This paper examines banking efficiency using recent data from PIGS countries (i.e., Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain), which suffer from debt problems. We employ a two-stage approach based on the effect of several items ...

The purpose of this paper is the examination of the issue of emotional intelligence and job satisfaction, concerning a sample of bank employees in the Greek banking sector. Particularly, this paper examines the concept of ...

This paper presents an extended Aristotelian thesis, which relates sea power to the emergence of new institutions and organizations, which affect, in tuIll, economic performance. Lnstitutions embody new knowledge, leading ...

Greece has started to employ a new measure of financing with quite important success, especially over the last years, and this is the option of financial leasing. The measure has been decreed and put into effect quite ...

La Decentralisation, l' Administration Locale, en general, et le Developpement Regional, sont des sujets de haute importance. De temps a autre, leur importance prend cependant des dimensions considerables etant donne les ...

Le nouveau gouvernement a annonce les cinq axes (prioritaires) de son programme gouvernemental qui se réfèrent à la politique exterieure εt à la défense, à la politique économique et au developpemeni, aux insiitutiüns et ...

On a peur de dire que le passé exerce d'influence profonde au présent et à. partir d'une limite le definit. Le «principe» est bien sûr appliqué et a la fin de l' annee 2003, qui nous «quitte» plein des événements, de ...

Les sujets du developpement regional et des investissements prives sont nombreux et varies: juridiques, financiers, sociaux etc. ils n'ont toutefois pas «attiré », - dans leur ensemble et au même degré - l'attention des ...

This study examines the influence of self-leadership strategies on the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation, creativity, and productivity. It also investigates the psychometric properties of the relatively newly ...

Rapid technological changes in Global markets today, which require rapid responses of markets, make innovation development a prerequisite. Businesses exploit new ideas to create new products, processes or services and new ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide to the Board of Directors and CEOs of a firm to be aware of and accountable for the information they provide to the public. As long as the quality of the companies’ public ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report new original evidence on optimal holding periods and optimal asset allocations (Benartzi and Thaler, 1995). Design/methodology/approach – The authors employ a number of ...

In this study an alternative approach for assessing securities' risk is applied. Various authors have argued that security returns are not homoskedastic but exhibit variation over time. They have observed that large changes ...

It has already become absolutely clear, and time between now and 1/1 /1999 (date of its introduction) serves only too well to confirm this, that the EURO, the currency of the EU Member States that have joined (or will soon ...

It has already become absolutely clear, and time between now and 111/1999 (date of its introduction) serves only too well to confirm this, that the EURO, the currency of the EU Member States that have joined (or will ...

The main aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate the role of three significant factors of the Prospect Theory: the S-shaped value function, the loss aversion, and the distortion of probability, in decision making. In ...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to enrich the existing literature through the results of the research and to provide further information to policy-makers on the part of businesses and the state. This paper focuses on ...

This paper describes an empirical investigation aimed at measuring the effect of different initial values and loss functions (both symmetric and asymmetric) on the post-sample forecasting accuracy. The 1001 series of the ...

The purpose of this article is to study key factors affecting export activity in the Greek manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Under this condition the authors focus on four consecutive sectors of Greek ...

The purpose of this article is to study key factors affecting export activity in the Greek manufacturing small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Under this condition the authors focus on four consecutive sectors of Greek ...