The reliance of the investment funds market to the capital market development, to the liquidity of the traded shares, to the evolution of the funded companies and by the investors changing behavior against a changing environment has generated unforeseen fluctuations in the global economy and in...

In an attempt to identify the main determinants of attraction or inhibitive factors for investments, the current paper evaluates the Romanian mutual fund market development. Using a regression analysis on quarterly data during 2004Q3 – 2012Q2, the study explores the impact of current financial...

We investigate the key macroeconomic and institutional determinants of fundraising and investment activities and compare them across Europe, covering 13 Central and Eastern European (CEE) and 16 Western European (WE) countries. Five macroeconomic variables and nineteen institutional variables...

We investigate the key macroeconomic and institutional determinants of fundraising and investment activities and compare them across Europe, covering 13 Central and Eastern European (CEE) and 16 Western European (WE) countries. Five macroeconomic variables and nineteen institutional variables...

Purpose – This paper presents the framework that is developed for analysis of intellectual capital transformation into companies' value, including an identification of the key factors of this process. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs intellectual capital on the intersection of...

We extend our previous works of deriving linguistic summaries of time series using a fuzzy logic approach. To obtain a more advanced evaluation of summaries, we perform a multi-criteria analysis of summaries by assuming as a unifying quality criterion Yager's measure of informativeness of the...