This paper investigates the determinants of capital structure for a sample of 13,070 small medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and 67,449 firm-year observations from Eastern European countries over the period 1994-2004. The use of a sample of SMEs in our analysis rather than large listed firms...

This research project aims to analyse the role of banks governance as an explanation to the recent financial crises. We claim to contribute to the current debate on the issue of governance mechanisms in explaining the performance of the banking sector, crucial to understanding of the 2007-2008...

This paper investigates the existence of financial contagion between the US and 10 European stock markets. Using intraday minute per minute data of a large set of 374 equities from three different industries over the period from January to June 2011 we investigate the impact of increased...

This paper investigates the existence of financial contagion between the US and ten European stock markets. Using intraday minute-per-minute data of a large set of 374 equities from three different industries, over the period from January to June 2011, we investigate the impact of increased...