Purpose – The paper aims to examine the performance of Spanish mutual funds between 1999 and 2003. Design/methodology/approach - The methodolgy uses the stochastic discount factor (SDF) framework across a variety of models developed in the recent asset pricing literature. This approach is a...

This paper presents a model linking two financial markets (stocks and bonds) with the real business cycle, in the framework of the Consumption Capital Asset Pricing Model with Generalized Isoelastic Preferences. Besides interest rate term spread, the model includes a new variable to forecast...

This paper studies the properties of the continuous double auction trading mechanishm using an artificial market populated by heterogeneous computational agents. In particular, we investigate how changes in the population of traders and in market microstructure characteristics affect price...

En el presente trabajo estudiamos como las diferentes propuestas normativas que se han ido desarrollando en los últimos años en torno a la información contable sobre derivados financieros – con la presencia cada vez más próxima de las proposiciones del IASB – tuvieron una influencia...