Este trabajo desarrolla un método flexible y semiestructural para cuantificar empíricamente la transmisión no lineal de los shocks de renta a las decisiones de elección de cartera de los hogares, tanto en el margen extensivo como en el intensivo. Modelizo la participación en el mercado de...

This paper reports on research that integrates cost modeling and business simulation into conceptual design environments for advanced launch vehicle programs. A new design-oriented computer tool has been developed and used that is capable of using price-elastic market estimates, price...

When building an economic model for supply analysis the aim is to model a decision makingprocess of one or more agents which fits the observed practice as good as possible. Hereby themodeller is often confronted with incomplete information about the production process; particularcrop specific...

Anecdotal data affirms that companies applying Lean Six Sigma in their operations not only deliver higher quality products and services, but also obtain superior financial results. The goal of this research was to empirically verify anecdotal data. The study proposed to analyze a group of...

GMM provides a computationally convenient estimation method and the resulting estimator can be shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal under the fairly moderate regularity conditions. It is widely known that the information content in the population moment condition has impacts on the...

The lognormal distribution is useful in modeling continuous random variables which are greater than or equal to zero. Example scenarios in which the lognormal distribution is used include, among many others: in medicine, latent periods of infectious diseases; in environmental science, the...

The beta distribution is useful in modeling continuous random variables that lie between 0 and 1, such as proportions and percentages. The beta distribution takes on many different shapes and may be described by two shape parameters, alpha and beta, that can be difficult to estimate. Maximum...