We study the empirical relationships among corporate governance, strategic diversification and financial performance in Mexico. The study uses data from 99 non-financial firms listed in the BMV (Mexican Stock Market) during 2004. The main relationships found are: Firms which property is...

We study the effects of financial structure and financial development on banking fragility. We develop our study by using fixed-effects panel-data regressions and by controlling the effects of certain banking indicators. We use individual and principal-components indicators of the activity, size...

En este artículo desarrollamos un marco microeconómico para estudiar las relaciones entre la privatización, la competencia por depósitos y el desempeño bancarios. Particularmente analizamos la privatización bancaria cuando se permiten estrategias competitivas de los tipos Cournot y...

Esta investigación presenta un estudio comparativo de los rendimientos cambiarios latinoamericanos, en el que se usó la metodología de cointegración de Johansen y los modelos asimétricos TGARCH y EGARCH. Los resultados indican que las volatilidades de los rendimientos de Argentina, Brasil,...

The pricing of commodity derivatives requires that the underlying asset be modelled with mean reversion and high volatility. We develop closed formulas to price the spot of the commodity, its future, and to price a call option on the spot and on the commodity future, in the real world and under...

In this article we develop a microeconomic framework to study the relationships among privatization, competition for deposits and performance in banking. Particularly, we analyze banking privatization when competitive strategies of the Cournot and Stackelberg types are allowed. Our findings show...

We develop an investigation regarding the determinants of the stock prices in six Latin American emerging markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru). We test the traditional Ohlson model and an international version of it. The international model includes the Dow Jones index...

We study how the ownership and control structures may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We study them with aggregate indexes and the assessment of several regression sets. We use measures of ownership, management and agency costs. The econometric analysis uses...

We study how competition and corporate governance may explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. We develop the study with indexes of market concentration and agency costs and OLS regressions. The analysis uses longitudinal census data. Our results suggest that investment is...

We study how different measures of market concentration explain investment decisions of Mexican manufacturing firms. The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index is the traditional measure of market structure concentration. The Dominance Index is a competition measure used by Mexican regulators. The...