En los últimos 10 y 17 años, la rentabilidad promedio de los planes de pensiones fue inferior a la inversión en bonos del estado. Sólo 2 de los 170 planes con 17 años de historia tuvieron una rentabilidad superior a la de los bonos del Estado. Ninguno de los 170 planes con 17 años de...

During 2003, 87% of the companies in the S&P 500 created value, compared to just 17% in 2002. The market value of the 500 companies in 2003 was $10.1 trillion, compared to $7.9 trillion in 2002. The top shareholder value creators in 2003 were Intel, Cisco, Citigroup, General Electric and Exxon....

The arrival of the Internet offers new opportunities for value creation. The new technology simultaneously affects demand and cost structures, leading to a radical transformation of existing market structures. As a result, appropriation of any value created has become more challenging....

Entre Entre diciembre de 1991 y diciembre de 2007, la rentabilidad media anual para los accionistas de Iberdrola fue del19,7%, sensiblemente superior a la del IBEX 35 (15,1%): 1 euro invertido en acciones de Iberdrola en diciembre de 1991 se convirtió en 17,7 euros en diciembre de 2007,...

In this paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm's innovation process with this firm's investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied research, investments in basic research, and investments in intellectual property protection. Only when...

Diversified firms trade at a discount relative to similar single-segment firms. We argue in this paper that this observed discount is not per se evidence that diversification destroys value. Firms choose to diversify. Firm characteristics, which make firms diversify might also cause them to be...

This paper is a review of the recommendations about the equity premium found in the main finance and valuation textbooks. We review several editions of books written by authors such as Brealey and Myers; Copeland, Koller and Murrin (McKinsey); Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe; Bodie, Kane and Marcus;...

En este documento se cuantifica la creación de valor para los accionistas de Bankinter entre diciembre de 1991 y diciembre de 2006. En ese periodo el aumento de la capitalización de Bankinter fue 3.866 millones de euros, el aumento del valor para los accionistas fue 5.205 millones de euros, y...

We develop valuation formulae for a company that maintains a fixed book-value leverage ratio and claim that it is more realistic than to assume, as Miles-Ezzell (1980) do, a fixed market-value leverage ratio. The value of tax shields depends only on the present value of the net increases of...

Spain has traditionally been known as a country of emigrants. However, in the last decade, Spain has experienced an unprecedented boom of immigration from three localized areas: Latin America, Africa and East Europe. In this paper, we study the behaviour of recent immigrants in the Spanish...