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...

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: 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...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar con detalle las posibles fuentes que pueden estar ocasionando el efecto momentum en el mercado español. Consistente con la evidencia obtenida en otros mercados, la estrategia de momentum proporciona importantes beneficios que no pueden ser explicados ni...

The momentum effect is perhaps one of the most embarrassing puzzles in the stock marketresearch nowadays. However, such phenomenon has received scarce attention in the Spanish Market.In this paper, we present a meticulous analysis of the momentum profits in this market, with specialconcern on...

This paper analyses the long-run shareholders¿ wealth effect and the firms¿ operating performance of the rights offerings decision in Spain. The evidence shows that the stock price of firms¿ issuing rights substantially under-perform the different benchmarks employed. It has also been...

Previous evidence has demonstrated that the momentum effect is present in the Spanish stockmarket, and that it can not be explained neither by the CAPM nor the Fama&French (1993) threefactor model. The aim of this paper is to deepen in the possible explanations of such phenomenon byanalyzing two...

Este trabajo analiza el efecto de las redefiniciones del índice Ibex35 en los precios y la actividad de negociación de las acciones incluidas y excluidas. La muestra utilizada está formada por 26 entradas y 22 salidas estables en el periodo enero 1991-diciembre 1998. Los resultados obtenidos...

En el presente trabajo se analiza el papel del riesgo asimétrico en la explicación del efecto momentum en el mercado de valores español. Inicialmente se ha observado una relación negativa y significativa entre la coasimetría de una cartera y su rentabilidad. Por este motivo se ha incluido...