The evolution of stock prices is influenced by the expectations of investors regarding the earning prospects associated to each listed company. One of the key elements of investment decision is the positive relationship between risk and return. Risky securities are preferred to less risky ones...

Building a coherent country branding program at international level requires a strong coordination between the government, the business sector, the decision makers from educational and cultural sector, the civil society and, the mass media representatives in any country. The paper presents the...

The present paper will attempt to explore the argumentation frequently employed in the public discourse – but less in economic theory – by different categories of stakeholders that the exhaustion of world oil reserves will have a dramatic impact on global economic growth and development....

Stock prices move as corporate earnings prospects change, but they also move as investors change their aversion to risk. One of the central tenets of finance is that investors expect higher return for taking risk. They exchange some of their riskless securities for risky assets because they...

Our paper emphasizes the strategic importance of CSR both for companies and society as well. A comprehensive literature review reflects the challenges mainly associated with two different approaches: CSR as a profitable business practice that consolidates a good corporate image, or CSR as an...

Traditionally, the reaction of many mainstream economists to the effort to integrate theology and economics demonstrated the difficulty of doing so in a way that could be broadly recognized as legitimate. This state of things is simply an indication of a broad consensus within the field of...

By its conceptual construction, Europe is the best environment for the proliferation of knowledge and technology based communities and individuals. Creating the appropriate economic and institutional framework that provides incentives for the efficient use of local and global knowledge, that...

“Everything is interconnected”, biological and social existence, economy and religion have common links (Barabasi, 2003). Even though we may consider it to be a truism, only since three decades the formal and informal links between different entities became a research subject. In the 1980s...

In this paper we present an alternative bio-epistemological-based approach to economic ethics issues, which suggests that economists need not only an understanding of the ecosystem in terms of irreversibility, but even more an understanding of the way the process in ecosystem make actual the...