Este trabajo está dividido en tres partes. En la primera parte se estudia los rasgos básicos del ciclo económico internacional. En la segunda parte los panoramas económicos regionales y una tercera parte con gráficos estadísticos.

El propósito de este trabajo, es analizar las propiedades de dinámica comparativa de un modelo dinámico no estocástico bajo previsión perfecta con dos ecuaciones diferenciales simultáneas. El modelo presenta estabilidad de punto de silla con respecto a su posición de equilibrio, lo que...

The aim of this paper is to explore the general macro characteristics of the trading economies that can help us understand the world economy response after OPEC I and OPEC II in terms of the evolution of the North-South terms of trade, rates of profit and output levels. Therefore, we support the...

We analyse committees of voters who take a decision between two options as a two- stage process. In a discussion stage, voters share non-verifiable information about a private signal concerning what is the best option. In a voting stage, votes are cast and one of the options is implemented. We...

We analyze the effects of the financial crisis in credit valuation adjustments (CVA's). Following the arbitrage-free valuation framework presented in Brigo et al. (2009), we consider a model with stochastic Gaussian interest rates and CIR++ default intensities. Departing from previous...

The paper is concerned with ranking academic journal quality and research impact in Finance, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI (2013) Web of Science citations database (hereafter ISI). The paper analyses the 89 leading international journals in the ISI category of “Business –...

In an endogenous growth model with public consumption and public investment, we explore the time-consistent optimal choice for two policy instruments: an income tax rate and the split of government spending between consumption and investment. We show that under the time-consistent, Markov...

We consider a model of Paired Kidney Exchange (PKE) with feasibility constraints on the number of patient-donor pairs involved in exchanges. Patients' preferences are restricted so that patients prefer kidneys from compatible younger donors to kidneys from older donors. In this framework,...

This paper examines the effectiveness of using futures contracts as hedging instruments of: (1) alternative models of volatility for estimating conditional variances and covariances; (2) alternative currencies; and (3) alternative maturities of futures contracts. For this purpose, daily data of...