This paper aims to study the different models of implementing the internet in financial brokerage, especially in trying to identify the main factors that explain the success of Bankinter in this area of business. Bankinter's position, with respect to the other financial entities in the Spanish...

The taxation of capital gains realized by European private investors in mutual funds must be analysed in order to detect distortions of competition of this relevant financial industry in the European Union. Using a contingency table methodology in different investment scenes, we detect that...

Past literature shows that tests of performance persistence do not agree in the most important mutual fund markets and so there is a need for further research in other smaller countries such as Spain, one of the biggest growth fund markets in Europe in the nineties. Spanish equity funds...

In this work, we evaluate the use of public and private information by Spanish fund managers by means of an analysis of their traditional and conditional performance. Furthermore, we repeat this analysis for various fund subsets compiling their different characteristics, which allows us to...

This is a study about how performance influences on the behaviour of investors in Spanish domestic equity funds over an eight-year period. This is a broad timeframe given the relative immaturity of this market when compared to other more developed markets such as the American or English, among...

The aim of this work is to examine the influence of mutual fund flows on market timing models, thus providing unbiased timing coefficients. However, as this control is motivated by the existing relationship between mutual fund flows and market returns, we first analyse this relationship,...

Pension funds in Spain have become of considerable importance in recent years. In fact, many studies have focused on fund performance and the adverse impact of fees, although little work has been done on analysis of the determinants of fees. Even though fees are restricted by legal limits in...

This article investigates the performance of Spanish pension funds using a range of linear and nonlinear performance models. As the sample presents characteristics of higher-order moments, traditional performance measures are distorted. We generate alternative performance models which include...

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the first and largest international scheme for the trading of greenhouse gas emission allowances (European Union Allowances (EUA)). Considering that the global economic crisis is hurting corporate profits, analysing the implications of CO₂...