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: En este estudio se estima la probabilidad de transacciones informadas comportamiento y sus efectos en los rendimientos diarios e intradiarios en Latinoamérica. Calculando la probabilidad diaria dinámica de transacciones informadas (Easley, Engle, O'Hara y Wu, 2008), como una...

An international reaction was required to the financial scandals of recent years, and some States started to reform corporate governance. Two main systems were used – self-regulation through good governance codes, and legislative measures to achieve transparency in financial markets. The...

Spanish Abstract: De acuerdo a los procesos globalizadores en el sector financiero se está experimentando grandes transformaciones derivadas de los cambios sociales del consumidor. En estos momentos somos testigos de un desafío mayúsculo desde el punto de vista tecnológico, el cual está...

In this study we analyse the effect of stock splits on stocks¿ trading activity using intraday data from a sample of 46 stock splits from the Spanish stock market. In particular, we study changes to trading activity, trading composition, the information asymmetry of stocks, the distribution of...

In this research we investigate whether quarterly earnings announcements are informative using awide sample of firms listed in the Spanish Stock Market (SIBE). We study the period comprised between thethird quarterly of 2002 and the fourth quarterly of 2003. We analyse whether abnormal returns...

Este trabajo, hace un análisis a cerca de la definición de competitividad, invita a la refleción en torno a este tema y propicia una crítica que se basa en la facilidad con que se aborda, sin dimensionar adecuadamente sus alcances. Se trata de establecer una diferencia conceptual entre...