We discuss a Lévy multivariate model for financial assets which incorporates jumps, skewness, kurtosis and stochastic volatility. We use it to describe the behavior of a series of stocks or indexes and to study a multi-firm, value-based default model. Starting from an independent Brownian...

Este artículo presenta los fundamentos económicos, estratégicos y financieros que le dan soporte al proceso de determinación del valor de una empresa. Se examinaron los resultados de valor estimado y valor real de venta de las principales transacciones llevadas a cabo en Colombia en 2006....

This paper presents a new index for Sweden computed using a new time-series of 60 years of monthly returns of real estate stocks from 1939 to the present. The computation of the index is explained along with some general statistics. We find that the financial crisis of 1990-92 and the subsequent...

We use data on actual holding periods for all investors in a stock market over a 10-year period to investigate the links between holding periods, liquidity, and asset returns. Microstructure measures of liquidity are shown to be important determinants of the holding period decision of individual...

This paper shows that information effects per se are not responsible for the Giffen goods anomaly affecting competitive traders’ demands in multi- asset, noisy rational expectations equilibrium models. The role that information plays in traders’ strategies also matters. In a market with risk...

We study the role of information in asset pricing models with long-run cash flow risk. When investors can distinguish short- from long-run consumption risks (full information), the model generates a sizable equity risk premium only if the equity term structure slopes up, contrary to the data. In...

L'objectif de cette etude est, d'une part, de discuter certains points conceptuaels concernant les liens entre opportunites d'investissement, actifs incorporelset creation de valeur, et d'autre part de tester la validite des theories contractuelles de la politique financiere sur un echantillon...

This paper tests a traditional model of asset pricing, the CCAPM (Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model), using data from the Spanish stock market. A generalized calibration method is used to test this model. This method allows us to judge the degree of correspondance between the population...