During the last decades the exchange trade in Spain overseas has experienced a major boost, firstly related to European market integration and, recently, to the worldwide globalization process, whereby huge exporters (i.e. China or India) have raised to the new international scene and the...

La proyección de los términos de intercambio es un insumo relevante para el diseño de políticas macroeconómicas y es de vital importancia en países como Perú, cuya economía es pequeña y exportadora principalmente de materias primas. En el presente documento se aplica la metodología...

Nonlinearly mean-reverting models can explain the high short-term volatility ofthe real exchange rate and the slow speed of adjustment to the equilibrium level. Anonlinearly mean-reverting model is used in this paper to fit to euro-dollar realexchange rate. This model implies that near...

Spanish Abstract: Al hablar de Tratados de Libre Comercio, se debe hacer un análisis de las relaciones internacionales que recaen sobre los mismos y de aspectos tales como la globalización. El caso del TLC entre Colombia y Estados Unidos muestra ciertos elementos contraproducentes para el...

In the present document it is exposed in an abstract way the models of credit portfolioes CreditMetricsTM, KMV, CreditRisk+, Credit Portfolio View in such a way that they could be calibrated and implemented in financial institutions where the quality and quantity of credit information is scanty,...

Schwarz. In this paper I evaluate the predictive ability of the Akaike and Schwarz information criteria using autoregressive integrated moving average models, with sectoral data of Chilean GDP. In terms of root mean square error, and after the estimation of more than a million models, the...

We search for evidence against the hypothesis of a non-linear relationship between inflation and growth rates for 1993-2012 Peruvian data. A family of dichotomous models provide the way to model the relationship between the those two variables' cycles. Given the acceleration/de-acceleration...

El modelo gaussiano GARCH(1,1) ha sido empleado, tradicionalmente, en el estudio de la tasa de cambio; sin embargo, un número importante de estudios recientes (utilizando modelos FIGARCH e HYGARCH) ha encontrado evidencia de persistencia en su volatilidad. En este trabajo, usando una estrategia...

This paper contains the results of a non parametric multi-step ahead forecast for the monthly Colombian inflation, using Mean conditional Kernel estimation over inflation changes, with no inclusion of exogenous variables. The results are compared with those from an ARIMA and a nonlinear STAR....