This study presents a new European investor sentiment index, EURsent, based on new individual sentiment proxies such as VSTOXX, gold, and the German bond yield spread, and studies the spillover and contagion between the United States and Europe. Furthermore, it analyses the simultaneous...

This paper proposes an Investor Sentiment Index for the European market and tests its predictability power over returns and volatility. The constructed Investor Sentiment Index for Europe draws upon three well-established and two recent individual sentiment proxies through a novel dynamic factor...

This paper aims to ascertain how company-specific factors influence the corporate ownership concentration of Portuguese firms. The paper employs several different regression techniques: Generalized Linear Model, Ordered Logit, 2 Stage Least Squares, Ordinary Least Squares, Truncated and...

The purpose of this work is to find the influence of a set of bank characteristics (market share, principal shareholders, profitability, size), and the gender of the company's board members, along with supervising abilities, on profitability, cost of debt and corporate leverage. The novelty of...

This work approaches the factors determining the qualified investor sentiment by different regions during the pandemic state of COVID-19 throughout the period without and with vaccination.The findings show that informed investors present different reactions to the various pandemic factors by...

The present study, through the use of bibliometric techniques, had as its main purpose to contribute to the structuring and analysis of the available scientific literature in the field of research on studies concerning the Models for the Assessment of the Level of Digital Maturity to Industry...

We explore optimal hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness for the German electricity market. Given the increasing attention that wavelets received in the financial market, we concentrate on the investigation of the relationship, covariance/coherence evolution and hedge ratio analysis, on a...

The need to decarbonize economic production processes is undeniable and has been considered by most countries worldwide. Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) technologies appear among the most promising routes to the decarbonization process. We propose an...

This research sought to explore self-reported satisfaction levels of mature students enrolled in the virtual financial accounting course of the first online-only bachelor's degree in Portugal. While doing so, it attempted to generate understanding of which factors may affect undergraduate mature...