The development of a model that allows measuring the productivity of a technology-based company is presented, which is based on the interactions identified between the investment of the research department, computer fraud, and theft. These interactions are presented through a model of fuzzy...

In Mexico the National Institute of Statistic and Geography (INEGI) publishes a monthly indicator of business confidence (ICE) for various economic sectors using the Monthly Survey of Business Opinion (EMOE). In the present work reference is made only to the construction segment as it is one of...

We propose a new, computationally-efficient way to approximate the “grouped fixed-effects” (GFE) estimator of Bonhomme and Manresa (2015), which estimates grouped patterns of unobserved heterogeneity. To do so, we generalize the fuzzy C-means objective to regression settings. As the...

In today’s complex financial markets, the importance of cash flow management has dramatically increased. In this regard, the present study proposes a multi-objective programming model to configure cash flow management with an inventory control approach. Minimizing the earning quality (the...