This paper investigates how soccer sponsorship influences the financial performance of sponsors. We use an instrumental variable regression framework combined with a fixed effects model to avoid the possible endogeneity raised by omitted variables and reverse causality. The number of tweets...

It is believed that investments in intellectual capital enable a company to create a competitive advantage that results in the ability to earn economic profits and increase company value. However, this influence is reciprocal: Companies that generate more money can invest more funds in...

Our work is focused on Russian mutual funds managers' skills versus luck testing. Using the bootstrap procedure of Kosowski et al. (2007) we test Jensen's alpha signicance for each fund. We found that only 5% of equity mutual funds do have skills. These results for the emerging Russian market...