{"title":"The aftermarket performance of Spanish REITs","authors":"Leticia Castaño, Josefina Farinos, Ana M. Ibáñez","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2021.1927531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2021.1927531","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Since 2013, when the market for REITs started in Spain, the number of these investment vehicles has grown steadily. At the end of 2019, Spanish REITs ranked third in Europe in terms of market capitalisation, and first in terms of the number of REITs. This research investigates the abnormal performance of REITs in the Spanish market for 6-, 12- and 24-month post-admission windows during the period from November 2013 to January 2020. We obtain evidence that issuers experience economically and statistically significant negative abnormal returns during the two years after going public. These results are robust to the different metrics, estimations and tests used. The differentiating characteristics of the market analysed (mainly the fact that the flotations were not carried out through an Initial Public Offering, unlike most previous studies, but through a direct listing procedure) are particularly relevant to determine the level of aftermarket performance.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131655387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juan Manuel Iglesias García, Luís Otero González, Pablo Durán Santomil
{"title":"Value investing: application of different strategies to equity mutual funds","authors":"Juan Manuel Iglesias García, Luís Otero González, Pablo Durán Santomil","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2021.1909318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2021.1909318","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper we have analysed the performance of several value investing strategies for Eurozone equity mutual funds. We have executed an empirical study of what the application of this technique implies, with its different variants, to large-cap equity funds. This has allowed us to analyse different value investment strategies, and to see which are the most profitable. Since they are defined by parameters, or ratios, the next step in this study has been to analyse the sensitivity of investors’ profitability in accordance with how effective choosing mutual funds is based on certain ratios, or a possible combination of several of them. Our results support that an investment strategy combining value (undervalued stocks) and quality (high ROA) leads to success when investing in Eurozone equity mutual funds.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125705061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pedro Luis Vega-Gutierrez, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sanz
{"title":"Interest rates, liquidity and the corporate financing decision throughout the business cycle: a European analysis","authors":"Pedro Luis Vega-Gutierrez, Juan Antonio Rodriguez-Sanz","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2021.1914388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2021.1914388","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The global financial crisis has shown that money affects the real economy. This study examines the influence of the price and stock of money in the economy on capital structure throughout the business cycle during the last financial crisis, with particular focus on the roles of long- and short-term interest rates, spread rates, and liquidity as reflected in the supply and velocity of money. The results, for a panel of listed European firms, indicate the significant impact of these variables on leverage, which they find to be linked positively to long- and short-term interest rates and negatively to term spread in both phases (expansion and recession) of the business cycle. They also suggest that liquidity requirements play a crucial role in the corporate financing decision. Finally, the speed of adjustment to the target debt ratio, normally significantly lower during recessions than during expansions, appears subject to business cycle fluctuations.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114936650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family ownership and corporate social responsibility disclosure","authors":"Abdullah Alsaadi","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2021.1904661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2021.1904661","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the association between family ownership and the level of CSR disclosure, and to what extent country-level institutional differences and level of industry risk differences influence this association. Using a sample of firms domiciled across 14 European countries for the period from 2010 to 2017, the empirical results show that there is a negative association between family ownership and CSR disclosure. The study also indicates that both institutional environments and the industry risk have influence on the association between family ownership and CSR disclosure. In particular, family-owned firms domiciled in coordinated market economies demonstrate a higher degree of CSR disclosure in comparison to their counterparts operating in liberal market economies. Further, the results show various levels of associations between family ownership and CSR disclosure, as well as social and environmental disclosures, for family-owned firms domiciled in the sub-categories of CMEs. In terms of industry risk, family-owned firms operating in high-risk industries have higher scores of CSR compared to firms in low-risk industries. Moreover, family-owned firms that operate in high-risk industries have higher scores of environmental disclosure, compared to social disclosure, in order to increase their legitimacy on environmental issues.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127698336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of a switch of management company on pension plan fees","authors":"I. Abínzano, L. Muga, R. Santamaría","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2021.1896195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2021.1896195","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The impact of a switch of management company on pension plan fees is analysed by comparing the effects on employer-sponsored versus individual defined-contribution private pension plans in Spain. This framework is ideal because the two types differ significantly both in plan governance structure and consequently in the degree of bargaining power held by the decision-maker. In addition, intense bank restructuring, which has greatly modified the Spanish pension plan map, provides an interesting analytical context for the identification of causal links, because it is a scenario that features shocks exogenous to the relationship under analysis. The results show that a switch of management company significantly reduces management fees for employer-sponsored plans when the management change is not due to the bank restructuring process, on the contrary a switch of management company increases fees for individual pension plans.