The objectives of this study are to present a method of approximation of the parameters of Burr XII, Weibull, and Dagum distributions, given a small number of data points of the distribution, and to determine which distribution provides a better goodness-of-fit for the distribution of wealth...

This article introduces the R package ExtremeBounds to perform extreme bounds analysis (EBA), a sensitivity test that examines how robustly the dependent variable of a regression model is related to a variety of possible determinants. ExtremeBounds supports Leamer's EBA that focuses on the upper...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: http://ssrn.com/abstract=3858999During the last years, there has been an increase in the use of derivative instruments, in addition to significant losses reported by companies and financial institutions, putting the appropriate use...

Calculating liquid asset risk can be useful for any investor with a trade portfolio, as well as for financial institutions, as liquidity crises have been the force behind many bankruptcies. That is why more and more financial entities are using L-VaR techniques to measure the different trade...

This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...

Analysing causality among oil prices and, in general, among financial and economic variables is of central relevance in applied economics studies. The recent contribution of Lu et al. (2014) proposes a novel test for causality- the DCC-MGARCH Hong test. We show that the critical values of the...

Non-market environmental valuation (NMEV) is undergoing a period of increased growth in both application and development as a result of increasing recognition of the role of economics in environmental policy issues. Against this backdrop, The International Handbook on Non-Market Environmental...