We study the spillover effect from equity offerings over dual-class shares. Whereas, evidence has been found that a seasoned equity offering improves stock liquidity, the effect over the liquidity of different type shares of the same firm has not been explored. We use equity offer- ings of five...

Market microstructure models imply that informed trading reduces liquidity. We test for the effect of the frequency of new releases, as a proxy of information arrival, on liquidity in the Chilean stock market. We find that news release frequency is strongly related to improved liquidity. Those...

Spanish Abstract: Propósito - Se estudian los determinantes y la evolución de la actividad bursátil mensual en el mercado accionario colombiano de 2007 a 2016.Diseño/metodología/enfoque – Para ello se emplean modelos de series de tiempo tipo ARIMAX y GARCH, incluyendo variables exógenas,...

Does the disposition effect appear in bond trades as in stocks?. We apply the Odean's measure (1998) to a proprietary transaction database with unique investor ids from an emerging market exchange that holds both stock and bond trading. We find some disposition effect in treasuries, but much...

A branch of the literature in international finance has tried to give a definitive answer to the question, who is better informed in an emerging market, Foreigners or Locals?. We measured the probability of informed trading (PIN) for the Jakarta Stock Exchange for two types of investors,...

Resumen:Reflejan los mercados accionarios los fundamentales macroeconómicos de un país?. La hipótesis de eficiencia semifuerte (Fama 1970) implica que los mercados accionarios deben reaccionar inmediatamente, y sin sobre ni subreacción predecible, a las sorpresas en los anuncios...

Does informed trading affect emerging stock markets? Market microstructure literature establishes that information asymmetry reduces liquidity and moves prices in the direction of the trade. We test for this theoretical implication by running the dynamic PIN model of Easley, Engle, O’Hara y Wu...

This paper contributes to the current literature of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) by studying the existence of waves and the determinants of M&A activity in the economies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. From a sample of 2,490 M&As announcements reported by Thomson One...