The purpose of this work is double. On one side, we wish to examine if subsidizing the cost of debt has some influence on the firm value (debt plus equity) or if it is just a transfer from debt holders to shareholders. On the other hand, we wish to show that research in Finance, as in many...

By definition, Savings Banks form part of what is known as the social economy, so their investment policies must logically comply with objective efficiency and other more subjective social criteria. However, at different moments in time, accusations have been launched against their investment...

This paper proposes the mixed frequency conditional beta. We employ the MIDAS framework to decompose market betas into high and low frequency components. The total mixed frequency beta is the weighted average of these two components. Then, we analyze the macroeconomic determinants of stock...