The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the first and largest international scheme for the trading of greenhouse gas emission allowances (European Union Allowances (EUA)). Considering that the global economic crisis is hurting corporate profits, analysing the implications of CO₂...

A semi-parametric Bayesian methodology based on Cox's proportional hazards model is proposed in order to evaluate the efficacy of training programmes offered by the University of Zaragoza (Spain) in the labour market insertion process. To this end, a matched comparison group has been designed in...

A methodology is proposed to select the information set in ARMA-GARCH models in order to forecast the future evolution of an univariate heteroscedastic time series when it is suspected that the DGP is time changing. Using this methodology the stability of the DGP in the Spanish Stock Market is...