Sector investment has grown significantly in international stock markets an also in the Spanish one, during the last few years. Among other issues, sector portfolio managers need to estimate accurately the beta of their portfolios in order to carry out more efficient investment strategies....

Estimated DSGE models tend to ascribe a significant and often predominant part of a country's trade balance (TB) dynamics to domestic drivers ("shocks"), suggesting foreign factors to be only of secondary importance. This paper revisits the result based on more agnostic approaches to shock...

The weak value-growth premium of the Spanish stock market highlights the importance of enhancing the accounting-based fundamental strength of the value-growth strategy. This accounting strength is needed to detect potential errors in market expectations that result in mispriced stocks. When we...

This paper examines the short-term performance and market timing ability of equity mutual funds in Spain between 1990 and 2020. Using a sample of daily returns, we document strong evidence of performance persistence and market timing ability across deciles in the post-ranking quarter. We...

Performance measurement is an area of crucial interest in asset valuation and investment management. High volatility as well as time aggregation of returns, amongst other characteristics, may distort the results of conventional measures of performance. In this work, we study the performance of...

We analyze empirically whether trade and financial linkages between two countries increase the synchronization of their business cycles directly or indirectly. In a system of equations, we use a newly processed database on the bilateral linkages of a small open economy, namely Spain. We prefer...

This paper investigates whether the UK's referendum decision to leave the European Union ("Brexit") had a positive impact on portfolio risk diversification. We estimate weekly dynamic conditional correlations between 1973 and 2018, and then optimal sectoral portfolio allocations over the same...

This paper compares the immunization performance of alternative single and multiple factor duration models, using Spanish government bond data, over 1, 2 and 3-year horizons. The aim is to assess whether the success of duration-matching strategies is primarily attributable to the particular...

This paper studies the investment decision of the Spanish households using a unique data set, the Spanish Survey of Household Finance (EFF). We propose a theoretical model in which households, given a fixed investment in housing, allocate their net wealth across bank time deposits, stocks, and...

This paper focuses on the Spanish government debt market in an attempt to evaluate the immunization performance of the polynomial duration model of Chambers and Carleton (Chambers, D.R., Carleton, W.T., 1988. A generalized approach to duration. In: Chen, A.H. (Ed.), Research in Finance, vol. 7,...