Accounting and Financial methods are useful techniques for business, but their objective study should be inserted in the wider scope of Social Science. Historical issues determine policies and these ones, themselves, configure taxes and other environmental variables. Taxes, interest rates and...

We give a new way to price American options, using Samuelson´s formula. We first obtain the option price corresponding to a European option at time t, weighting it by the probability that the underlying asset takes the value S at time t. This factor is given by the solution of the Fokker-Planck...

The English version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2783021' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2783021Spanish Abstract: Esta tesis desarrolla un modelo algebraico de cobertura (MAC) de carteras índice de renta variable con futuros sobre índices bursátiles alternativo a los...

In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...

Spanish Abstract: Se plantea el coeficiente de dependencia asintótica, basado en cópulas, como una medida para la administración del riesgo en portafolios de acciones. Se describen algunos aspectos de las estructuras macro y microeconómicas del mercado en Colombia, motivando la introducción...

Spanish Abstract: La formación de los empleados permite dar mejor información y elevar la transparencia al cliente financiero. En este sentido, la Ley de crédito inmobiliario incluye los requisitos de cualificación del personal entre las medidas de refuerzo de la transparencia que favorecen...

In this paper we study the possible effect it may have concerning the use of financial derivatives in the evolution of the share price of Mexican non-financial corporations, whether such contracts are used for hedging financial risks or for trading. The first part is a review of the literature...

The paper’s objective is to identify the balance of risks that economic agents incorporate in oil and exchange rate markets (peso/US dollar). For that purpose, two methodologies that are normally used to estimate the expected risk-neutral probability functions for a determinate underlying...