Following a requirement of the local regulator, different Colombian security issuers complied with the norm, producing a corporate governance code. This article studies the effects on accounting performance and financing decisions of Colombian firms after these firms issue their own corporate...

Since 2007 Colombian listed firms, non-financial and financial, are required to disclose their compliance to a governance country code. The compliance is interpreted as the level of governance and used as independent variable for regressions looking for the determinants of performance and...

This paper studies the manipulation of the profits reported by non-listed Colombian companies. First, we examine whether the distribution of profits shows a discontinuity around zero earnings, an empirical fact evident in other countries. Second, we investigate whether this discontinuity results...

The Spanish version of this paper can be found http://ssrn.com/abstract=1899685This paper estimates the value of tax shields, using the discounted cash flow method for 23 major non financial firms listed in the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (Colombian Stock Exchange) between 2001 and 2010. Our...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1919305This paper estimates the value of tax shields, using the discounted cash flow method for 23 major non financial firms listed in the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (Colombian Stock Exchange) between 2001 and 2010. Our...

Operations Research and Capital Budgeting techniques were introduced in Colombia in the late 50's. In a survey conducted during 1980, about one-half of the large firms in Bogota, Colombia use discounted methods for investment decisions, as compared to about two-third of the firms in the United...