The low liquidity showed in the evolution of Alternative Markets for expanding firms has caused a great concern among practitioners. The debate arises: Is it this lack of liquidity a market maturity matter? Would liquidity arise itself with more companies going public and more investors trading?...

The low liquidity showed in the evolution of Alternative Markets for expanding firms has caused a great concern among practitioners. The debate arises: Is it this lack of liquidity a market maturity matter? Would liquidity arise itself with more companies going public and more investors trading?...

English abstract: This paper analyses the main trends in the private sector’s issuance activity in international capital markets during 2021, a year in which, despite positive developments that resulted in volumes above pre-2020 levels, the record 2020 figures were not achieved. Thus, the...

Spanish Abstract: La formación de los empleados permite dar mejor información y elevar la transparencia al cliente financiero. En este sentido, la Ley de crédito inmobiliario incluye los requisitos de cualificación del personal entre las medidas de refuerzo de la transparencia que favorecen...

The exchange markets and the exchange rates of Asia and Latin America are studied econometrically. Endogenous structural change and cointegration analyzes and impulse-response functions are used. The findings indicate that: 1) the long-term timing of the exchange markets is low; 2) there is no...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency, using data envelopment analysis, in eurobond issues fixed rate in the period 2004-2012, assessing the impact of the financial crisis in that market. Following the development of a database consisting of 1,999 Eurobonds, the results show that...

A tool that has been widely used to identify the state of financial conditions in a country are the financial conditions indexes, since they synthesize information from different variables in a single indicator allowing to identify the general behavior of financial conditions in a timely and...

The Black-Litterman (BL) model has been proposed as an alternative to Markowitz's average-variance model for the structuring of financial asset portfolios, allowing the incorporation of perspectives of fundamental analysts and guaranteeing a high degree of diversification. This model is applied...

This paper presents the progress in the integration of the Latin American Integrated Market (MILA by its Spanish acronym) by studying the dynamic relationship between the volatilities of the markets that conform it: Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Chile. To achieve this objective, data between 2002...

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...