This thesis consists of empirical studies on various aspects of international corporate finance, a series of long-run event studies examining the abnormal stock return performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), and stock analyst recommendations. The...

We show that the newly developed exchange-traded world equity index funds, or iShares, trade at economically significant premiums for 10–50% of the times even after controlling for transaction costs and time-zone measurement errors. Moreover, iShares price returns exhibit excessive volatility...

State multinationals were investigated in the 1980s. Since then, little work on the state multinational has been done because of the dramatic changes in the world in terms of both politics and economics, such as the waves of liberalization, deregulation and privatization. However, in the current...

La extensa literatura macroeconómica que pretende explicar el ampliamente observado equity home bias ignora a las empresas internacionalmente activas. En un modelo DSGE que presenta la elección endógena de las empresas de ser activas internacionalmente —ya sea a través de las exportaciones...