Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the audit-related causes of financial scandals and advice on how emerging technologies can provide solutions thereto. Specifically, this study seeks to look at the facilitators of financial statement fraud and explain specific fintech...

This paper studies the comparative attractiveness of public equity investments in the Polish (emerging) and in the U.S. (advanced) stock markets in the years 2000-2013. Through an original implementation strategy based on one- and multi-factor asset pricing models, we find that the potential for...

How mispriced is the equity in emerging economies? We join this academic discussion by studying stock returns in the contemporary stock market of Poland. We test for abnormal excess returns yield using classic and modern asset pricing models. We report the evidence of certain time-varying return...

This study investigates the contemporary role of banks' treasuries and shows how the trea-sury function is being transformed across the banking sector. Using a sample of internationalsurveys of banks representing both emerging and advanced markets (with 35% of banks rep-resenting the...

The Warsaw Stock Exchange is one of Europe's largest exchanges by the number of IPOs, although it retains features of a market in post-transition countries, including a relatively small size, shallowness and a weak institutional framework. In this study, we use a large dataset to explore firms'...