The dynamic impact of financial market capitalisation on South Africa’s unemployment and economic growth is empirically explored in this study using the finance-augmented Solow model framework. South Africa’s high rate of structural unemp...
Large companies in the European Union are required to publish information related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. The aim of our study is to determine the quality of ESG reporting in EU public companies (measured by the ESG-ind...
The concentration of market capitalisation inside the S&P 500 rose sharply between 2016 and 2025, and it rose far faster than wealth concentration among American households. We establish this by treating index constituents as a population whose i...
The global energy sector is undergoing rapid and, in many respects, irreversible transformation driven by the convergence of digital disruption, sustainability mandates, and shifting investor expectations. Technologies such as artificial intelligence...
In recent years, the field of “ESG finance” has seen rapid growth, resulting in the emergence and expansion of ESG ratings and rating agencies. This study investigates how financial investors react to updates in ESG ratings provided by tw...
This study investigates the determinants for the use of derivatives by firms in the Indian market. Using a sample of 433 firms listed in the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in India for the period 2013–2018, we find that firm size, debt to equity...
As corporate accountability, credibility, transparency, and stakeholders’ trust continue to attract global attention, this study examines how corporate reputation influences audit fees and whether audit fees, in turn, shape reputation. Hence, t...
Equity studies are conducted by professionals, who also provide buy/hold/sell recommendations to investors. Nowadays, target prices determined by financial analysts are publicly available to investors, who may decide to use them for investment purpos...
This article aims to assess the usefulness of excess market value added to equity as an external measure of company value creation from the perspective of meeting shareholder expectations. This measure compares the expected value as an increase in st...
The current study argues that the capitalisation effect of urban public facilities on housing will be considerable when the accessibility or availability of facilities has a serious stake in the location or property rights of houses. The supply level...
The firm’s valuation (FV) is the key element for all stakeholders, particularly the investors, for their investment decisions. The main impetus of this research is to estimate the effects of the debt ratio (DR, i.e., leverage) on the FV (i.e.,...
Our study aims to analyse whether the capitalisation of a property’s energy performance is affected by how it is presented. In place since 2002, there is an EU directive mandating the introduction of an energy performance certificate (EPC) when...
This study examines the pattern of active versus passive trading in UK equities over the period 1991-2005. We describe a metric to analyse trading activity and volumes in the UK FTSE350 and AIM markets, with emphasis on industrial and size-based effe...
This study examines the effect of regulatory capital requirements on bank performance in Nigeria. The study utilises panel data from the audited annual reports and accounts of 13 deposit money banks, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigerian Excha...
This paper examines the stochastic behaviour of the realized betas in the CAPM model for the ten largest companies in terms of market capitalisation included in the U.S. Dow Jones stock market index. Fractional integration methods are applied to esti...
The aim of this study was to examine the impact of adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) on the development of African stock exchanges. The study examined a panel of 11 African stock exchanges for the period 2008–2017 and em...
The total capital in cryptocurrency markets is around two trillion dollars in 2022, which is almost the same as Apple’s market capitalisation at the same time. Increasingly, cryptocurrencies have become established in financial markets with an...
The purpose of this study is to explore the interaction between copyright, branding, marketing, and heritage protection with regard to a fashion brand. The authors use analytical-critical and legal-dogmatic methods, supplemented with desk research, a...
The aim of this paper is to analyse Bitcoin in order to shed some light on its nature and behaviour. We select 9 cryptocurrencies that account for almost 75% of total market capitalisation and compare their evolution with that of a wide variety of tr...
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The present study is on the five cryptocurrency daily mean return time series linearity dynamics during the Covid-19 period. These cryptocurrencies were chosen based on their influence on the market, primarily driven by its market capitalisation. Tet...
The purpose of the Bank for International Settlements regulatory agenda, as implemented by financial regulators globally, has been to make banks safer and reduce the likelihood of systemic events. Using an original model of bank profit maximisation u...
Open-market repurchase is a popular corporate payout method that public limited company (PLCs) use, and once they have made this decision an announcement is made. However, the announcement does not necessarily mean that the firm will implement the pa...
Online food delivery (OFD) platforms have changed how consumers purchase food prepared outside of home by capitalising on convenience and smartphone technology. Independent food outlets encompass a substantial proportion of partnering outlets, but th...
Cryptocurrencies and their market capitalisation have experienced vibrant growth in the last few years. Their total market cap is more than USD 858 billion as of the date of writing and is growing, with nearly 21,984 tradeable cryptos in 530 exchange...
This study considers the impact of the FATF’s greylisting process from a market perspective. The results are intended to inform the development of public policy and improvement of market signalling. The study develops a theoretical market impac...
