In this paper we study the presence of calendar anomalies in the main Latin- American stock markets, for the 1993 to 2007 period. The literature has shown that the detection of those effects may depend on error distribution assumptions (Baker et al., 2008), and that their existence could be due...

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...

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...

Spanish Abstract: Se evalúa el rendimiento ex-dividendo en acciones colombianas entre 1999 y 2007, período que incluye la conformación en Julio de 2001 de la Bolsa de Valores de Colombia resultado de la integración de tres bolsas previamente existentes. Contrario a la hipótesis de...

Los mercados de títulos soberanos cumplen varias funciones para los mercados decapitales. Son fuente de financiación para el gobierno que los emite, cumplen el rol deactivo libre de riesgo -de crédito- del mercado, al tiempo que sirven como referencia obenchmark para las diferentes...