This paper presents research results regarding the direction of changes in financing structure adopted by enterprises in the metal industry in Poland. This sector of industry is extremely important in Poland. The main reason for undertaking this research was a desire to gain insight into the...

Global financial regulators are currently reflecting on the nature of the insurance business. Specifically, they are trying to classify insurance into traditional' and non-traditional' activities, and to distinguish them from non-insurance' activities. Subsequently, they will seek to apply...

Building on recent research in social psychology, this paper analyzes the link between the precision of initial cash offers and M&A outcomes. About one-half of the offers are made at the precision of one or five dollars per share, and an additional one-third at the precision of half dollar or...

The 2007-8 global financial crisis has shown the failure of private finance to efficiently allocate capital to finance real capital development. The resilience and stability of Brazil's financial system has received attention, since it navigated relatively smoothly through the Great Recession...

Contextos inflacionarios pueden dar lugar a fuentes de ganancias o renta que no se encuentran directamente vinculadas a los aspectos operativos del foco de negocios de una firma sino más bien a los aspectos financieros, y que surgen de la administración del portafolio de activos y pasivos de...

Una firma inmoviliza recursos con el objetivo de obtener rentas explotando una oportunidad de negocios. En ello la información contable y financiera es de suma importancia para la toma de decisiones, ya que le sirve a los ejecutivos para gestionar la firma, a los accionistas para evaluar la...

El impuesto a los ingresos brutos actualmente no debería existir, al menos en su forma actual. Es un impuesto general al consumo, acumulativo y plurifásico que se superpone, en principio, en su base imponible con el impuesto al valor agregado (lo que significa cobrar dos impuestos sobre la...

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (CEEC-3) have undertaken substantial efforts to build a new financial system under the constraints of their legacies from central planning. In this study, first we look at the banking sector. Then we give a description of bond and stock markets. These...

On 29th - 30th March 2007, SUERF and the Central Bank of Cyprus jointly organized a Seminar: Corporate Governance in Financial Institutions. The papers in the present publication are based on a sample of the presentations at the Seminar. Together, the papers illuminate a number of key issues in...