In this paper we study the possible effect it may have concerning the use of financial derivatives in the evolution of the share price of Mexican non-financial corporations, whether such contracts are used for hedging financial risks or for trading. The first part is a review of the literature...

Spanish Abstract: El descenso de la Bolsa en España (ITBM) en el mes de marzo (hasta el viernes 27) ha sido un 22,9%. Es un importante descenso, pero los ha habido (de momento) mayores. Observando la evolución bursátil de los últimos 80 años, se corrobora que la bolsa española ya ha tenido...

The main purpose of this paper is to analyse if the Capital Asset Pricing Model and a two-factor model (model extended with the size factor) can efficiently explain the variability of the returns on the Personal Pension Plans in Spain over 1995-2003. We analyse the sample of two ways: set of...

“Orthogonal portfolios” methodology applied by Roll (1980), in order to get an orthogonal zero-beta portafolio when we have a nonefficient market index in Mean-Variance approach, is used by MacKinley and Pastor (2000) to obtain a non observed risk factor that considers the information aj?0...

In this paper we study the possible effect it may have concerning the use of financial derivatives in the evolution of the share price of Mexican non-financial corporations, whether such contracts are used for hedging financial risks or for trading. The first part is a review of the literature...