This paper examines factors that influence prices of most common five cryptocurrencies such Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash, Litecoin, and Monero over 2010-2018 using weekly data. The study employs ARDL technique and documents several findings. First, cryptomarket-related factors such as market beta,...

This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of economic freedom on foreign direct investments inflows in both global and regional panel analyses involving 156 countries through the period of 1995-2016. Unlike to prior literature, it includes often neglected nations such as Fragile and...

This paper examines a value creation of brand intangible on stock prices under existing (Carhart's Four-Factor Model) and a new asset pricing methodologies. The study produces several outcomes. First, a new model, which accounts the risks that are attributable to intangible assets, adds a...

This paper studies impact of employee happiness on stock prices. Using Carhart's (1997) four-factor analysis, we document an existence of 0.3160% monthly (3.86% annualized) abnormal returns in equal-weighted portfolio of the “Best 100 Companies to Work For” during 2001-2015 periods....

This paper has two contributions to the International Financial Reporting Stands (IFRS) adoption literature. First is the scrutinizing impact of IFRS adoption on value relevance in the UK with TEST-A analysis under the H01 hypothesis. The second contribution is capturing the impact of IFRS...

This paper examines influences of brand dynamics on insurance premium productions in Turkey using a dynamic GMM panel estimation technique sampling 31 insurance firms over 2005-2015. The results reveals that brands trust appears as a chief driving force behind premium production where its unit...

This paper investigates both short and long-run interaction between BIST-100 index and CDS prices over January 2008 to May 2015 using ARDL technique. The paper documents several findings. First, ARDL analysis shows that 1 TL increase in CDS shrinks BIST-100 index by 22.5 TL in short-run and 85.5...

This paper investigates impact of e-economic activities on female employment rates in Turkey over 1994–2016. The analysis unveils three major findings. First, 80.74% of variations in female employment are accounted by e-commerce and control variables. Second, Autoregressive Distributed Lag...

In recent years, the capital structure and profitability was analyzed by too many researchers in academic level. However, most of them excluded banking industry due to different market structure and regulatory frameworks. The differential point of banking industry with other financial industries...