Este trabajo trata de profundizar en el papel de la información del momento económico cuando ésta se incorpora a los modelos de valoración de activos. Para ello, en primer lugar, se hace una descripción de la teoría de valoración de activos que engloba todos los modelos de valoración...

Previous studies show that existing correlations between national returns are higher than correlations between the national growth rates of fundamental variables. This paper examines the ability of intertemporal asset pricing models to explain crosscountry correlations of national returns. We...

We discuss whether stock returns in Spain are predictable using a proxy for the logarithm of the consumption-aggregate wealth ratio, specifically the deviations of the common trend in consumption, labor income, and household asset holdings. The predictability regression used is based on...

In the last few years, the empirical literature has documented that existing correlations between national returns are higher than correlations between the national growth rates of fundamental variables. In this paper we study the ability of intertemporal asset pricing models to explain...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the performance of Spanish mutual funds between 1999 and 2003. Design/methodology/approach – The methodolgy uses the stochastic discount factor (SDF) framework across a variety of models developed in the recent asset pricing literature. This approach is a...

We quantify the role of financial factors behind the sluggish post-crisis performance of European firms. We use a firm-bank-sovereign matched database to identify separate roles for firm and bank balance sheet weaknesses arising from changes in sovereign risk and aggregate demand conditions. We...