This document presents a methodology for the calculation of the Structural Balance of the Public Sector and its application to the Peruvian economy during the period 1990-2002. There are two objectives for this research ...

The problem of interference in wireless communications was addressed in the U.S. by a command and control system instituted nearly eight decades ago. This system is currently applied in most countries that allow private ...

Biotechnology (BT) is a major source of numerous socio-economic and ecological changes and consequences as we are entering the 21st century. The public is almost daily confronted with conflicting stories that encompass the ...

The oldest people is described as one of the most vulnerable population groups in the country. They require special public attention since there is a weak protection to risks and external changes. The demographic transition ...

This article analyzes the proliferation of preferential trade agreements in the Western Hemisphere, the main economic and political motivations behind them and the changes that have occurred since the sixties in integration ...

This paper surveys three methods for testing the weak form of market efficiency: the autocorrelation coefficient, the variance ratio, and the lead-on-the-lag regression. All of them have different strengths and limitations, ...

This work is an approximation to a deeper analysis of Peru’s trade negotiations processes, with the aim to develop a medium term negotiation’s strategy. Through the document, the importance of World Trade Organization’s ...

This article assesses the pros and cons of a basic income grant and estimates the financial cost of paying a similar benefit to very specific groups in Peru. This is an old concept in the economic literature and is associated ...

In the capability approach, there is a consideration about initial distribution ofwealth for assessing well-being, that permits to include individual’s own previousexperience in his income trajectories. Therefore, analysis ...

Traditional risk definitions, based on supervisor’s point of view, don’t beholdexplicitly the existence and interaction of other important risks such as derivativecredit risks from other unsecured risk by debtors of bank ...