This study explored the key considerations of commercial property investors acting under conditions of economic uncertainty across the following three dimensions: market fundamentals, institutional, and behavioural factors. Over the past few decades,...
Central banks have been pursuing an expansionary monetary policy since before the pandemic, although the health and economic crisis of COVID-19 has boosted asset purchase programmes. After the Great Recession, a new phase began, characterised by low...
Active asset managers increasingly include cryptocurrencies in their alternative asset allocations, highlighting their speculative and volatile nature. The aim of this research is to examine trends in the returns and volatility of cryptocurrencies, w...
Financing frameworks for Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) are lacking in developing countries. This study aims to develop a financing framework for adoption for water and sanitation PPP infrastructure projects in Zimbabwe. Using data covering...
This study examines the effect of road traffic noise on apartment prices in Kraków, treated on an equal footing with the other price-forming attributes. The analysis draws on 6244 transactions from the primary and secondary markets concluded b...
In the modern digitalised era, the total number of businesses and organisations utilising crowdsourcing services has risen, leading to an increase of their website traffic. In this way, there is plenty of space for marketers and strategists to capita...
Portfolio management, a critical application of financial market analysis, involves optimising asset allocation to maximise returns while minimising risk. This paper addresses the notable research gap in analysing historical financial data for portfo...
The stock market is an essential sub-sector in the financial area. Both understanding and evaluating the mountains of collected stock data has become a challenge in relevant fields. Data visualisation techniques can offer a practical and engaging met...
Urban amenities are spatially localized attributes and resources within urban contexts that provide residents and potential newcomers with utility and attractiveness. This review combines bibliometric and content analyses of 568 papers retrieved from...
Indian public sector banks (PSBs) operate under Basel III guidelines, which mandate capital adequacy, liquidity standards, and systematic risk management across credit, market, and operational risk dimensions. This study analyses Basel III Pillar 3 d...
This study analyses whether the board characteristics (diversity attributes, competitive capital, time commitment) of companies listed on the Financial Times Stock Exchange FTSE100 exhibit a different performance compared to those associated with con...
The Maraichine breed of cattle originates from the Loire region of France and has been under a conservation programme since 1986. This programme links the conservation of the breed with the conservation of its traditional environment of wet grassland...
In the context of the growing prominence of socially responsible investment, the debate over whether sustainable corporate practices translate into sustained shareholder value has intensified. As a key tool for aligning their investment portfolios wi...
Many parts of the world, and South Africa specifically, are facing a water crisis, not only because of the scarcity of water, but also the quality of the available water. Apart from agriculture, industry is viewed as the second largest user of water...
This research aims to identify the influence of fiscal policy, financial development and economic growth on the increase of renewable consumption in Romania. To achieve our objective, we employ bivariate regressions through the Autoregressive Distrib...
The growing presence of women at the top of companies has sparked interest in examining their role in the remuneration gap between senior managers and employees. This article analyses the traditional Chief Executive Officer (CEO)-to-employee pay rati...
The transformation of time series into complex networks through visibility graphs is an innovative way to study time-based events. In this work, we use visibility graphs to transform IOTA and IoTeX price volatility time series into complex networks....
New approaches to improve organisational performance in firms are evolving in this data-driven age. However, there is lack of studies in examining the relationship between revenue, net profit, cash flow per share, and earnings per share. The energy s...
The proliferation of non-scheduled generation from renewable electrical energy sources such concentrated solar power (CSP) presents a need for enabling scheduled generation by incorporating energy storage; either via directly coupled Thermal Energy S...
In this article, we model the two most market-capitalised public, open and permissionless blockchain implementations, Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), as a System of Systems (SoS) of public blockchains. We study the concepts of blockchain, BTC, ETH,...
As rapid urbanisation accelerates in Global South cities, regulatory upzoning is widely promoted as a tool to expand supply and foster compact growth. Yet the interaction between permissive rules, market valuation, and institutional capacity remains...
This research enhances the literature on bank capital structure by combining financial intermediation theory with technological innovation to analyse the impact of FinTech adoption and liquidity management on leverage choices in South African banks....
Predicting systemic stress in high-dimensional equity markets remains challenging, owing to non-stationarity, heavy tails, and regime shifts. This paper introduces GWS-STNet (Gaussian-Weighted Swin Spatio-Temporal Network), a deep learning architectu...
In this paper, we use the methods of networks science to analyse the transaction networks of tokens running on the Ethereum blockchain. We start with a deep dive on four of them: Ampleforth (AMP), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Dai (DAI) and Uniswap (U...
Selected biological resources used as raw materials in beer production are important drivers of innovation and segmentation in the dynamic market of craft beers. Among these resources, local/regional ingredients have several benefits, such as strengt...
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