Enormous quantity of information affects stock returns every day producing their almost random behavior. Nonetheless some information can be recovered by using symbolic methods and constructing Minimal Spanning Trees (MST) and Hierarchical Trees (HT). The introduced method is applied to the main...

In this paper we introduce a method to describe dynamical patterns for the exchange rate movements in the main Latin American markets and to analyze the contagion phenomena in currency crisis. This method combines Symbolic Time Series Analysis (Daw et. al. 2003) with the nearest neighbor single...

Argentine is the principal source of tourism in the Uruguayan case. Its effects in the economic growth is analyzed in the present paper by using quarterly data from 1987.I to 2006.IV. Co-integration analysis shows the existence of one cointegrated vector among real per capita GDP, Argentinean...

Tourism demand in Mexico is around 80 percent represented by USA visitors. The goal of this paper is to explain the long-term effects of Tourism Demand in Mexico with respect to US visitors. To reach our goal the methodology of this paper follows the Johansen cointegration analysis and using...

Financial Markets can be modeled as complex systems. The Hugh quantity and different information affecting these markets is a remarked characteristic. However some of this information can be recover by constructing a topology of the market. We develop a symbolic method in order to study...

International tourism, on which we focus in this paper, is recognized to contribute to long-run growth through a whole list of diverse channels. This belief that tourism can promote, if not, plainly, cause long-run growth is known in the literature as the Tourism-Led Growth Hypothesis (TLGH)....

This study investigates the relation between tourism and economic growth for the South Tyrolean economy by using the Johansen cointegration analysis to obtain a cointegrated vector among the relevant variables and the Granger Causality to investigate causality. We use annual data from 1980 to...

En este documento se examina la evolución de las economías de América Latina en 1990–2011, con el fin de identificar avances, pendientes y retrocesos asociados a las reformas de mercado que se aplicaron, en línea con el Consenso de Washington, y a las políticas económicas que le...