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A multivariate analysis of hybrid and electric vehicles sales in Mexico
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-08)This paper presents a multivariate analysis considering economic and ecological factors that are associated with the acquisition of low emission vehicles in Mexico. We analyzed the data available in the Mexican context ... -
The narrative dimension of productive work: craftsmanship and collegiality in the quest for excellence in modern productivity
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)Alasdair MacIntyre´s criticism of Modernity essentially refers to the problem of compartmentalization, which restricts the possibility of achieving excellence in an integral lifestyle. Among other reasons, compartmentalization ... -
Never married and earnings : evidence from Russia
(Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of civil status on wage earnings in post-Soviet Russia. Education and work experience are the key explanatory variables according to the Mincer function. In view ... -
A new family of boolean functions with good cryptographic properties
(MDPI AG, 2021-03-25)In 2005, Philippe Guillot presented a new construction of Boolean functions using linear codes as an extension of the Maiorana–McFarland’s (MM) construction of bent functions. In this paper, we study a new family of Boolean ... -
Operational risk and family business elements
(Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Coordinación de Publicaciones de la Escuela Superior de Economía, 2020-11-19)Operational Risk has been one of the most important risks to be regulated nowadays among companies. There are several factors that can impact this kind of risk; one of them is Family Business elements. By using a Bayesian ... -
Operational risk measured by bayesian networks with a poisson-gamma joint distribution in a financial firm
(Instituto Mexicano de Ejecutivos de Finanzas A.C., 2017)Main objective is to quantifying capital requirements of Operational Risk based on Bayesian inference by using an operational risk advanced measurement model, particularly when historical information is not available for ... -
Optimal transmission planning under the mexican new electricity market
(Elsevier Ltd., 2017)This paper addresses electricity transmission planning under the new industry and institutional structure of the Mexican electricity market, which has engaged in a deep reform process after decades of a state-owned-verti ... -
Participation in sports, physical exercise, and wage income : evidence from Russian longitudinal data
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021-06-30)In this article, associations between different types of sports/physical exercise and wage income are analyzed. Using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, several Mincer earnings functions were estimated ... -
The passport nightmare: business process analysis in public service
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2020-07)Learning outcomes: Students should be able to: identify the elements of business processes; analyze efficiency measures; identify and define causes of poor efficiency in business process; analyze the results of a simulation ... -
Person-centered leadership : the practical idea as a dynamic principle for ethical leadership
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-07-30)In search of ethical conceptual frameworks that are applicable to the practical reality of companies, ethical leadership has recently gained ground in Business Ethics scholarship as a broad umbrella under which to fit both ... -
Predictive analytics for hospital admissions from the emergency department using triage information
(Elsevier B.V., 2019-02)In this paper, we investigate the predictive factors of hospital admissions from the emergency department (ED) in various classification models and evaluate their performance. We analyze data from a major hospital in a ... -
Price sensitivity versus ethical consumption : a study of millennial utilitarian consumer behavior
(Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2020-06)Millennial consumers have been associated with a preference for environmental, socially responsible, and high-tech products; they have also been known to be quick spenders tending to hedonistic consumption; however, there ... -
Price transparency and tacit collusion in the gasoline industry in Mexico
(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, 2020-09-04)Despite the introduction of new retailers in the Mexican gasoline industry in 2018, retail margins remain high regardless of the low international oil prices. This article introduces atheoretical ... -
Pricing for a common good : beyond ethical minimalism in commercial practices
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)Pricing policies and fair-trade practices are critical for sustaining commercial relationships between firms and customers. Nevertheless, in current business practices, fairness has been mistakenly reduced to a minimalistic ... -
Probabilistic evaluation of the exploration–exploitation balance during the search, using the Swap Operator, for Nonlinear Bijective S-Boxes, resistant to power attacks
(MDPI, 2021-12-08)During the search for S-boxes resistant to Power Attacks, the S-box space has recently been divided into Hamming Weight classes, according to its theoretical resistance to these attacks using the metric variance of the ... -
Profitability using second-generation bioethanol in gasoline produced in Mexico
(MDPI AG, 2021-04-19)Gasoline produced in Mexico by the productive company of the state Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) mainly uses oil-derived ethers as oxygenators to reach the Mexican Regulatory ‘Frame-work’s octane number. An alternative to ... -
Project valuation of a distribution centre of an auxiliary rail freight terminal : using real options with fuzzy logic and binomial trees
(ASERS Publishing House, 2016)This paper presents the financial evaluation of the extension of an auxiliary rail freight terminal to integrate it to a logistics platform (LP). This investment phase is focused on building a distribution center (CEDI), ... -
Pronóstico de precios de petróleo : una comparación entre modelos GARCH y redes neuronales diferenciales
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Economía, 2017)El objetivo del presente trabajo es mostrar las ventajas que tiene el utilizar a las redes neuronales diferenciales (RND) como un método alternativo eficiente en el cálculo de pronósticos de precios futuros de activos ... -
Prudence as part of a worldview : historical and conceptual dimensions
(Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2016)As Sison (2015, p. 232) remarks, ‘politics’ in Aristotle could mean at least three different things: (1) a kind of life; (2) a qualifier for the virtues of justice and prudence; or (3) a body of knowledge. As a body of ... -
Rebuilding the temple of graces : Gift-giving as the foundation of care
(Association Oeconomia, 2018)The concept of "care" has recently emerged to expand the idea of rationality in economics, introducing insights that have traditionally been restricted to the so-called third sector (non-profit), and, as a result, questioning ...