In this paper we investigate the importance of earnings quality as a determinant of cash holdings by companies, exploring among other factors the nature of earnings (positive or negative) and the level of financial disclosure, proxied by the market where firms are listed (Main or AIM-Alternative...

This paper analyzes the evolution of the banking system sensitivity to cross-border contagion in 2006-2011. The study is performed on the basis of the BIS data on cross-border exposures and the Bankscope data on Tier 1 capital of 20 banking systems (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland,...

This paper presents the first methodological proposal of estimation of the Lambda VaR. Our approach is dynamic and calibrated to market extreme scenarios, incorporating the need of regulators and financial institutions in more sensitive risk measures. We also propose a simple backtesting...

This paper examines if trade credit is as a substitute and/or a complement to bank credit in order to assess the existence of credit rationing. Using a panel dataset of 468 and 7019 Portuguese and Spanish small medium size enterprises for the period 1998-2006, and controlling for endogeneity...

To assess the existence of credit rationing, we examine if trade credit is a substitute and/or a complement to bank credit. Using a data set of Portuguese and Spanish small and medium sized enterprises, and controlling for endogeneity problems by using GMM estimators, our results confirm the...

This paper examines the equity market opening in Vietnam, a frontier market that has taken gradual steps of relaxing capital control, by analysing whether liberalization policies in the period 2009–15 have had an impact on informational efficiency. We applied time-varying Hurst exponent during...

We examine the use of trade credit in Western Europe by relying on a sample of 182,296 small firms for the period 2003-2013. Building on information asymmetry theory, we explore how a country’s culture can impact SMEs use of trade credit. We discover that countries’ cultural norms play a key...