In this paper we examine some differential facts of the Andalusian labour market in comparison with the Spanish one, concentrating on the higher incidence of youth unemployment in Andalusia. Our results show that the probability that the Andalusian young workers quickly find their first...

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...

This article aims to analyze the phenomenon of financial conservatism in firms' capital structures and relate it to their employment variation for a sample of Spanish companies during the 2007 - 2010 period. Financial conservatism consists of a low-leverage/high cash no-short-term capital...

This article aims to analyze the phenomenon of financial conservatism in firms’ capital structures and relate it to their employment variation for a sample of Spanish companies during the 2007 - 2010 period. Financial conservatism consists of a low-leverage/high cash no-short-term capital...

The objective of this work is to analyse the factors motivating firms to follow a conservative (or low-leverage) financial policy over several years. We carry out a study on a sample of 1,396 Spanish firms in the period 1993-2001. Using logit regression and various difference of means analyses,...

Se presenta aquí un análisis de la pobreza en la Argentina entre los años 1998 y 2000, basado en los movimientos de los hogares y de las personas dentro y fuera de la pobreza. Con observaciones de un panel corto diseñado con cuatro ondas de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares, se examina el...

In this article we study the market duration of new housing built by developers in Mexico between 2013 and 2015. In particular, this document discusses whether the physical characteristics of housing, state of location, date put on sale, time of construction, the initial price and the size of...

This paper identifies factors that explain the survival of Argentine trade flows using the combination of the Classification And Regression Tree analysis (CART) method and cross-section econometrics as the identification method. While the first determines the best predictors, the second offers a...

Spanish Abstract: Quienes transan electricidad en los mercados liberalizados, est an expuestos a riesgos que requieren un an alisis y tratamiento diferente al de otro tipo de commodities. La din amica del precio spot, unida a la necesidad de completar el mercado cubriendo la exposici on al...

Spanish Abstract: En este trabajo se analiza el efecto que tienen las restricciones de VaR sobre la selecci on de la cantidad de contratos forward en un mercado el ectrico y el momento en que se debe realizar la operaci on de cobertura cuando un agente busca maximizar el valor esperado de su...