We analyze the effects of Standard and Poor's sovereign rating changes on stock market return at the level of the Central and Eastern Europe area. We remark a certain differentiation in terms of stock market indices reaction to sovereign rating dynamic. We assume that sovereign rating upgrade is...

The objectives of enterprises, their internal organization and the environment in which they operate evolve permanently; thus, the risks they are exposed to permanently change, influencing performance and even putting their existence in danger. Therefore, corporate governance may sometimes refer...

This paper focuses on highlighting out the way financial leverage has been approached, both from classic and modern perspective. Literature on financial leverage is reviewed in order to get a deeper insight on the way theories, concepts and mentalities have evolved. From the classic neutral...

This paper focuses on CEE countries volatility captured by exchange rate dynamic. The spillover phenomenon is analyzed from the perspective of the actual financial crisis where cross-border capital flows strenghthened the premises of the financial contagion. Volatility will be approached...

Optimality of fiscal policy is an issue widely debated in the literature from multiple perspectives. One way to address this problem is with the Laffer curve, causing the correlation between tax burden and tax revenue. This paper addresses the correlation with Laffer curve for income tax made...

The financial theory admits that levered firms record a value surplus compared to unlevered firms, at least because of the tax savings, related to interest. However, incurred debt, especially the long term debt, has a more consistent influence on performance, as stated by the Modigliani-Miller...

The purpose of the paper is to provide a prognosis of total public expenditure and types of expenditures, starting from the evolution in time of total public expenditure and spending on public services, defense, public order and safety, economic affairs, environmental protection, housing and...

Informational efficiency of capital markets has been the subject of numerous empirical studies. Intensive research of the field is justified by the important implications of the knowledge of the of informational efficiency level in the financial practice. Empirical studies that have tested the...

The literature is addressed by tax competition to attract capital and the measures taken in this regard. These measures aim, in most cases, reducing tax rates. Most authors, especially the classics, believes that this reduction creates an underprovision of goods and services and addresses the...

This chapter describes an optimum regulation model for the public expenditures system in Romania. The aim of this work is to design an optimal control system of public expenditures in Romania. It contains an offline identification of the total public expenditures system in Romania for a timespan...