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"2016 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130042077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International diversification and performance in family firm: Exploring nonlinear relationships with the governance structure in an emerging economy","authors":"Christian Espinosa-Méndez, Mauricio Jara","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2021.1886453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2021.1886453","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, we researched the relationship between international diversification and performance in family firms in an emerging economy. Likewise, from the perspective of the governance structure, we investigated non-linear relationships between business group membership, concentration of ownership as well as pyramid ownership with the performance of internationally diversified family firms. Considering a sample of 83 companies that have been listed on the Santiago de Chile Stock Exchange during the period between 2003 and 2013, we find an inverted U relationship between international diversification and performance; a U relationship between international diversification and performance in family firms; an inverted U relationship between the performance of internationalised family firms and affiliation to a business group; a U relationship between the performance of internationalised family firms and concentration of ownership; and a non-linear relationship in the inverted U form between the performance of internationalised family firms and high divergence between control and cash flow rights and U in the case of low divergence.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133402486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sonia Baños-Caballero, Pedro J. García‐Teruel, P. Martínez‐Solano
{"title":"The speed of adjustment in net operating working capital: an international study","authors":"Sonia Baños-Caballero, Pedro J. García‐Teruel, P. Martínez‐Solano","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2020.1864176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2020.1864176","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses whether there are differences in the speed of adjustment in net operating working capital (NWC) across countries. Unlike prior research, which reported that the adjustment speed of any current item is always rapid, we find that the speed of adjustment to NWC targets depends on a country’s investor protection and financial development. Specifically, using a sample of firms from 30 countries, we show that NWC adjustment speeds vary across countries, and they are faster for companies that operate in countries with stronger investor protection and greater financial development.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"456 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125798368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variance risk premium and expected currency return: the story is different at the tails of the distribution","authors":"B. Sahin","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2020.1863127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2020.1863127","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper investigates the prediction power of variance risk premium of domestic currency over the currency return for five major emerging market currencies controlling after the impact of past exchange rate developments and asymmetries in the variance risk premium, and the dependence between variance risk premium and currency return at different quantiles. The OLS regression results show that higher (lower) variance risk premium leads appreciation (depreciation) of domestic currency against US Dollar and this relationship holds in after controlling asymmetries in the variance risk premium and past currency returns. Besides, the results don’t confirm an asymmetric effect of the variance risk premium and a linearly increasing effect of variance risk premium conditional on different quantiles of past currency return. Finally, quantile-on-quantile regression (QQR) results show that the negative association of variance risk premium and currency return reverse to be positive at the tails.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126376399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Salvador Muñoz, Luis Tormo García, M. C. Ramos-Herrera
{"title":"Bank rating migrations before and since the onset of the financial crisis","authors":"Carlos Salvador Muñoz, Luis Tormo García, M. C. Ramos-Herrera","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2020.1805953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2020.1805953","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper analyses bank rating dynamics in Europe and the United States from 2000 to 2016. In particular, two questions are addressed: (i) whether the rating agencies replicate prior changes in ratings made by other agencies (the lead-lag strategy) and (ii) whether previous rating signals (changes in ratings and in watchlist status) issued by an agency influence the likelihood of that agency making further rating changes (rating momentum). The results obtained constitute further evidence of the interdependence between the downgrades and upgrades issued by pairs of agencies. This interdependence increased significantly since the onset of the global financial crisis, when banks experienced a significant deterioration in their financial situation and the rating agencies were in the spotlight. The results also provide evidence that rating momentum is an important factor in predicting future rating actions and that, following the onset of the crisis, agencies are more likely to conduct subsequent downgrades than upgrades. Therefore, the findings suggest that rating dynamics are good predictors of upcoming rating actions, and that CRAs adopted more conservative behaviour since the onset of the crisis.","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116876686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EUROPEAN ACCOUNTING: HOPWOOD VS BREXIT on the development of the Spanish accounting academic community within the framework of the European Accounting Association","authors":"L. Cañibano","doi":"10.1080/02102412.2020.1824114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02102412.2020.1824114","url":null,"abstract":"It has now been ten years since the death of the greatest proponent of the European academic accounting community: Professor Anthony G. Hopwood†, the eminent researcher and architect of the vast ne...","PeriodicalId":244340,"journal":{"name":"Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting / Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124172748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}