test, this article investigates (i) the performance of investments in diamonds of different quality grades, (ii) time …

This research identifies potential links between performance and the level of financial communication on the web. This … measure performance for these two groups. The Probit model shows a negative relation between financial performance and the …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while … ownership is strongly correlated with performance in developing countries, that ownership is not correlated with performance in …

Based on German government bond yields, this paper analyses the performance of laddered strategies during a period of … increase with the length of maturity. Performance measures, such as return on risk-adjusted capital and the Sharpe ratio, show … level, the dominance is reduced. The results imply that portfolio managers should consider performance characteristics in …

Our study explores the impact financial crisis has on performance of microfinance institutions in Zimbabwe employing … impact of financial crisis on performance of Microfinance Institutions. We also found a positive effect of gross domestic … product, money supply, the first lag of inflation and exchange rates on microfinance institutions performance while the second …