The purpose of this paper is to study if there is a Granger causality relationship between the price of oil and the prices of the stocks that compose the Integrated Latin American Market (MILA) index. Our analysis found that from the perspective of the efficient market hypothesis, there is no...

We have examined the value that the market assigns to different components of the cash flow to equity including quot;potentialquot; dividends. We study non financial publicly traded firms of five Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru during the period 1991-2007. The...

An extensive body of knowledge has been developed around the theoretical relationship between the assumption that support the theory of the cost of capital and those that support the Portfolio-Capital Asset Pricing Model. The main discussion concerning how these theories are related is focused...

Value-at-Risk (VaR) has become one of the most used techniques in financial risk management. The purpose of this paper is to address how well the technique holds in a thinly traded environment, such as the one in the Colombian stock market. Our purpose is to measure the efficiency of...

Many financial consultants, authors and teachers include changes in liquid assets (potential dividends) in the cash flows. This practice is against basic financial theory. We present economic, theoretical and empirical arguments to support the position to use only paid dividends in the cash...

We analyse the effect of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) on portfolios of USD denominated sovereign bonds. We use propensity matching estimators in order to measure the average difference in the volatility of sovereign spreads between the non-crisis and crisis period. We use a parsimonious...

This paper analyses the effect of surprises in local and international economic news on the Colombian local-currency government bond market. In this study, we categorize the different government bond issues into three constant-duration portfolios to correct for mismatching maturities among...

The purpose of this paper is to clarify some of the difficulties that a practitioner may find in implementing the binomial model for valuing a corporate bond with multiple embedded options in emerging markets. Especially, when faced with the dilemma of determining which should be the proxy...

The present paper calculates systematic risk within the context of the Capital Asset Pricing Model in order to investigate the significance of financial leverage. It develops a multinomial model with two theoretically predicted targets in the unleveraged/leveraged process, namely the proxy...