Hypothesis testing and statistical precision in the context of nonparametric efficiency and productivity measurement have been investigated since the early 1990s. Recent contributions focus on this matter through the use of resampling methods?i.e., bootstrapping techniques. However, empirical...

This paper analyses the regional wages in Spain and tests their relationship with the different regional human capital endowments, using an approach that takes into account the possible measurement error in human capital indicators. The results indicate that, when allowing for the possibility of...

Recent studies have extensively used logit or probit models to examine hypothesis on merger motives and corporate bankruptcy. In this paper we analyze some methodological issues of using binary choice models in this framework and it is proposed an alternative methodology: The Multinomial Logit...

Este trabajo aporta evidencia acerca de la importancia de los ingresos de divisas por turismo en el crecimiento económico español experimentado en las últimas tres décadas. Los resultados econométricos indican que existe una relación de largo plazo entre el crecimiento de la renta del...

A fundamental question about the analysis of financial information is the potential manipulations that could be introduced by insiders in the information that is revealed to investors. In this context, this article is focused on the analysis of abnormal accruals as a potential instrument to...

In the advent of Customer Relationship Management, a more accurate profile of the consumer is needed. The objective of this paper is to show the usefulness of knowing consumer¿s complete utility function through his/her marginal utilities. This approach allows one to form groups of individuals...

This paper studies the empirical relationship between inequality and economic growth. It estimates a dynamic panel data model that controls for fixed effects and, therefore, solves the problem of omitted variable bias present in cross-section regressions. Forbes?(2000) results suggest that...

This work makes an empirical evaluation for the Spanish market data of an asset pricing model based on the proposal of Campbell (1993). Due to the log-linear approximation to the budget constrain, the author obtains a model that does not need consumption data in which the factors that tries to...

During the last fifteen years the competitive conditions under which Spanish banking firms operate have become much tighter. Deregulation has affected both banks and savings banks, allowing them to expand geographically and to choose a less regulation-conditioned output mix.This paper analyzes...

Based on two theoretical works, Burgstahler y Dichev (1997) and Zhang (2000), this paper tests an option-style valuation approach whose main prediction is that market value is a convex function of both earnings and book value, where the function depends on the relative values of earnings and...