Este trabajo tiene como objetivo examinar la evolución de algunas teoríassobre estructura de capital, desde el punto de vista de la economía fi nancieray que han surgido a partir de la década de 1950, con el fi n de poderevidenciar los diversos enfoques surgidos alrededor de este concepto...

While tax avoidance strategies result in greater after-tax cash flows, they can involve uncertain future outcomes, which can impose significant costs on firms. Thus, the extent to which tax avoidance increases firm risk is unclear. This paper re-examines the relation between tax avoidance and...

While prior research has extensively investigated the association between firm-level attributes and CEO's characteristics, there is little evidence on whether the managerial ability is associated with cash holdings. In this paper, we examine the link between managerial ability and corporate cash...

Spanish Abstract: Las pymes son consideradas de vital importancia en todo tejido empresarial y, el acceso a la financiación es considerado uno de sus grandes problemas. Este artículo pretende identificar las fuentes y mecanismos de financiación en las pymes de Villavicencio, para establecer...

The Spanish version of this paper can be found http://ssrn.com/abstract=1899685This paper estimates the value of tax shields, using the discounted cash flow method for 23 major non financial firms listed in the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (Colombian Stock Exchange) between 2001 and 2010. Our...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1919305This paper estimates the value of tax shields, using the discounted cash flow method for 23 major non financial firms listed in the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (Colombian Stock Exchange) between 2001 and 2010. Our...

There are various valuation methodologies applicable to both the financial evaluation of projects as to the valuation of companies. First, have developed methods of Discounted Cash Flows (DCF), which allow discounting, or bring to present value, a series of projected future cash flows over time....

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo estudiar la relaci¢n entre la estructura de propiedad y el valor de la empresa, teniendo en cuenta el potencial car cter end¢geno de la propiedad as¡ como las peculiaridades del sistema corporativo espa¤ol. El an lisis se realiza a partir de un panel...

This paper investigates the relationship between board of directors¿characteristics and firm value. We find a positive relationship between board ofdirectors¿ shareholdings and Tobin¿s Q. Endogenous treatment of these variables alsoreveals a positive relationship between Tobin¿s Q and board...

This article attempts to identify the default risk measure which best reflects the idiosyncratic context of public family firms. Seven accounting- and market-based measures are compared over a sample of 981 US family and non-family firms for the period 2000-2016. The results show that the...