The goal of the present study is to examine the sustainability of banks' efficiency in the EU27 member states in the period from 2005 to 2008 after the last enlargement of the EU and to test for eventual association with economic performance. We were interested in the differences of the banks'...

This paper tackles the question of fiscal sustainability in current times of fiscal and economic crisis. We analyse how much space do fiscal policies have in EU member states for battling the crisis under the assumption that they want to remain fiscally sustainable. We use a derivative from...

Th is paper aims to analyze the residual income of the Slovenian and Croatian hotel industry for the period covering 2005–2008. Th e residual income not only looks at return on invested funds, but also implicitly compares it with the risk adjusted opportunity cost of such an investment. Th is...

The purpose of the paper is to assess the equity value of Slovenian publicly traded companies, before and after financial-economic crises, on the basis of discounted free cash flows to equity and to compare it with market equity values of companies. The fundamental equity value of the selected...

The purpose of the paper is to present the theoretical and empirical analysis of the causal relationship between company’s investment and profits. Following the previous research findings that are not unanimous, we examined the causal relation between profits and investment both at the...

The paper deals with the estimation of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for regulated industries in developing financial markets from the perspective of the current financial-economic crisis. In current financial market situation some evident changes have occurred: risk-free rates in...

In this paper we present the case of Slovenian public limited companies based on the discounted free cash flows to equity and comparing it with market value of equity capital of companies before and during the financial-economic crisis. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the equity value of...

The article sheds light on valuating Slovene publicly traded companies. The research aim is to solve the problems about company valuation in an emerging market, such as the Slovene market certainly is. The critical point is how to evaluate the variables to put in the valuation model. The chosen...

The aim of this research was to look briefly on the effects of the latest financial crisis in Slovenia. We were interested mostly in banks' results in terms of return on financial/trading assets, return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA) and possible significant changes that might be...

The article sheds light on the evaluation of cost of equity, which is important as it determines the minimum yield the investors require on the invested capital. We use the cost of equity as a discount rate to calculate the present value of the expected free cash flows which belongs to the...