This work delineates the factors determining investor sentiment in specific regions during the pandemic and the influence of attitudes towards vaccination. The findings show that the reactions of knowledgeable investors in different regions to the economic effects of the pandemic were not...

This paper investigates how bank characteristics (market share, principal shareholders, profitability, and size), and the gender of the company's board members, along with their supervisory abilities, influence the firm's performance, cost of debt, and leverage. We extracted relevant data from a...

In this study, we provide a thorough analysis, conducted on a company-by-company basis, of the impact of bank concentration and the bank-relative power of banks on firm profitability, financing costs, and capital structure in a small economy like Portugal. Using a sample of 434,990 Portuguese...