Essays on Financial Analytics : Applications and Methods

Foreign exchange risk hedging policy: Evidence from France -- Use of Financial Instruments among the Chilean households -- IFRS 9 -Financial Assets: Debt Instrument Classification and Management under the new Accounting Standard. A case study of Greek Government Bonds, in Banks’ Investment Portfolios.-Investor Attention and Bitcoin Trading Behaviors -- An answer to Roll’s critique (1977) forty five years later -- Detecting Equity Style Information within Institutional Media -- An Advanced Approach to Algorithmic Portfolio Management -- Financial analytics and decision-making strategies: future prospects from Bibliometrix based on R package -- MONETARY UTILITY FUNCTIONS AND RISK FUNCTIONALS -- Cryptocurrency Portfolios Using Heuristics -- Geographic Dispersion and IPO Underpricing -- The Rise of Fintech & Healthcare SPACs.-KOOPMAN OPERATORS AND EXTENDED DYNAMIC MODE DECOMPOSITION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH MODELS IN TERMS OF FRACTIONAL DERIVATIVES -- Efficiency, taxation & solvency issues for SMEs: The case of Greece, Italy and Spain.