The intense concentration process taking place in the financial systems of the major countries has attracted substantial attention from stakeholders and academics.The impact of Mamp;A on value creation and efficiency / effectiveness improvements of banks involved appears, on the whole,...

The idea that the governance mechanisms affect firms' performance is well acknowledged in management literature. The settings prevailing in governance studies explain board's roles at the light of the agency theory framework but complementary perspective is focused on the acquisition of critical...

Stock market prices reflect information on firms' business environments, operations and, in general, firms' fundamentals. Recently, various studies analyze the link between news coverage and stock prices showing that mass media has a significant impact on financial markets. This paper analyze...

This study aims to investigate the unsettled issue of the relationship between CEO duality and a firm’s value through the perspective of investors’ reaction to news which mention apical directors with a single role and Board Chair CEOs. With a unique and hand-collected database of 60,805...

In the last years of the twentieth century central banks started strengthening their communication strategy, making it easier to analyze the evolution of central banks' functions and role over time and space. In this chapter we employ a topic modeling approach to investigate the differences in...

Central banks' commitment to public interest goes beyond monetary policy. A wide range of areas are under the control of central banks (price and financial stability, services for the economy, e.g., economic analysis, payments, financial education, customer protection); central banks also have...