Given the importance of family firms all over the world, our main objective is to study whether ownership concentration in the hands of family owners contributes to increase the market value of the firm. Additionally, we analyze whether family firms outperform nonfamily corporations. The...

This paper focuses on how a firm?s characteristics affect the market valuation of its research and development (R&D) spending. We derive a valuation model based on the capital market arbitrage condition. The estimation of this model by using the Generalized Method of Moments and data from the...

This paper is built upon the predictions of the catering theory of dividends, and examines whether investors? sentiments exert significant influence on corporate dividend policy. To achieve this aim, we propose a dividend model that incorporates a variable at a firm-level proxing for the...

This article proposes an agency model to explain the trade credit offer to clients. Our model is based on the existence of asymmetric information between sellers and buyers, which results in the appearance of two phenomena known as adverse selection and moral hazard. The former has already been...

En este trabajo se estudia el comportamiento de las empresas en lo que respecta a sus decisiones sobre la selecci¢n de tipos y proveedores de fondos. Para el efecto se analizan las decisiones de financiaci¢n de una muestra de empresas, utilizando modelos probit para datos de panel. En lo que...

En este trabajo se utiliza un modelo, que relaciona el valor de las acciones de la empresa y el nivel de inversi¢n, para una vez estimado, con la metodolog¡a de datos de panel, contrastar las hip¢tesis de infrainversi¢n y sobreinversi¢n. Los resultados obtenidos indican que la relaci¢n...

This paper examines how different control mechanisms relate to one another in the Spanish corporate governance system. We propose a new empirical approach that consists of analysing control mechanisms according to the non-linearity of the value-ownership relation, and emphasising entrenchment...

This paper investigates how ownership affects the investment-cash flow sensitivity by taking into account the non-linearities of ownership with respect to firm value, and using a free cash flow index and a criterion for financial constraints to disentangle underinvestment and overinvestment....

Purpose -The aim of this paper is to analyse how financial decisions influence corporate ownership structure of Spanish family and non-family controlled firms. Design/methodology/approach -The authors derived two models in line with financial theory, which have then been estimated by using a...