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Dividends, investment and pension contributions (2024)
Journal Article

We study the determinants of pension contributions for UK listed companies to better understand how the contributions decision is placed within the wider operational and strategic framework of the company. We model the potential displacement effect o... Read More about Dividends, investment and pension contributions.

A conditional higher-moment CAPM (2023)
Journal Article

This paper investigates whether dynamic and moment extensions to the traditional CAPM can improve its empirical performance and offer some alternative explanation to the cross-section of average returns on portfolios of stocks double sorted on book-t... Read More about A conditional higher-moment CAPM.

Drivers of mandatory disclosure in GCC region firms (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate firm-level variations in the extent of mandatory disclosures and address the drivers of mandatory disclosure using data from the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) region. Design/methodology/approach: The extent o... Read More about Drivers of mandatory disclosure in GCC region firms.

Earnings management techniques in the context of Italian unlisted firms (2021)
Journal Article

Our research expands the earnings management (EM) literature for Italian unlisted firms by investigating the drivers of both accrual-based (AEM) and real activity-based (REM) earnings management. According to prior literature, the reliability of fina... Read More about Earnings management techniques in the context of Italian unlisted firms.

The impact of financial difficulties on earnings management strategies: The case of Italian non-listed firms (2020)
Journal Article

This study investigates the impact of the degree of financial distress on the earnings management activities of Italian non-listed firms. The extant literature provides mixed evidence on this relationship for listed firms. We find a positive (negativ... Read More about The impact of financial difficulties on earnings management strategies: The case of Italian non-listed firms.

MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies (2019)
Journal Article

The purpose of this paper is to compare two of the most commonly employed methods employed to measure the Intellectual Capital (IC) value: Market to Book (MtB) ratio and the VAIC, in order to determine the most suitable in the context of Italian list... Read More about MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies.

Ownership influence and CSR disclosure in China (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This paper aims to examine the relationship between ownership type and the likelihood of publication of a corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on stakeholder s... Read More about Ownership influence and CSR disclosure in China.

A conditional regime switching CAPM (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. The standard Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is simple, intuitive, and grounded in sound economic theory. Yet, almost half a century's worth of empirical testing has so far failed to demonstrate its relevance. One major reason... Read More about A conditional regime switching CAPM.

Measuring the intellectual capital of Italian listed companies (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017, © Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), measured in terms of the market to book (MTB) ratio, and potential key determinants of IC value such as int... Read More about Measuring the intellectual capital of Italian listed companies.

MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Purpose – Grounded in the extant theoretical and empirical literature, the purpose of this paper is to compare two of the most employed methods measuring IC value in order to find the most suitable in the context of Italian listed firms. Moreover, th... Read More about MtB versus VAIC in measuring intellectual capital: Empirical evidence from Italian listed companies.

The relationship between equity and bond returns: An empirical investigation (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The correlation between equity and corporate debt is ambiguous. News affecting the value of a firm's assets induces a positive correlation, whereas an increase in the volatility of a firm's assets induces a negative correlation.... Read More about The relationship between equity and bond returns: An empirical investigation.

The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Ever since the collapse of the Bretton-Woods system, gold has retained its function as an important monetary commodity (Baur and Lucey, 2010), and continues to provide important inflation forecasting information to monetary polic... Read More about The impact of monetary policy on gold price dynamics.

The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses (2017)
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In September 2007, the collapse of the United States (US) sub-prime mortgage market resulted in the global meltdown of the financial markets. This in turn led to the collapse of many international financial institutions including Northern Rock, Brad... Read More about The Financial Crisis and White Collar Crime - Legislative and Policy Responses.

A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions (2016)
Journal Article

This paper introduces a new regional “financial maturity index” (FMI) based on previous studies of financial development theory. We explore a unified measure of regional financial development by constructing a new composite financial maturity model.... Read More about A new composite financial maturity index and its application to China’s province-level regions.

Some extensions of the CAPM for individual assets (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. There is ample evidence that stock returns exhibit non-normal distributions with high skewness and excess kurtosis. Experimental evidence has shown that investors like positive skewness, dislike extreme losses and show high level... Read More about Some extensions of the CAPM for individual assets.

Bank regulation and stock market stability across countries (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether bank capital strength and external auditing requirements influenced international stock market stability during the 2007/2008 global financial cr... Read More about Bank regulation and stock market stability across countries.

Auditor choice in Italian non-listed firms (2016)
Journal Article

© Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – This paper aims to investigate auditor choice in those Italian non-listed firms adopting the “traditional” model of corporate governance. In Italy, non-listed firms can choose between two types of auditor... Read More about Auditor choice in Italian non-listed firms.

Intellectual capital and its determinants in Italian listed companies (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

PURPOSE: The purpose of the paper is to match the intellectual capital (IC) measurement methods and the reporting practices of a group of Italian listed firms, in order to examine potential convergence in practice. The study applies a holistic market... Read More about Intellectual capital and its determinants in Italian listed companies.

Accounting data and the credit spread: An empirical investigation (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Measures of credit risk based on Merton (1974) rely upon information available in the market prices of securities. Under the Efficient Market Hypothesis market prices should reflect all available information and, hence, make redu... Read More about Accounting data and the credit spread: An empirical investigation.

Property rights institutions and bank performance across countries (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015, © Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the quality of property rights institutions (PRIs) and bank financial performance in an empirical study of 136 countries over t... Read More about Property rights institutions and bank performance across countries.