Lafuente, Juan A.; Muñoz, Manuel Illueca - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004
In November 2001, the Spanish Official Exchange for Financial Futures and options launched the mini IBEX-35 futures contract. Following the seminal paper of Bessembider and Seguin (1992), this paper analyzes the effects of the introduction of the mini-futures contract in the Spanish stock index...