The paper investigates the relation between the Share Price and three performance indicators: Net Operating Profit expressed by EBIT, Cash Flow From Operation and Economic Value Added. The sample includes 42 listed industrial companies chosen in four European financial markets, such as United...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the characteristics and motives of Italian voluntary Public to Private transactions (PTPs) between 2001 and 2011 observing a final sample of more than 53 industrial companies, compared with a control sample of 106 companies still listed in the period. Main...

The theoretical framework, consisting of the traditional literature on performance, is contextualized according to the specific rationale that characterizes the microfinance operation. Performance evaluation, moreover, is not a new subject matter in microfinance. On the international level,...