El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los efectos derivados de la existencia de imperfecciones en los mercados de deuda sobre la evolución del capital productivo de las empresas. La aportación principal del artículo es la presentación de un método para contrastar la existencia de...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los efectos derivados de la existencia de imperfecciones en los mercados de deuda sobre la evolución del capital productivo de las empresas. Las imperfecciones que se consideran son, la existencia de primas sobre el nivel de endeudamiento, y el...

Ex-ante cost of aggregate fluctuations consist of all individual and social cost expanded by optimizing agents aiming to prevent or reduce fluctuations of consumption. These are measured by the cost of resources used to attain the level of consumption volatility currently observed. This paper...

The condensed research article presents some innovative research results on the venture capital optimal investment portfolio strategies selection in the diffusion-type financial systems in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the incomplete information, which are...

We propose a unified explanation for two seemingly disparate empirical findings: the negative abnormal returns of distressed stocks, and of small growth stocks. Based on a counterintuitive result relating option prices to jump risk (Merton 76), we show via an investment valuation model that...

We propose a unified explanation for two seemingly disparate empirical findings: the negative abnormal returns of distressed stocks, and of small growth stocks. Based on a counterintuitive result relating option prices to jump risk (Merton (1976)), we show via an investment valuation model that...

We develop a firm valuation model with repeated expansion and contraction options to show operating profitability is a proxy for time-varying systematic risk. Relative to riskier assets, the proportionate value of contraction options increase as profitability falls, lowering the firm beta....

We develop a zero beta industry model of growth options to explain the conflicting empirical findings on the relation between stock returns and idiosyncratic return volatility at the firm level. By allowing for the volatility of the underlying idiosyncratic choice variables to exhibit...

The present paper attempts to assess whether at all and in what ways the development of alternative capital markets may help an additional mobilisation of the given economy's domestic financial resources, and, consequently, contribute significantly to economic development. Against the...

Este trabajo analiza el efecto a nivel de las firmas del ciclo crediticio que se observó en Colombia a lo largo de la década de los noventa. Con base en el enfoque estándar de la ecuación de Euler para la inversión y un amplio panel de datos para firmas de varias ramas de la actividad...