When calculating Tax Savings, TS we are confronted with a strange mix of accounting accrual and market value when involving TS in the calculation of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital, WACC or the Cost of Equity, Ke. Firms earn the right to TS once they accrue the interest expense and they...

When calculating Tax Savings, TS we are confronted with a strange mix of accounting accrual and market value when involving TS in the calculation of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital, WACC or the Cost of Equity, Ke. Firms earn the right to TS once they accrue the interest expense and they...

An important variable absent in agency cost analyses is the extent of cooperation among the manager and the investors. Two types of cooperation are studied: 1.) generalized cooperation, a concept close to social capital; and 2.) discriminating cooperation, a concept close to cooperation with...

This paper studies the relationship between ownership concentration, family ownership, management, and market and accounting performance for 59 industrial firms listed in the Lima Stock Exchange. Data go from 1999 to 2005. We find an inverse U-shaped relationship between ownership concentration...

Following a requirement of the local regulator, different Colombian security issuers complied with the norm, producing a corporate governance code. This article studies the effects on accounting performance and financing decisions of Colombian firms after these firms issue their own corporate...

Since 2007 Colombian listed firms, non-financial and financial, are required to disclose their compliance to a governance country code. The compliance is interpreted as the level of governance and used as independent variable for regressions looking for the determinants of performance and...

This paper studies the manipulation of the profits reported by non-listed Colombian companies. First, we examine whether the distribution of profits shows a discontinuity around zero earnings, an empirical fact evident in other countries. Second, we investigate whether this discontinuity results...