Earnings announcements are anticipated events with significant price impacts. This fact can motivate informed traders to trade on private information and liquidity providers to reduce liquidity in order to be careful about insider trading. In this paper, we examine the effect of earnings...

Latibex is an international market where major Latin American firms are traded in euros. We investigate whether the price impact of the quarterly earnings announcement are different in Latibex and in Latin American markets due to the different degree of liquidity and trading activity in both...

One of the main interests of market microstructure is the estimation of the bid–ask spread components from financial data, specially the adverse selection component given the implications of its own existence. As aresult, several empirical models based on price time–series statistical...

Market efficiency has been questioned in the last years as several papers found abnormal returns economically and statistically significant over long horizons after main firm decisions. Nevertheless, the conceptual and statistical problems related with the estimation and test of long-term...

[ES] Una de las principales preocupaciones en el área de la microestructura del mercado ha sido la estimación de los componentes no observables de la horquilla de precios a partir de las series de datos que proporcionan los mercados financieros, despertando quizá un mayor interés el de...

[ES] El paradigma de la eficiencia ha sido puesto en entredicho en las últimas décadas como consecuencia de la obtención de rendimientos anormales, estadística y económicamente significativos, durante amplios periodos de tiempo tras algunas importantes decisiones empresariales. No obstante,...

This document is the result of the Rural Territorial Dynamics Program, implemented by Rimisp in several Latin American countries in collaboration with numerous partners. The program has been supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada). We authorize the...

This document is the result of the Rural Territorial Dynamics Program, implemented by Rimisp in several Latin American countries in collaboration with numerous partners. The program has been supported by the International Development Research Center (IDRC, Canada). We authorize the...

El desplazamiento forzado en Colombia, consecuencia del conflicto armado, ha conllevado a una crisis humanitaria sin precedentes para el Estado Colombiano. El objetivo de este trabajo es, por un lado, identificar las causas municipales del desplazamiento en Colombia y, por otro lado, estimar los...