Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part 1. Debating ESG Financial Topics -- Chapter 2. Sustainability literature orientation: Evidence from finance academic research -- Chapter 3. First assessment of EU Taxonomy regulation for Italian banks -- Chapter 4. Sustainable finance: A Quest for Value from ICO...

Financial performance measurement of companies in decision-making process is one of the most important subjects in financial and economic scope regarding development and importance of market role. Economic value added (EVA), refined economic value added (REVA), market value added (MVA) as...

The purpose of this article is to show on the example of Warsaw Stock Exchange, Poland (WSE) how in emerging capital markets dividends provide information about earnings quality as measured by their persistence. In the paper the regressions models of future earnings (in years t + 1 and t + 2)...

Prior analyst literature focuses on the impact of financial analysts on the firms they cover, and prior information-transfer literature concentrates on the externalities of information provided by management. This paper fills gaps in both streams of literature by examining the focal firm's...

The purpose of this study is to explore and explain the relationship between Intellectual capital and Market value added in 50 Malaysian firms during the years 2000 and 2012. intellectual capital are considered as an independent variable which divided to human, relational and structural capital,...

Since a regulatory change in 1982, stock buybacks- the action of companies purchasing their own stock- have become an increasingly popular use of cash amongst publicly traded companies, eclipsing dividend payments and rivaling capital expenditure. The merits of conducting large-scale buyback...

There is a standard trade-off in contracts between the provision of incentives and insurance. We hypothesize that this trade-off influences the precision with which firm performance is measured. We find that firm outcomes are measured less precisely when chance plays a large role in these...