This study analyzes how fund flows react to past performance in the dynamic Brazilian equity fund market over the period from 2001 to 2012. The study also tests for a “smart money” effect (Zheng, 1999), or whether funds that receive more money subsequently outperform those that receive less...

El presente documento busca presentar los principales conceptos de riesgos financieros presentes en la banca; en particular, se trabajará el caso de un banco peruano, considerando aspectos tales como la gestión de riesgos, Basilea III y la crisis económica internacional. El caso se desarrolla...

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo evaluar y cuantificar el riesgo cambiario en una empresa exporta- dora. Se inicia explicando el riesgo cambiario, seguido de un análisis cualitativo de volatilidad cambiaria del dólar versus el nuevo sol. Este análisis resulta relevante, debido a que...

We examine performance persistence in the large and growing Brazilian equity fund market from 2000 to 2012. We find a significant risk-adjusted spread between a portfolio of top- and bottom-performing funds, which supports the idea that performance persists. This spread remains after controlling...

This paper analyzes the dynamics ofthe American Depositary Receipt (ADR) of a Colombian bank (Bancolombia) in relation to its pricing factors (underlying (preferred) shares price, exchange rate and the US market index). The aim is to test if there is a long-term relation among these variables...

Este documento analiza la dinámica de los Recibos de Deposito Americanos (ADR) de un banco colombiano (Bancolombia) en relación con los factores que inciden en su precio (precio de las acciones (preferenciales) subyacentes, la tasa de cambio y el índice del mercado accionario de Estados...

Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, referred to as spin, reflects the outlet's attempt to simply create a memorable story....

During World War II nazi-Germany looted 145.000 kg of Dutch monetary gold. Eventually the Netherlands recovered nearby half of the stolen gold.

The Diamond-Dybvig model provides an explanation for: (1) the existence of banks as a risk sharing agreement between depositors against unexpected liquidity needs, (2) bank runs as an act of collective irrationality by rational depositors, and (3) the introduction of deposit insurance as an...

The theory of distributed lags is that any cause produces a supposed effect only after some lag in time, and that this effect is not felt all at once, but is distributed over a number of points in time. Irving Fisher initiated this theory and provided an empirical methodology in the 1920's. This...