Establishing the performance of the companies is one of the facts that influence the shareholders’ attitude. As a fact, a framing category could further affect the evolution of the company and could influence the audit opinion. As creditworthiness should be given to audit, a performance...

The systematic risk is considered as one of the most important factors that influence the investment in financial assets. Usually, it is evaluated in the framework of the Capital Asset Price Model. The systematic risk associated to firm equities is affected by some firm’s characteristics,...

This paper tests the relationship between above market returns and beta, size, leverage, book-to-market equity and earning-price ratios for the Bucharest Stock Exchange common stocks. Results from cross-sectional regressions document that both book-to-market equity and earning-price ratios are...

The recent evolution of the Romanian capital market is characterized by an increase in the market volatility as an expression of investors’ uncertainty about the global financial instability. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide an analytical framework for the analysis of the market...

The Internet is the perfect tool that can assure the market’s transparency for any user who wants to trade on the stock market. The investor can have access to the market news, financial calendar or the press releases of the issuers. A good online trading platform also provides real-time...

This work captures the behaviour of investors who are moving away from domestic capital market and radically change their investment options while the role of capital market in financing private companies is really decreasing. Consequently, a shift to bank credit or especially the self financing...

At the end of November 2010 Bucharest Stock Exchange celebrated 15 years of contemporary/ modern history since its re-opening for activity in November 20th 1995, after it has been closed in 1948 due to the nationalization process imposed by the communist regime. After a slow start, Bucharest...

Within this study, we have focused on factors related to the entity, such as the internal characteristics, consisting mainly in how the entity is managed, in order to identify the existence of certain associations between the characteristics of corporate governance and the existence of...

The research provides a selective overview of the existing information regarding the SMEs’ trading on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Due to the fact that the Romanian SMEs’ needed a different type of financing among the ones that already existed, the discussions regarding their trading...

This paper investigates the impact of the mandatory IFRS adoption on the value relevance of earnings on the Bucharest Stock Exchange, at a time when the EU did not have an official position regarding IFRS. Findings suggest that the implementation of IFRS has increased the contemporaneous...