This paper analyses four key markets within the European context. In this context, where the level of analyst coverage is lower than in the US setting, we aim to ascertain whether the origin of optimism in analyst forecasts in these markets is mainly strategic or whether it also contains an...

This paper analyses the role of investor sentiment in the contemporaneous dynamics of spot and futures markets and in volatility spillovers between them. To explore this issue, we analyse spot and futures markets on stock market indexes in different countries: the S&P500 for the US, and a...

This paper analyzes the investor sentiment effect in four key European stock markets: France, Germany, Spain and the UK. The findings show that sentiment has a significant influence on returns, varying in intensity across markets. The variation appears to involve both stock characteristics and...

This article uses a direct test of the impact of economic news on stock volatility. The main interest is to test whether the asymmetric response of volatility can be due to the effect of bad news. To do this, this study takes items of news into account as exogenous variables. The analysis is...

This paper analyses the relationship between proxy variables for informed trading in the options market and a set of exogenous news variables. The aim was to test directly for the presence or absence of informed trading in the options market and for the possible impact of this trading on...

En el presente trabajo se examina la valoración relativa de las acciones nuevas y viejas pertenecientes a las ampliaciones de capital con derechos de suscripción en el mercado bursátil español. Para ello se estudia la formación de precios durante el periodo de suscripción de las acciones...

El presente artículo estudia la persistencia de los resultados de los fondos de inversión españoles para el período 1992 a 1999. Los resultados obtenidos informan de la existencia de una relación positiva y significativa entre medidas de resultado de distintas referencias temporales....

This study analyzes the effect of the expiration of the Ibex‐35 Index derivatives, as well as the first four stock options traded in the Spanish Equity Derivatives Exchange, on the return, conditional volatility, and trading volume of the underlying assets. The analysis covers the period from...