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El informe de transparencia de las firmas auditoras: Evidencia del mercado español 2010-2013
2017
This paper looks into the Annual Transparency Reports published in Spain in 2010 as a consequence of the Spanish Auditing Act 12/2010, and in 2013 after the publication of the 2011 Spanish Auditing Regulation and the new European Union proposals. The results of this pioneer research in our country evidence a high level of transparency regarding the compulsory items legally required, showing an increasing trend from 2010 to 2013. However, there is a decrease in voluntary information in 2013. Our study reveals that bigger audit firms and firms less dependent on fees from consultancy services are the ones with higher transparency levels in their Annual Transparency Reports.
Holidays, weekends and range-based volatility
2020
Abstract This study analyses the effect of non-trading periods on the forecasting ability of S&P500 index range-based volatility models. We find that volatility significantly diminishes on the first trading day after holidays and weekends, but not after long weekends. Our findings indicate that models that include autoregressive terms that interact with dummies that allow us to capture changes in volatility levels after interrupting periods provide greater explanatory power than simple autoregressive models. Therefore, the shorter the length of the non-trading periods between two trading days, the higher the overestimation of the volatility if this effect is not considered in volatility for…
Predicting audit failure: evidence from auditing enforcement releases
2018
This study aims to identify the main determinants of audit failure and contribute to the current debate raised by recent European Union regulation on auditor’s tenure and economic policies to preve...
How efficient is maize production among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe? A comparison of semiparametric and parametric frontier efficiency analyses
2018
The controversial Fast Track Land Reform Programme in Zimbabwe that redistributes commercially-owned farmland to smallholder households has caused concerns about the efficiency of agricultural prod...
Do Spanish IPO firms fit the continental European model for going public?
2019
Este trabajo analiza los determinantes de la decisión de salir a bolsa en el mercado español de una muestra de empresas no financieras que llevaron a cabo una oferta pública inicial (OPI) de acciones en el período 1997-2013. Para ello, empleamos una serie de características relacionadas con las empresas y el entorno económico y los métodos de regresión logit para obtener el modelo que mejor se ajusta a nuestros datos, utilizando como muestra de control las empresas que podrían haber salido a bolsa en el mismo período, pero optaron por no hacerlo. En España, las empresas que salieron a bolsa se caracterizaron por ser relativamente más grandes y más arriesgadas que las que no lo hicieron. Ade…
Evaluating the Change Process for Business Risk Auditing: Legitimacy Experiences of non-Big 4 Auditors
2017
SUMMARY The business risk auditing (BRA) approach was developed in the late 1990s and partly incorporated into audit standards in the early 2000s. As such, BRA was a significant innovation in audit methodology. In our interview study, we examine the experiences of 38 non-Big 4 auditors toward the theorization and diffusion of BRA. We use the widely recognized framework from Greenwood, Suddaby, and Hinings (2002), emphasizing the importance of legitimacy within an organizational field, to evaluate the change process toward BRA. First, we observe that the theorization of the new concept of BRA was often of limited success as many non-Big 4 auditors found it to be too complex and remained unco…
Local bank competition and small business lending after the onset of the financial crisis
2016
This paper examines whether the effects of the financial crisis on the volumes and prices of small business loans depended on the pre-crisis local competitive environment. To address this question, I employ a unique data set on Finnish cooperative banks. I find that the monthly volumes of new business loans decreased and the average loan margins increased after the onset of the crisis. The decrease in volumes and the increase in margins were greater in local banking markets that were more competitive before the crisis. The results for the loan margins are more robust than those obtained for the volumes. Auxiliary analyses suggest that the greater effects in the more competitive markets are …
The devil is in the details : Capital stock estimation and aggregate productivity growth : an application to the Spanish economy
2020
The variables that contribute to explaining the major puzzles and paradoxes in macroeconomics and economic growth literature always appear related, directly or indirectly, to capital stock and depreciation. Depreciation defined in a narrow sense refers only to physical wear and tear, but in a broader sense, it also includes economic deterioration and obsolescence. In this study, we explore the link between these two depreciation concepts, the capital deepening and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We propose a double growth accounting framework that allows us to establish a relationship between variables in statistical terms and variables in economic terms. Then, with Spanish data for…
Credit demand and supply shocks in Italy during the Great Recession
2018
In this article, we use Structural VAR analysis to disentangle credit demand and supply shocks and their effect on real economic activity in Italy during the 2008 to 2014 crisis period. The three endogenous variables considered are the loan interest rate, the loans growth rate and the employment to population ratio. The data are observed at annual frequency for each of 103 Italian provinces. The empirical evidence suggests that the variance of the shocks varies across four Italian macro-regions: North, Centre, South and Islands, and hece heteroscedasticity is used to identify (ex ante) the structural shocks. Sign restrictions are used to interpret shocks ex post. The empirical findings sugg…
Multidimensional financial development, exporter behavior and export diversification
2020
Financial development shapes export sector performance because exporters need external finance and face credit constraints. Previous empirical research has relied largely on single-country studies. The Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD), which features firm-level exports from over 60 countries, reveals differences in the microstructure of the export sector across countries. In this paper, we first provide new evidence that these differences are related to cross-country variation in financial development and structure. Second, we combine the EDD and multidimensional data on financial development with a global database on export diversification. This study is the first to examine how macrolevel…