We obtain explicit expressions for the subjective, objective and market value of perpetual executive stock options (ESOs) under exogenous employment shocks driven by an independent Poisson process. Within this setup,we obtain the executive's optimal exercise policy which allows us to analyze the...

In this study we analyse the effect of stock splits on stocks¿ trading activity using intraday data from a sample of 46 stock splits from the Spanish stock market. In particular, we study changes to trading activity, trading composition, the information asymmetry of stocks, the distribution of...

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic-financial ratios and thedecision of distributing interim dividends by Spanish firms. With that purpose, we takea sample of non-financial companies quoting in the Spanish Stock Market during theperiod from 1999 to 2001. We choose a...

This paper examines the empirical behaviour of stock prices around the ex dates of stock splits in order to detect anomalous returns. Also, it is investigated the determinant factors of the split size, its effects on the liquidity and the influence of the market microstructure in the abnormal...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the dividend and debt policies, firm risk and the director’s ownership. Firstly, the results show that the payment of dividends reduces the risk and the leverage, and increases the ownership. Secondly, the firm risk presents a negative effect on the...

This paper analyzes the effect of the power of the chairman and CEO on firm risk. As proxies of power several variables have been employed: the fact that a person accumulates both the CEO and the Chairman titles, the fact of CEO or Chairman being founders, their tenure, their shareholding and...

This paper examines whether Working Capital Management (WCM) is sensitive to market imperfections such as asymmetric information, agency conflicts or financial distress. We find that firms have a target investment in working capital and that they take decisions in order to achieve this. In...

Several theoretical papers have addressed the question of why firms raise public equity. However, direct empirical evidence on the characteristics of firms going public is scarce and limited to non-Anglo-Saxon contexts. Our research combines the analysis of ex ante and ex post characteristics of...

This paper studies the shape of the relation between firm value and trade credit for a sample of Spanish listed firms in the period 2001 to 2007. Considering the tradeoff between benefits and costs of investing in trade credit we estimate a non-linear relationship between accounts receivable and...

Though the going public decision has been addressed by several theories, empirical research is particularly scarce to European countries. This is the first research in the Spanish market that investigates ex ante and ex post characteristics of IPO firms, using a large database of private held...