This research conducts a review of theoretical and practical developments of Markov processes in the specialized literature, highlighting their recent advances and showing their potential for their technical goodness, in modeling the decision making processes of rational agents adding more...

Almost since its appearance, the Kalman Filter (KF) has been successfully used in control engineering. Unfortunately, most of its important results have been published in engineering journals with language, notation and style proper of engineers. In this paper, we want to present the KF in an...

In this paper the methodology of real options is presented as an imperative tool for the board of directors of a firm for the decision making process on the financial assessment of projects or business strategies when there is flexibility (optionality) of making, in the future, new decisions...

This paper uses the Structural Vector Autoregression (SVAR) to examine monetary policy of the Mexican Central Bank in the framework of standard assumption of neoclassical orthodoxy for the years 2000-2011. This research presents empirical evidence that Mexican monetary authorities reacted, in...

This paper develops a dynamic model of the returns of the Stock Market Index of the Mexican Stock Exchange within the framework of the theory of extreme values and, in particular, carries out an application of the Generalized Pareto Distribution. The statistical analysis shows that many of the...

This paper is aimed at examining the theoretical determinants and empirical evidence on the use of derivatives in Latin America for risk management. The contingent claims, the development of their market, and their use, is undoubtedly one of the most powerful financial innovations available to...

In this research, based on the guidelines of the Basel agreements and its relationships with the health sector according to the respective resolutions of the Ministry of Social Protection of Colombia, the operational risk in the social security in Colombia is quantified in the context of...

This paper explores the long-run effects of inflation on the dynamics of private sector bank credit and economic growth in Mexico over the period 1969–2011. With an ARDL-type model, the statistical results suggest that the availability of private sector bank credit in the economy exerts a...

This paper carries out an analysis of the most common structured notes traded in financial markets. A detailed description of such financial instruments emphasizing their particular characteristics and technical difficulties in the valuation process is provided. Due to the fact that most of the...

The aim of this paper is to develop a stochastic optimal control model for a closed economy with three sectors: consumers, firms and government. The random variables that drive the stochastic dynamics of relevant economic and financial variables follow a Wiener process or Brownian motion. On the...