The analysis of the pandemic and its effects have been widely studied. For instance, in Economics, most research has studied the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy, a group of countries, or a single country, while the small-scale effects of the pandemic have not received enough attention....

Given the scarcity of innovation measurements at the state level, we propose an innovation index. To test if the proposed index is a good measure of innovation, we studied its relationship with economic growth across the United States. Results are qualitatively consistent with the literature in...

This paper proposes a mathematical two-stage decision making model based on dual-decision models from behavioral economics that includes, in addition to cognitive and affective systems, an individualistic human factor and a stochastic shock. The model provides a new vision of the decision-making...

This paper investigates the determinants of the behavior on the long time of the total poverty in Venezuela during the period 1975-2000. Series of time are utilized and the paper applies an analysis of multiple lineal regression. The empirical results indicate that an increase of the 1% in the...