We investigate the asymmetric nonlinear link between foreign direct investment, oil prices, and CO2 emissions for the Gulf Cooperation Council nations, using foreign direct investment and oil price data. As foreign direct investment is positively associated with carbon emissions in the long run...

FinTech is a new term combining finance and technology. The term did not exist until the end of 2014. Although there is agreement over what finance is, there is no agreed upon definition of technology. It changes with time. American sociologist Read Bain wrote in 1937 that technology includes...

Merger and acquisition (M&A) is a mechanism for promoting corporate governance suggesting that an improvement in overall corporate governance may have a negative effect on M&A activity. Since M&A foreign direct investment (FDI) is a cross-border variant of M&A, stronger corporate governance may...

We explore the valuation, tax and post-merger performance consequences of M&As with tax haven firms. Using an international sample of cross-border mergers over the period 1989 to 2010, we find that acquirers of tax haven firms decrease their effective tax rates significantly in two years...

The aim of the study is to estimate the level of competition and concentration in the Polish banking sector in 1997-2009 (prior the financial crisis and during the crisis). In this paper the Panzar and Rosse model (P-R) and the Lerner index (LI) have been used for the evaluation of competition....

The paper explains the issues related to the investment policy and capital acquisition variants in a capital group. Operation in this integrated economic structure may increase the capabilities of its participants of acquiring finance for the purpose of executing investment projects. Related...

Since the qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) entered into China's A-share market officially in 2003, they have made quite abundant profit. Do QFII profit through long-term investment, or seize high quota profit through speculation behavior? This article collects the data of the top...

The issues of financial constraints emphasis that firms use internal cash rather than debt or equity for investments. In a country where family controlled are prominent this could lead to distortion of capital and economy growth. Hence, over rely on internal financing lead firms to invest...

Today's financial regulation is founded on the assumption that more transparency, accountability, regulation, alignment of interests of directors with long-term objectives, less corruption makes the system safe. Thus, after the recent financial and economic crisis these themes are considered...