The study analyses the impact of country’s governance factors on the financial behaviour and performance of financial intermediaries operating in European Union countries, by covering the period 2000-2017. Empirical evidence provided by the paper relies on a set of financial and political...

An increasing body of recent literature focuses on how stock market investor sentiment fluctuates during the pandemic. However, a topic insufficiently addressed is related to investigating the changes occurred in the economic sentiment and expectations during COVID-19 pandemic, as a broader...

The major focus of this paper is on the sovereign-banks relationship following the COVID- 19 pandemic crisis outbreak, with a view to gaining an insight into banks' exposure to the sovereign. We rely on a series of complementary research approaches, such as desk research, comparative statistical...

The study analyses the impact of country's governance factors on the financial behaviour and performance of financial intermediaries operating in European Union countries, by covering the period 2000-2017. Empirical evidence provided by the paper relies on a set of financial and political...

An increasing body of recent literature focuses on how stock market investor sentiment fluctuates during the pandemic. However, a topic insufficiently addressed is related to investigating the changes occurred in the economic sentiment and expectations during COVID-19 pandemic, as a broader...

The major focus of this paper is on the sovereign-banks relationship following the COVID- 19 pandemic crisis outbreak, with a view to gaining an insight into banks' exposure to the sovereign. We rely on a series of complementary research approaches, such as desk research, comparative statistical...