How do financial markets incorporate news? This paper argues that one piece of news not only has direct effects on asset prices and market volatility, but it can also alter the relative importance of other news. Studying the reaction of UK short-term interest rates to the Bank of England’s...

In this paper, we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...

Efficiency in stock markets is essential for economic stability and growth. This study investigates the efficiency and herding behavior of the stock markets from the top economies of the world (known as G20 countries). We classify stock market indices using MSCI classification for the developed...

A new methodology for testing and dating economic bubbles based on a sign test with recursive median adjustment is presented. The methodology, originally proposed by Soo and Shin (2001) to detect random walks, is well-suited, theoretically, to deal with the many features of high-frequency...

El proceso de desregulación del sector eléctrico en la Unión Europea generó acciones estratégicas de parte de las empresas del sector que han llevado al reordenamiento de su mercado de energía eléctrica. Una serie de fusiones y adquisiciones ocurrieron a raíz de ese proceso. Este trabajo...

La Aplicación de Modelos EGARCH a la prueba del CAPM párr Colombia permite concluir Que Este sí da Bajo conditions de Alta volatilidad Y Que Se Puede utilizar Como Herramienta para el Análisis Financiero y las Proyecciones de Rentabilidad de Activos Financieros y reales. Igualmente, los...

Financial basics and intuition stresses the importance of investment horizon for risk management and asset allocation. However, the beta parameter of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is invariant to the holding period. Such contradiction is due to the assumption of long-term independence...

ResumenEl objetivo de este artículo es determinar la existencia del "efecto día de semana" en las bolsas de valores de seis países latinoamericanos, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Argentina y Perú, durante el periodo comprendido entre 1993 y 2007. Para ello se analizan los diferentes...

Resumen: La teoría de precios por arbitraje establece que el retorno esperado de un portafolio de activos está relacionado con factores que caracterizan la economía y se puede asociar a variables macroeconómicas. En este estudio se realiza una contrastación empírica de la teoría de...

This study examines how the occurrence of natural disasters in the U.S. influences investor interest in green assets and actual investments, focusing on inflows into green ETFs as a proxy for non-fundamental demand. Event study analyses demonstrate both increases in investor interest in...