The recent economic downturn of 2007-2008 has brought renewed focus on working capital policies. In this paper we examine the role of business cycles on the working capital-profitability relationship using a sample of Finnish listed companies over an 18 year period. We find the impact of...

We utilize wavelet coherency methodology with simulated confidence bounds to examine the short-term and long-term dependencies of the returns for S&P 500 and the S&P GSCI-super-® commodity index. Our results indicate no evidence of co-movement between S&P 500 total return and the S&P...

We use wavelet analysis to examine the short-term and long-term co-movement of international stock markets from a European perspective. First, we assess the co-movement of the Finnish stock market with stock markets in both developed and emerging economies. Second, the co-movement of five major...