The empirical literature over the past decade has often addressed the issue of operational efficiency within microfinance institutions. This paper extends Arnone, Bellavite Pellegrini and Messa (2010), which recognized the importance of strictly financial aspects of MFIs, nearing them to the...

Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of...

Corporate finance literature has devoted much effort in analysing stock returns and in developing models in order to precisely forecast their yields on the market, because of the different useful purposes of these forecasts that animate economic life of countries and corporations.Following a new...

The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical assessment and outline issues in criminal regulation relating to international anti-money laundering (AML) programs. Design/methodology/approach – In the first part, this paper outlines the serious threats posed by transnational laundering...

The purpose of the article is two-fold:1) To provide an outline of the main results of our upcoming book Corruption Economic Analysis and Evolution of the International Law and Institutions, by focusing in particular on the economic findings along with the policies we deem must be widely...