El estudio de las rentabilidades de las operaciones de los insiders corporativos es un tema vigente de investigaci¢n por sus importantes implicaciones tanto cient¡ficas (sobre la eficiencia del mercado) como pol¡ticas (efectividad de la regulaci¢n del insider trading). El presente trabajo...

The current collapse of credit markets has left small and medium enterprises (SMEs) facing severe credit rationing. The practice of screening borrowers by risk level has become a paramount consideration for both lenders and firms. This paper represents the first empirical test of the screening...

This paper develops both univariate and multivariate distributions based on Gram-Charlier and Edgeworth expansions, attempting to ensure non negativity by exploiting the orthogonal properties of the Hermite polynomials. The article motivates the problems underlying some specifications (in...

We analyze the relationship between dividends and insiders' transactions in an attempt to determine whether insider trading modifies the interpretation of any signal sent by the increase/decrease in dividend payments. The aim is to determine whether insider transactions are as good signal as...

This paper introduces the Edgeworth-Sargan distribution on measuring Value-at-Risk of portfolios. The flexible parametric representation of this density makes it capable of improving the density fits (especially at the tails) and permits a straightforward method of percentile computation....

The current research examines the capacity of the Edgeworth-Sargan density on forecasting market crashes. Focusing on the 1987 stock market crash the performance of this distribution is compared to the Student's t concluding that the latter overestimates the risk. In contrast, and due to its...

Este trabajo es un estudio emp¡rico a partir de 103 casos de empresas multinacionales espa¤olas que han efectuado inversi¢n directa en el exterior. El trabajo analiza de forma desagregada los factores de activo, internalizaci¢n y de localizaci¢n. Entre los factores de activo destaca el...

El presente trabajo analiza la influencia de los mecanismos internos de control, los costes de agencia, la eficiencia empresarial, la posibilidad de sinergias fiscales y la posici¢n de liquidez como determinantes de los procesos de oferta p£blica de adquisici¢n (OPA) de sociedades cotizadas...

The point of view of customers has been neglected by most of the relationship marketing literature. This paper, which draws on the Morgan and Hunt's commitment-trust theory (1994), proposes a model that explains the causal origins of relational commitment and highlights the role of trust as a...