Este documento describe las consecuencias que sobre la estimación mínimo-cuadrática de los modelos econométricos tiene la aparición de observaciones atípicas en los datos muestrales. Se señala la importancia de analizar la posible presencia de puntos atípicos, destacándose las medidas y...

En este trabajo se trata de resumir los usos que la microelectrónica puede tener, tanto desde el punto de vista, docente como de gestión, en los centros de enseñanza universitaria. Hemos abogado por la necesidad y conveniencia de introducir la informática en los centros docentes, porque es...

This paper features an analysis of the e_ectiveness of a range of portfolio diversification strategies as applied to a set of 17 years of monthly hedge fund index returns on a set of ten market indices representing 13 major hedge fund categories, as compiled by the EDHEC Risk Institute. The...

One of the fastest growing areas in empirical finance, and also one of the least rigorously analyzed, especially from a financial econometrics perspective, is the econometric analysis of financial derivatives, which are typically complicated and difficult to analyze. The purpose of this special...

It is common practice to evaluate fixed-event forecast revisions in macroeconomics by regressing current forecast revisions on one-period lagged forecast revisions. Under weak-form (forecast) efficiency, the correlation between the current and one-period lagged revisions should be zero. The...

This paper features an analysis of volatility spillover effects from Australia's major trading partners, namely, China, Japan, Korea and the United States, for a period running from 12th September 2002 to 9th September 2012. This captures the impact of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). These...

The paper uses monthly data on financial stock index returns, tourism stock sub-index returns, effective exchange rate returns and interest rate differences from April 2005 – August 2013 for Taiwan that applies Chang’s (2014) novel approach for constructing a tourism financial indicator,...