The current financial crisis seems to be more painful than those occurring in recent decades. This crisis caused a massive decline in the market confidence of both businesses and consumers. The crisis has affected a multitude of economic and financial activities such as financial markets that...

The impact of the crisis on Europe comes from both direct and indirect channels. The direct effects have been felt mostly through the financial sector. For example, stock market volatility has increased since the onset of the crisis and wealth losses have been observed in the major stock...

A variety of factors led or contributed to the current financial crisis, including loose monetary policy; excessive financial market liquidity, leverage and maturity mismatch; weak risk management and underwriting standards; and poor incentives and regulatory gaps in some important segments of...

This paper presents the theoretical background concerning capital budgeting techniques and cost of capital estimation and a literature review on cost of capital estimation practice applied by key European corporations as opposed to Asian and American firms. Previous studies showed that the most...

In this paper we investigate the profitability of the moving average strategy on six Asian capital markets considering the episodic character of linear and/or nonlinear dependencies, the period under study being 1997-2008. For each market, the most profitable strategy from 15000 alternatives is...

The scientific research is very careful supervised to national level, institutional and individual, products and services, a mean of preparing human resources highly qualified and as a source of prestige for countries, institutions and persons. Banks and generally the whole banking system must...

Banking practice has shown that risk is better controlled in a centralized system, as opposed to profit, whose size and scale is better controlled in a decentralized system, which includes its tracking on the centers of responsibility. In this context, the authors developed a model of coverage...

The global financial and economic crisis is felt in almost all the companies that operate on the European financial and insurance markets. The European insurance and re-insurance industry would register a significant decrease of the investments and a redu