This article examines the major differences in the accounting and stock market characteristics of banking organizations that use derivatives relative to those that do not.

Directors' Dealings have been extensively analysed especially for U.S. and U.K. stock markets. This event study is meant to bridge the gap for Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. The question to be investigated is whether board members and other company insiders earn abnormal returns with market...

The genetic algorithm is numbered among less formal methods which allows using it in different areas including forecasting. However, there is a question about efficiency of that instrument. We decided to check inner procedures of the algorithm affecting gaining speed and quality of solutions. We...

The new stock market called New Connect began on Warsaw Stock Exchange on 30 August 2007. It is a kind of Polish alternative stock investment market. It was designed first of all for not very large companies, young, innovative, being in preliminary phase of their economic development, but which...

First, the institutions of direct democracy, referendum and initiative, are described. One of the main arguments against direct political rights is that citizens are often, or even generally, not enough informed or even incompetent to decide on important political issues. Therefore, the problem...