The paper’s aim is to analyse the interdependency between the intellectual capital and the financial performance of biotechnological (biotech) companies in the pharmaceutical industry. The analysis was performed for 24 biotech companies in this branch considered during 2002-2014, based on...

Purpose - the study has a dual purpose. First, to assess the impact of the most important determinants of financial performance, which have been measured through four generations of indicators. In addition, the study provides the first quantification of interdependencies between different...

Over the last decade the airline industry has experienced extreme financial adversity. Whilst external low probability but high impact factors have been partially to blame some airlines have done worse than others. Predicting differences in airlines' financial performance is of interest for...

Financial indicators are the most used variables in measuring the business performance of companies, signaling about the financial position, comprehensive income, and other significant reporting aspects. In a competitive environment, the performance measurement model allows performing...

This paper examines the post-pandemic performance of micro, small, and medium-sized firms using Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs), a type of Artificial Neural Network that groups patterns based on their similarities. The goal is to identify the key characteristics that enable firms to face market...

We investigate the performance of funds that specialise in cryptocurrency markets. In doing so, we contribute to a growing literature that aims to understand the role of digital assets as an investment. Methodologically, we implement a novel panel bootstrap approach that samples jointly the...

In the recent years green bonds became a popular example of climate finance instruments. Although the volume of the green bond market has been increasing steadily in the last years, the actual impact of the “green label” on the market of bonds is still poorly understood. This article...

The Information Ratio IR is the conventional metric to gauge the ex post risk-adjusted performance of a market timing strategy. A deficiency of this metric is that it does not account for an average “long bias”, which can confound the timing ability of the evaluated strategy. In this paper,...

This study attempts to take a close look on corporate governance, board practices and performance of shipping firms in Bangladesh. The study has conducted a survey on 24- shipping firms operated in Bangladesh and collected perceptional data from top tier executives and factual data from firms...

This study examines the impact of capital structure, working capital, and governance quality on the financial performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan using a sample of more than 2000 firms from the Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) during the 24-year period of 1995-2018. Panel...