This paper isolate the corporate reputational risk incurred by Oil and Gas companies, listed in the NYSE, derived from recent medium sized and large oil spill disasters occurred from 2005 to 2011 in the US. For this purpose, we conduct a standard short-horizon daily event study analysis to...

Using This paper analyzes the effects on the Spanish banking system of the EU proposal for a new Directive on deposit insurance systems based on risk-sensitive premiums. To do this, we examine the risk profile of Spanish banks during the 2007-2011 period according to several indicators...

In macroeconomics and finance, it is extremely useful to have knowledge of the Term Structure of Interest Rates (TSIR) and to be able to interpret the related data. However, independently of its latest particular application, the TSIR is not observable directly in the market and a previous...

This work questions if religious organizations with common shared beliefs and sacred objectives, but which members had a different level of awareness to accounting, should show a different behaviour concerning: a) the status of accounting in their internal organisations; and b) the permeability...

Using a sample of 2,186 credit default swap (CDS) spreads quoted in the European market during the period 2002-2009, this paper empirically analyzes which model – accounting- or market-based – better explains corporate credit risk. We find that there is little difference in the explanatory...

The aim of this paper is to study the differential effects of the public programs that provide financial aid to small and medium enterprises during times of crisis in Spain. We use different methods to control for potential selection bias. Our results show that the effects of these programs are...

The manipulation of performance measures is a central theme in management accounting research. Individuals have private information that can be used for their own benefit; and thus they can falsify their performance reporting. Psychology literature asserts that the attitude of individuals to...

The aim of this study is to analyze the determinants of delisting decisions on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London (United Kingdom) for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs), examining the differences between family and non-family firms in addition to the impact of the financial crisis....

People are the most important asset for companies, but they are also a source of risk. People risk involves both intentional and unintentional people’s behavior that could provoke losses for firms. The main goal of this paper is twofold: to identify four different risk categories (Internal...

En los últimos años se ha producido un incremento en el número de empresas que publican memorias de sostenibilidad con el objetivo teórico de suministrar información sobre su contribución al Desarrollo Sostenible. Paralelamente, se ha producido un incremento en las críticas a este tipo de...