Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been successful in providing credit to millions of low-income borrowers in groups previously excluded from formal financial services, but they often charge interest rates that many claim are excessive. We examine microfinance interest rates and their...

La tradicional regla marshalliana de inversión (o abandono) cuando el valor del activo subyacente es mayor (o menor) al costo de la inversión se ve modificada cuando existen situaciones de incertidumbre e irreversibilidad, generando un componente de opción en dichas decisiones. Este...

El financiamiento a través de instrumentos de deuda de una economía con ingresos volátiles y vulnerable a shocks externos incrementa los riesgos asociados al incumplimiento de crédito en situaciones de crisis, mas aún cuando la economía en su conjunto se encuentra expuesta una fuente de...

La tradicional regla marshalliana de inversión (o abandono) cuando un activo vale mas (menos) que una inversión alternativa es modificada en situaciones de incertidumbre e irreversibilidad, generando un componente de opción. Adicionalmente, la interacción de varios participantes en una...

In this article, we carry out a study about one of the most disruptive topics in recent times: cryptocurrencies. Whether as a revolution in payment methods, because it is a speculative asset or because of the particularities of the technology on which it is supported, cryptocurrencies are...

This paper aims to carry out a preliminary analysis of the arbitrage pricing theory in Argentine capital market, with special emphasis on inflation as a variable of interest for an emerging country, an underdeveloped financial market, and a period under analysis with inflationary trends and...

This paper aims to analyse the Basque Country companies' view about the financial valuation of intangibles relevance and its influence on business performance. To achieve this objective, a field study has been done with 440 telephone calls to Basque Country companies' financial managers. Then,...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between the financial development and economic growth in Latin American countries. First, we show the high correlation between financial system indicators and GDP. Second, we test out that regardless the financial structure of each...

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...