We give a new way to price American options, using Samuelson´s formula. We first obtain the option price corresponding to a European option at time t, weighting it by the probability that the underlying asset takes the value S at time t. This factor is given by the solution of the Fokker-Planck...

Though the going public decision has been addressed by several theories, empirical research is particularly scarce to European countries. This is the first research in the Spanish market that investigates ex ante and ex post characteristics of IPO firms, using a large database of private held...

A fin de interpretar el desempeño del crédito bancario observado durante los años 90 y principios del actual decenio en Colombia, se construyó un modelo teórico de equilibrio general dinámico. Además, se puso a prueba econométrica la ecuación generada en tal modelo que establece una...

En este documento se describen en detalle diversas metodologías que permiten calcular dos medidas utilizadas para cuantificar el riesgo de mercado asociado a un activo financiero: el valor en riesgo, VaR y el Expected Shortfall, ES. Los métodos analizados se dividen en dos grupos. En el primer...

This study analyzes the capacity of multivariated models constructed from genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks to predict the sign of the weekly variations of the Asian stock-market indexes Nikkei225, Hang Seng, Shanghai Composite, Seoul Comp

The aim of this paper consists of describing, analysing and modelling the dynamic of dailyprice series and its volatility in the Spanish Wholesale Electricity Market. The article describes themain characteristics of the sector after the deregulation process and the factors that establish...

This paper analyzes the relationship between ownership concentration andshares liquidity for a sample of 115 listed firms that traded during the period from April2000 to December 2000. Results show a negative influence of ownership of directors,major shareholders and outside shareholders on...

To obtain benefits from capital globalization, it is necessary for the domestic financial market to be well-developed and regulated. This paper analyzes the effect of capital globalization on the financial system from an institutional perspective. Institutional change is produced by the market...

Este artículo intenta responder a tres preguntas: ¿fueron las administradoras buenas agentes de los aportantes? ¿cuánto es realmente la proporción invertida en el sector público? ¿cómo incentivar la financiación de la inversión real? Durante el período septiembre 1994 a julio de 2001...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of financial development on economic growth. The contribution of both capital and credit market movements on the dynamics of Mexico's gross domestic product (GDP) over the period 1996-2017 is empirically tested using an Autoregressive Distributive...