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Rodolfo Martell
Researcher at Purdue University
Publications - 13
Citations - 490
Rodolfo Martell is an academic researcher from Purdue University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stock market & Initial public offering. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 13 publications receiving 463 citations.
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Terrorism and the Stock Market
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the stock price impact of terrorist attacks and found that human capital losses such as kidnappings of company executives are associated with larger negative stock price reactions than physical losses, such as bombings of facilities or buildings.
Terrorism and the Stock Market
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the stock price impact of terrorist attacks and found that human capital losses such as kidnappings of company executives are associated with larger negative stock price reactions than physical losses, such as bombings of facilities or buildings.
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On Capital Structure and the Liquidity of a Firm's Stock
Laura Frieder,Rodolfo Martell +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the notion that these variables are jointly determined and find that as leverage increases, spreads decrease, consistent with the idea that debt forces managers to make better investment decisions, and they also shed light on the determinants of leverage and bid-ask spreads.
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Equity-Market Liberalizations as Country IPO's
Rodolfo Martell,René M. Stulz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the performance of stock markets following the liberalization of the stock market in countries with poor investor protection, agency costs, and information asymmetries, and found that stock markets of liberalizing countries experience extremely strong performance immediately after the liberalisation, but then go through a period of poor performance.
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Understanding Common Factors in Domestic and International Bond Spreads
TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the determinants of credit spread changes of individual U.S. dollar denominated bonds using fundamentals specified by structural models and find that domestic spreads are related to the lagged first component of sovereign spreads.