It has been frequently quoted in the literature that one decisive cause of the productive performance of an economy might be infrastructure investment. This paper provides a dual profit theoretical framework of measuring the effects of infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in...

The present study, employing a survivorship-bias free data-set, assesses the performance of Greek domestic equity funds during the period June 2001-December 2009 controlling for the thin trading risk that is inherent in the Greek stock market. Augmenting Carhart's multi benchmark model (1997)...

An issue that has not been dealt in the literature refers to the relationship between bank loan efficiency and weather conditions. This paper provides empirical evidence, for the first time, that sheds new light into the dynamic interactions between weather and bank loan efficiency, using a...

This Chapter presents an application of quantile regression analysis in estimating the cost efficiency of 1,520 commercial banks operating in 73 countries during 2000-2006. This approach allows us to estimate banks' cost function for various quantiles of the conditional distribution and to...

This paper examines the underlying dynamics of selected euro-area sovereign bonds by employing a factor-augmenting vector autoregressive (FAVAR) model for the first time in the literature. This methodology allows for identifying the underlying transmission mechanisms of several factors; in...

This paper explores the nexus between earnings management and religiosity. It complements prior research on the impact of religious social norms of the firm's environment on earnings management practices. Using a sample of 11,105 U.S. firm-year observations between 2004 and 2013, we find that...

This paper examines the underlying dynamics of the Euro-area sovereign bonds most in need of fiscal consolidation by employing a Bayesian time varying parameter factor augmenting VAR (TVP-FAVAR thereafter) model. This methodology is applied for the first time and allows multivariate stochastic...

This paper examines whether euro area unconventional monetary policies have affected the loss-absorbing buffers (that is the resilience) of the banking industry. We employ various measures to capture the effect of the broad array of programmes used by the ECB to implement balance sheet policies,...