M&A announcements can result in substantial positive or negative abnormal acquiring-firm stock returns and sizeable associated dollar value gains or losses. Unfortunately for decision makers tasked with evaluating potential deals, the existing M&A literature focuses on the in-sample analysis of...

Few can argue with the notion that corporations should at least consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) to better understand the impact of their operations on society. However, recent empirical tests suggest CSR has an ambiguous impact on firm performance. To shed new light on this...

A sizeable amount of empirical research attributes stock price crashes to agency reasons, predominantly on managerial bad news hoarding behaviour manifested through the financial reporting opacity channel. Admittedly, another prominent agency-based explanation, namely the overinvestment channel,...

Few can argue with the notion that corporations should at least consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) to better understand the impact of their operations on society. However, recent empirical tests suggest CSR has an ambiguous impact on firm performance. To shed new light on this...

Forecasting at the Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) level in order to support operations management has proved a very difficult task. The levels of accuracy achieved have major consequences for companies at all levels in the supply chain; errors at each stage are amplified resulting in poor service and...

In this study building on earlier work on the properties and performance of the univariate Theta method for a unit root data‐generating process we: (a) derive new theoretical formulations for the application of the method on multivariate time series; (b) investigate the conditions for which...

In this study building on earlier work on the properties and performance of the univariate Theta method for a unit root data generating process we: (a) derive new theoretical formulations for the application of the method on multivariate time series, (b) investigate the conditions for which the...

Credit Unions in the United Kingdom had their custody transferred in 2002 from the Registry of Friendly Societies under the Financial Services Authority. This paper examines the reasons why such a move may eventually lead to the mutation of the British Credit Union movement from small...

Nowadays financial markets are facing continuous values’ fluctuations, resulting in higher risks that eventually influence investors’ decisions. In this article a methodology is proposed in order to efficiently build portfolios of futures. The new methodology is tested on data from the...

The Theta model created a lot of interest in academic circles due to its surprisingly good performance in the M3 forecasting competition. However, this interest was not followed up by other studies, with the exception of Hyndman and Billah in 2003. In addition, the Theta model performance has...