The COVID-19 pandemic is impacting global markets through unprecedented circumstances. Fears surrounding such novel virus has led to dramatic market turbulence and massive tumbles in stock prices. In this paper, we explore the impact of COVID-19 on a comprehensive sample of 45 emerging...

In recent years the number of going private transactions has considerably increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to define the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising Polish companies. By applying a probit model we were able...

The Warsaw Stock Exchange is one of Europe's largest exchanges by the number of IPOs, although it retains features of a market in post-transition countries, including a relatively small size, shallowness and a weak institutional framework. In this study, we use a large dataset to explore firms'...

In this study, we investigate how governance quality determines the lending behavior of foreign-owned banks in emerging host markets. We do this by employing a dataset that includes foreign banks from 45 developed markets operating in 58 emerging markets. We incorporate direct measures of...