In this paper we examine whether the presence of institutional investors representatives on boards leads to observable differences in corporate finance. We use a panel of 162 quoted Spanish nonfinancial firms from 2004 to 2010. We find that institutional directors have diverse incentives to...

We employ a Bayesian estimation technique to construct firm-varying investment-cash flow sensitivities (ICFS) for a sample of 90 Spanish listed firms over a 10-year period (1999-2008). Then we analyze which variables are associated with the firm-level ICFS-estimates both univariately and...

The purpose of this work is to verify the existence of financial constraints for investment in Brazil, an emerging market with growing international visibility. Using panel data methodology and GMM, we estimate dynamic investment models based on the Euler equation and Tobin's q for a panel...