The present study, through the use of bibliometric techniques, had as its main purpose to contribute to the structuring and analysis of the available scientific literature in the field of research on studies concerning the Models for the Assessment of the Level of Digital Maturity to Industry...

The purpose of this work is to find the influence of a set of bank characteristics (market share, principal shareholders, profitability, size), and the gender of the company's board members, along with supervising abilities, on profitability, cost of debt and corporate leverage. The novelty of...

This paper aims to ascertain how company-specific factors influence the corporate ownership concentration of Portuguese firms. The paper employs several different regression techniques: Generalized Linear Model, Ordered Logit, 2 Stage Least Squares, Ordinary Least Squares, Truncated and...

This work approaches the factors determining the qualified investor sentiment by different regions during the pandemic state of COVID-19 throughout the period without and with vaccination.The findings show that informed investors present different reactions to the various pandemic factors by...

This paper proposes an Investor Sentiment Index for the European market and tests its predictability power over returns and volatility. The constructed Investor Sentiment Index for Europe draws upon three well-established and two recent individual sentiment proxies through a novel dynamic factor...

This study presents a new European investor sentiment index, EURsent, based on new individual sentiment proxies such as VSTOXX, gold, and the German bond yield spread, and studies the spillover and contagion between the United States and Europe. Furthermore, it analyses the simultaneous...

Although some studies recently address the association between COVID-19 sentiment and returns, volatility, or stock trading volume, no one conducts an analysis to measure the impact of investor rationality or irrationality on the influence on countries and sectors' returns.This work creates a...