The main purpose of this study is to analyse interest rate sensitivity of the stockreturns of the Spanish bank holding companies. The results seem to indicate that thebanking system was not sensitive to interest rate risk for the period of December 1962to May 1996. An interesting alternative...

This paper compares forecast accuracy of two Dynamic Factor Models in a context of constraints interms of data availability. Estimation technique and properties of the factor decomposition depend onthe cross section dimension of the dataset included in each model: a large dataset composed by...

We analyze the effect of cross-country differences in accounting standards on the empirical performance of financial pricing models. We show how the lack of uniform accounting standards across countries generates inconsistent estimates of the model parameters, and leads to rejection of the...