Este trabajo analiza el comportamiento conjunto de los flujos de capital internacionales, en la frecuencia del ciclo de negocios y durante crisis financieras, por parte de residentes y no residentes. El trabajo muestra que, en relación a los flujos de capital netos, los flujos de capital brutos...

Essay 1 tests the ability of a commercial structural credit default swap pricing model to predict market spreads. Consistent with several previous studies testing other models, we find our model unable to price credit risk precisely and observe an illiquidity premium reflecting a credit risk...

The first chapter of this dissertation estimates the relative contributions of two major exchanges on crude oil futures to the price discovery process-- Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), using trade-by-trade data in 2008. The study also empirically analyzes...

The first chapter of this dissertation examines the returns to frequent acquirers from emerging markets and analyzes the cross-country variations in cumulative abnormal returns. The sample consists of 5,147 transactions carried out by firms from 17 common and civil-law countries during the...

This paper examines the impact of automated trading in the stock market on the information transmission between the stock and futures markets. This issue is of particular relevance given the trend of exchanges to introduce automated trading. We focus on the Australian market as its institutional...

The EU protects EU growers of 15 kinds offresh fruits and vegetables against international competitionnot only by the means of ad valorem tariffs of up to 20%,but also by the EU entry-price system (EPS), which isdesigned to restrict imports below the product-specific,politically designated entry...

This paper summarizes studies of carbon (C) mitigation potential and costs of about 40 forestry options in seven developing countries. Each study uses the same methodological approach - Comprehensive Mitigation Assessment Process (COMAP) - to estimate the above parameters between 2000 and 2030....