Este trabajo revisa los fundamentos analíticos y la evidencia empírica de los problemas básicos relacionados con el gobierno de las empresas, las normas contables y la transparencia y analiza el comportamiento de las empresas auditoras, los analistas y las agencias de calificación en la...

An Eponymous Dictionary of Economics is a fascinating and accessible reference work with comprehensive coverage of the field of economics from Adam Smith's Problem through Minkowski's Theorem to Zellner's Estimator

In this article we analyse the impact of firms’ size on their financial and cost structure. We use a panel of 2000 Spanish manufacturing firms for the period 1991-1998. We find that the marginal cost of external finance of firms varies inversely with their size. Also the smaller the firm the...