Purpose: This paper aims to expand the emerging literature on COVID-19 and the financial markets by searching for a relationship between the uncertainty of the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic experienced through social media and the extreme volatility of the Italian stock market....

The article presents a study which explored the ability of network accounting tools in supporting local public groups' control systems, considering the local governments in Italy. Analysis of the relationship between local public group governance and the external and internal information needs...