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Abstract

The special issue of the Journal of Economics, Finance and Adminis trative Science is part of the activities to celebrate the fifty anniver sary of ESAN Graduate School of Business. ESAN was inaugurated in 1963 thanks to an agreement between the Peruvian government and the government of the United States of America. The implementation of the agreement was entrusted to the Stanford Graduate School of Business of Stanford University in California. The Journal of Econo mics, Finance and Administrative Science was born as Cuadernos de Difusión in 1992. It was reengineered in 2009 when the current appellation JEFAS was adopted.

The special issue offers the best research works presented in the Economics and Financial Management track of CLADEA Conference 2012 that was held in Lima, Peru, from October 22nd to October 24th, 2012. We have selected for publications individual works as well as collaborative works, papers in English and Spanish. The financial markets in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru are studied from different perspectives, with an emphasis on investments.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2077-1886(13)70023-4