This volume focuses on the latest findings concerning financial environment research and the effects on business. Major topics addressed range from finance-driven globalization, contagion risk transmission, financial sustainability, and bank efficiency, to oil price shocks and spot prices...

ACCOUNTING/AUDIT -- Insights from Lobbying Research on the Accounting Standard-Setting Process through Comment Letter Submissions -- The Bulgarian Life Insurance Sector – Review and Analysis of Investment -- Measures to Assess the Payment Behavior of The Portuguese Subnational Governments --...

Part I Accounting/Audit -- The Impact of Free Cash Flow on Firm’s Performance: Evidence from Malaysia -- The Analysis of the Appliance of Fair Value Concept in Croatian Companies from Real Sector -- The Link Between Accounting Measures of Biological Assets and Financial Standing of the...

Preface -- 1 An Introduction to the Econometrics of Program Evaluation -- 2 Methods Based on Selection on Observables -- 3 Methods Based on Selection on Unobservables -- 4 Local Average Treatment Effect and Regression-Discontinuity-Design.

Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Econometrics of Program Evaluation -- Chapter 2. Methods Based on Selection on Observables -- Chapter 3. Methods Based on Selection on Unobservables -- Chapter 4. Local Average Treatment Effect and Regression-Discontinuity-Design -- Chapter 5....