Purpose This paper aims to analyze the dynamics of the security lending process and lending markets to identify the market-wide variables reflecting the characteristics of the stock borrowed and to measure the credit risk arising from lending contracts. Design/methodology/approach Using the data...

Purpose: This paper aims to survey the credit scoring literature in the past 41 years (1976-2017) and presents a research agenda that addresses the challenges and opportunities Big Data bring to credit scoring. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis methodology is used to analyze 258...

This paper examines the long-term financial integration of second-round acceding and candidate countries’ with the European Union and the US stock markets during the Accession Process. The lowpair wise correlations between these markets imply portfolio diversification opportunities, yet...

The increased adoption and infiltration of the Internet has recently redefined the playground for retail banks. Retail banks are now offering their services primarily through their Internet banking branches. The repercussions of this change to “brick and mortar” banks have been studied in...

This paper investigates the long-term financial integration and bivariate extreme dependence between Bovespa and the Istanbul Stock Exchange. While a static cointegration test presents no evidence of long-term cointegration, the introduction of a structural break into the model shows that...

This paper evaluates the role of informal economy as a driver of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) globally. While advocates of ICOs value its role in entrepreneurial finance, others discuss its role in money-laundering. In fact, informal economy literature shows that money laundering is an integral...

We study foreign investment and manufacturing productivity using a large sample of listed and unlisted firms from 34 European countries. Controlling for the business environment, institutional quality, investor protection, corruption, and disclosure quality of both host and foreign investor...

This paper investigates the long-term financial integration and bivariate extreme dependency between Bovespa and Istanbul Stock Exchanges. While static cointegration test present no evidence of long term cointegration, introduction of a structural break to the model shows that Bovespa and ISE...