One of the main interests of market microstructure is the estimation of the bid–ask spread components from financial data, specially the adverse selection component given the implications of its own existence. As aresult, several empirical models based on price time–series statistical...

[ES] El paradigma de la eficiencia ha sido puesto en entredicho en las últimas décadas como consecuencia de la obtención de rendimientos anormales, estadística y económicamente significativos, durante amplios periodos de tiempo tras algunas importantes decisiones empresariales. No obstante,...

Market efficiency has been questioned in the last years as several papers found abnormal returns economically and statistically significant over long horizons after main firm decisions. Nevertheless, the conceptual and statistical problems related with the estimation and test of long-term...

We investigate if the long-run underperformance in the year after the SEO is related to behavioural biases that led investors to adjust their pre-issue over optimism slowly. We also examine the existence of arbitrage costs that preclude mispricing from being corrected rapidly by sophisticated...

We investigate the operating and stock market performance of Spanish state-owned enterprises (SOEs) privatized through public share issue offerings (SIPs) from 1990 to 2001, when the last SIP was conducted. We compare the performance of SOE and privately-owned firms. We find significant...

As theoretical microstructure models developed, several researches have empirically investigated the relevant role of transaction costs and its components in the stock market dynamics and their applications in several similar topics (corporate finance, market efficiency, etc.). Alternatively,...

This study investigates the informational role of thin options markets, specifically the Spanish options market. Firstly, we examine the effect of options markets by analysing stock market reaction to earnings news, conditional on the availability of options markets. Secondly, we examine options...

We examine the determinants of the decision to acquire a listed vs. an unlisted firm and extend the previous evidence of value creation after controlling for endogeneity due to self–selection bias. We also control for market valuation conditions, finding that results are conditional to them....

Since 2013, when the market for REITs started in Spain, the number of these investment vehicles has grown steadily. At the end of 2019, Spanish REITs ranked third in Europe in terms of market capitalisation, and first in terms of the number of REITs (EPRA, 2020). This research investigates the...