This article considers the regulation “on the books” of executive pay across the EU and the evidence “in action” on corporate practice concerning executive pay (based on disclosures by FTSE Eurofirst 300 companies) in relation to the best practice recommendations set out in two key...

Since 2009, European countries such as Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain (the PIGS) have suffered sovereign debt crisis. In this paper, we try to find the reason of debt crisis by statistics analysis and case study. We use panel data for 13 European countries in 2001-2013 and find that when a...

This paper studies the profitability of a selection of prominent momentum-based strategies in the European Monetary Union. In contrast to past examples documenting the lack of profitability of unconditional price momentum in the most recent decade, the current research finds that unconditional...