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The impact of women’s leadership in local governments: the case of Spain
(Routledge, 2021-03-26)
The main objective of this article is to analyze whether the gender of the mayor and the municipal council members affects compliance with the principles of budgetary stability and financial sustainability established in ...
Opinion-shopping: firm versus partner-level evidence
(Routledge, 2021)
Employing Lennox’s (2000) methodology on a uniquely long time series of Spanish companies’ data, we find evidence of successful audit opinion-shopping through the firm switching decision. However, in contrast to Chen et ...
Determinants of pension plan fees in Spain
(Taylor & Francis, 2009)
Pension plans and funds represent a substantial part of the welfare systems in both Europe and Spain. One of the most important factors in the choice of a plan or fund is the performance it obtains. In view of the influence ...
Decentralization and efficiency of local government
(Springer-Verlag, 2010)
This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000. To this end, we carried out a two-stage activity analysis in which the performance ...
Optimal Beats Naive Diversification: Asset Allocation Using High-Frequency Data
(Pageant Media Ltd, 2020-09-20)
This article evaluates the usefulness of high-frequency data in optimal portfolio choice. The authors use a comprehensive list of major stock indexes and different frequencies of observations. Furthermore, they consider ...
Looking for sustainable development: Socially responsible mutual funds and the low‐carbon economy
(John Wiley and Sons, 2020)
Sustainable investment responds to demands for carbon and climate‐neutral societies. To address the urgency around climate change and provide investors with more qualified information, Morningstar has developed the Low ...
Lights and shadows on sustainability rating scoring
(Springer, 2014)
Many organizations currently publish sustainability ratings that quantify the sustainability of firms by aggregating scores. These organizations analyze companies in economic, social, environmental and corporate governance ...
The impact of distressed economies on the EU sovereign market
(Elsevier, 2013-07)
Financially distressed economies inside the European Union (EU) are being blamed for producing a general increase in borrowing costs. This article analyzes the channels of default risk transmission within the EU countries ...
The Effectiveness of the public support policies for the european industry financing as a contribution to sustainable development
(Springer Netherlands, 2010)
In recent years, the debate about the role of the Public Institutions in the fields of corporate social responsibility and sustainable development has gained momentum. Nevertheless, the ambiguity of the latter concepts ...
Intraday realised volatility relationships between the S&P 500 spot and futures market
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
In this paper, we provide additional evidence on the intraday lead-lag relationship in the S&P 500 stock index futures market. In particular, we focus on the dynamic interactions of market volatility. In contrast to previous ...