A quantitative study of the robustness properties of the and the Huber M-estimator on finite samples is presented. The focus is on the linear model involving a fixed design matrix and additive errors restricted to the ...

We construct banking networks using bank-level balance sheet data from 2005 to 2010 from five emerging countries: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, and Taiwan. The network interaction is based on the leverage ratio ...

We consider a generalized leverage matrix useful for the identification of influential units and observations in linear mixed models and show how a decomposition of this matrix may be employed to identify high leverage ...

Financial ratios are coefficients that provide units that allow the analysis of the current or past state of a company according to its optimal levels. There are four basic types of financial ratios: Liquidity, Activity, ...

Using a sample of Spanish tourism small and medium-sized firms, we have tested the impact of family control, publicly-available information and tangibility on financial structure, providing a multi-theoretical model that ...

This paper aims to study the relationship between the debt level and the asset structure of Brazilian companies of the agribusiness sector, since it is considered a current and relevant discussion: to evaluate the mechanisms ...

El objetivo de esta tesis es la identificación, estudio y desarrollo de sociedades anónimas abiertas que se financian con un determinado porcentaje de leverage, con el propósito de medir la rentabilidad v/s deuda y poder ...