Background: Family farmers' participation in marketing channels has prompted debates on the types of market best suited to this type of farmer. Commodity production by rural communities and the role of agribusiness long marketing channels for family-based farmers are the subjects of numerous...

Background: Family farmers' participation in marketing channels has prompted debates on the types of market best suited to this type of farmer. Commodity production by rural communities and the role of agribusiness long marketing channels for family-based farmers are the subjects of numerous...

Public financing of infrastructure proved underperforming at uneconomic prices, and because of political interference in the management of funds, understanding the problem leading to the adoption of private funding variant, an effective way of private funding being the financing of the project....

The use of structural-equation modeling (SEM) in strategic-management research has grown dramatically during recent years. Although this statistical technique offers researchers a valuable tool for testing hypothesized models, certain challenges accompany the use of SEM. The current article...

It has become generally accepted that to maximise patronage, transit must take people to where they want to go in a timely and convenient fashion. The benchmark in this case may be the most attractive available alternative mode, such as the private car with its door-to-door high level of...

Due to the well known fact that market returns are not normally distributed, we use generalized hyperbolic distributions for pricing options in a randomized discrete-time setup. The obtained formulas can be used for pricing options on stock indexes, currencies and futures contracts. We test them...

La apertura económica ha entrado en crisis y con ella los dogmas que la han acompañado.En el artículo se argumenta que la aplicación de las políticas económicassuele ser muy inconsistente. Y ello es cierto tanto para la sustitución de importaciones,como para la apertura. De la...

Recent studies have extensively used logit or probit models to examine hypothesis on merger motives and corporate bankruptcy. In this paper we analyze some methodological issues of using binary choice models in this framework and it is proposed an alternative methodology: The Multinomial Logit...