Since January 2020, we have been experiencing times of uncertainty and volatility. This study aims to analyze the behavior of cryptocurrencies during periods of volatility and whether they can be considered safe-haven assets. To measure volatility, we utilize the VIX and estimate linear...

Decision-making appears in any context of our daily lives, but when dealing with financial or investment issues, there are greater degrees of complexity to determine what is best for personal finances. On paper everything seems simple, but when it comes time to implement these financial...

In view of recent corporate scandals, it is argued that corporate governance can learn from public governance. Institutions devised to control and discipline the behaviour of executives in the political sphere can give new insights into how to improve the governance of firms. Some proposal such...

This article validates the chaotic behavior in the Argentinean, Brazilian, Canadian, Chilean, American, Peruvian and Mexican Stock Markets using the MERVAL, BOVESPA, S&P TSX COMPOSITE, IPSA, IGPA, S&P 500, DOW JONES INDUSTRIALS, NASDAQ, IGBVL and IPC Stock Indexes respectively. The results of...

The present work corroborates the existence of two anomalies that question the hypothesis of efficient markets in the Chilean stock market, these are the “effect weekend” or “effect monday” and the “effect month end”. Using the daily values of closing of stock-exchange index IPSA,...

This paper analyzes the response of the stock market returns to monetary policy decisions by the Central Bank of Chile. It adopts the event-study methodology in order to gauge the influence of anticipated and unanticipated changes in the Chilean monetary policy interest rate (TPM), decided in...

This paper studies the influence of short sales bans on the Spanish stock market, and its objective is to know if this corrective measure has had positive effects on the market. To determine this influence, we have studied the profitability, risk and liquidity of Ibex 35 in the period between...

In this paper, we explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the credit risk of large European companies. We selected corporations belonged to the EuroStoxx 50 Index and whose CDS (Credit Default Swap) may be found in the iTraxx Europe Index. Then we applied the methodology of event studies...

This paper tests the existence of financial contagion between US and Latin America stock markets based on the analysis of pattern of the correlation coefficients during crisis and stable periods. The study applies a dynamic conditional correlation multivariate GARCH model to estimate...

The multifractal model has demonstrated properly how to measure the complexity within economic systems when describing a time series with a spectrum; this tool offers the possibility to study local regularity for prior and after market crash detections. The main goal of this work is to show...