sobre el bienestar es altamente heterogéneo entre los países del MERCOSUR. El aumento...

La teoría económica sugiere incluir el comercio interno al estimar un modelo de gravedad estructural. Esta inclusión permite identificar parámetros que no pueden ser estimados si tomamos en consideración solamente los flujos de comercio internacional. Sin embargo, el comercio interno puede...

The statistical variance of total project cost is usually estimated by means of Monte Carlo simulation on the assumption that exact analytic approaches are too difficult. This paper tests that assumption and shows that, contrary to expectations, the analytic solution is relatively...

The research presented in this thesis addresses different aspects of dynamic portfolio construction and portfolio risk measurement. It brings the research on dynamic portfolio optimization, replicating portfolio construction, dynamic portfolio risk measurement and volatility forecast together....

Pecans (Carya Illinoinensis [Wangenh] K. Koch) are a native food of North America andrepresent a high economic crop value in the north of Mexico, mainly in the state of Chihuahua,the biggest pecan nut producer in this country. The goal of this study was to evaluate theprofitability of pecan...

There is considerable interest in watershed-based water quality protection. However, the approach can be highly information intensive, necessitating decisions about the types and amounts of data used to guide decisions. This study examines the Bayesian value of different types and amounts of...

The success of the agricultural systems is affected by several social, cultural and economical variables, which can restrict or nurture the development of the agribusiness. In this context, agricultural managers search for ways to improve production efficiency. This effort comprises the...

Valuing American options is a central problem in option pricing since the early-exercise feature is very common among financial or insurance derivatives products. For high-dimensional American options, Monte Carlo simulation is generally regarded as the only viable approach to price them, and...

The two basic models used for constructing price indexes for durable assets (such us real estate assets) have been the hedonic and repeated sales models. Case and Quigley (1991)-CQ proposed a generalized least squares (GLS) procedure to estimate a combined (single and repeated sales information)...