Despite the sharp equity-market sell off in March 2020, due to concerns about the boisterous spread of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), the frenzy of stock trading in U.S. equities over the past twelve months is showing no signs of abating. Recent academic research suggests that, among...

This paper explores the business transactions between a company and its own shareholders, or their affiliates, also known as related party transactions, by compiling a unique panel data set of US public maritime shipping companies for 2011 to 2018, a period of ample liquidity due to extensive...

The decision making process in strategic shipping financial management consists of three main pillars: investment, financing and operation. Each pillar defines its own sub-universe and constitutes its own market with its own rules. The investment pillar refers to the market for newly built and...

­­This paper investigates trade credit, as an alternative source of capital, in the setting of the maritime shipping industry. We employ net working capital, as a proxy variable of trade credit, in a Generalized Method of Moments instrumenting for endogeneity study based on a panel dataset of...