Purpose – We know that estimates of terminal value of long-term investment horizons are biased. Unbiased estimates exist only for investment horizon of one time-period. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a method based on the arithmetic mean in order to obtain unbiased estimates for the...

We employ a semi-parametric empirical model and reveal evidence that the U.S. bank profitability is affected non-parametrically by the business cycle, short-term interest rates, inflation expectations, credit risk, and loan portfolio structure. If a semi-parametric perspective was not adopted...

Purpose - Prior evidence suggests the existence of asymmetric timeliness in the reporting of good and bad news of firms that trade in the Athens Stock Exchange. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether these results are consistent with inferences related to persistence property of...

Purpose -The aim of this study is to isolate the firm characteristics that affect capital structure Design/methodology/approach -The investigation has been performed using panel data procedure for a sample of 129 Greek companies listed on the Athens Stock Exchange during 1997-2001. The number of...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to add to the existing literature by examining a number of hypotheses relating to the capital structure decision in relation to the firms’ size, namely by distinguishing among micro, small and medium firms. Design/methodology/approach - The paper examines...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that different methodologies may lead to different implications about the validity of the pecking order theory. Design/methodology/approach – Using data from Greek firms as a starting-point, the paper first investigates whether they follow the...

This paper aims to analyse the relation between the returns of companies that participate in mergers as well as the takeover ratios of output-value (Tobin's qs) of each absorbing (henceforth Bidder) and each absorbed (henceforth Target) company for the period 2000–2006. The returns of...