Purpose - The research explores the extent to which the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in the Greek banking sector has affected its financial and narrative reporting between the periods prior (2002-2004) and after (2005-2007) the implementation of the IFRS....

The economic crisis in recent years has brought significant challenges in almost all business and shown that exogenous factors act as catalysts in markets. As a consequence of such a result, there is a need to highlight the importance of implementing models for analyzing potential future...

The globalization and the global financial crisis provide a new extremely competitive environment for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). During the latest years, the increased number offirms’ default has generated the need of understanding the factors of firms’ default, as SMEs in...

The main object of this research focuses on the empirical study of the causal relation among the degree of openness of the economy, the financial and economic growth using a multi-variate autoregressive model VAR. The long-term relation among GDP, the financial development and the degree of...