In this paper we empirically analyse the factors which determined consumer credit in Greece in the period before and after the financial liberalisation, while accounting for significant changes in structure due to the lifting of credit restrictions and the subsequent impressive boom of consumer...

Research on Singapore's economic history has been complicated by the absence of economic data on pre-independence Singapore. This book aims to fill the gap by presenting a time-series of historical GDP estimates for the periods 1900–39 and 1950–60. The new data presented in the...

Efficiency in stock markets is essential for economic stability and growth. This study investigates the efficiency and herding behavior of the stock markets from the top economies of the world (known as G20 countries). We classify stock market indices using MSCI classification for the developed...

Company value results from how well a company has managed its resources to achieve business benefits. However, there are always risks associated with conducting business, and effective risk management (ERM) can help reduce those risks so that they stay in the way of the entity's performance...

Die Dissertation besteht aus vier eigenständigen empirischen Aufsätzen. Das erste Kapitel untersucht auf der Grundlage von Gewerbesteuererhöhungen auf Gemeindeebene in Deutschland, inwieweit Unternehmen ihre Investitionspläne an höhere Steuersätze anpassen. Die weiteren Kapitel befassen...

El artículo de Armando Di Filippo comienza haciendo un análisis de lo que es elpensamiento único para luego adentrarse en el estudio del institucionalismo y elneoinstitucionalismo. Pero el planteamiento central está enfocado a examinar porun lado el estructuralismo latinoamericano y la...

Este artículo examina el impacto de la globalización financiera sobre el desarrollo financiero en América Latina. Se elabora una prueba empírica con nuevos indicadores de globalización y desarrollo financieros, más cercanos al marco teórico y conceptual, y se emplea un modelo de datos de...

The profound structural changes occurred in the global economy and also in the national one – globalization, dematerialization, crisis, etc. – impel us to watch critically not only the managerial practices on different levels of economic organization, but also the theoretical scaffold that...

We analyze gender bias in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet women are particularly constrained. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs,...

We investigate the empirical relation between competition and corporate governance and the effect of country characteristics on this relation. We find that competition is associated with strong corporate governance, but only in less developed countries. We next examine the impact of corporate...