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Financial penalties and bank performance

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2017
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of financial penalties on the profitability and stock performance of banks. Using a unique dataset of 671 financial penalties imposed on 68 international listed banks over the period 2007 to 2014, we find a negative relation between financial penalties and pre-tax profitability but no relation with after ...
Köster, Hannes, Pelster, Matthias
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Productivity, profitability and financial performance

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2008
This work presents a comparative analysis of two crucial dimensions of firms’ performance: profitability and productivity. The characteristics of their empirical distribution and the associated degree of persistence over time are explored through a set of parametric and non-parametric exercises performed on an exhaustive panel of Italian firms, active ...
Giulio Bottazzi, Angelo Secchi, Federico Tamagni   +2 more
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Measuring Financial Performance: An Overview of Financial Statements

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 1995
Financial management has emerged as a critical component in the long-term viability of today's ranches and farms. Proper and timely financial reporting and analysis of financial statements are valuable tools that agricultural producers can use to monitor, coordinate, and plan their operational production and marketing schemes and strategies.
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The financial system and economic performance

Journal of Financial Services Research, 1990
The core function of the financial system is to facilitate the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment. This system includes the basic payment system through which virtually all transactions clear and the capital markets which include the money, fixed-income, equity, futures, and ...
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Hospital strategy and financial performance

Health Care Management Review, 1992
Five archetype strategies are studied involving productivity, diversification, or a hybrid approach. Manager opinions, staffing ratios, and profitability data bring the strategy effectiveness issue into perspective. Hospitals employing the productivity/defender strategy, specializing in fewer product lines, experienced less decline in profitability in ...
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Financial incentives and the "performance of crowds"

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation, 2009
The relationship between financial incentives and performance, long of interest to social scientists, has gained new relevance with the advent of web-based "crowd-sourcing" models of production. Here we investigate the effect of compensation on performance in the context of two experiments, conducted on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT).
Winter A. Mason, Duncan J. Watts
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On the nature and financial performance of bitcoin

The Journal of Risk Finance, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide some insights on the true nature of bitcoin and to study empirically its performance by using robust models, widely used in the academic literature. Previous studies assess performance with simple measures such as the Sharpe ratio.
Alfieri, Élise, Burlacu, Radu, Enjolras, Geoffroy   +2 more
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Appraising financial performance for financial institutions

Long Range Planning, 1980
Abstract The author is an investment analyst whose area of specialization is financial shares, especially in banking. The prime responsibility of the investment analyst is to the investment institutions. However, the information available to the analyst is no more than that available to shareholders in the institution being monitored.
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ESG performance and financial performance

The Korean Career, Entrepreneurship & Business Association
ESG, as sustainability issue, is stressed in both processes of government policy making and corporate strategy development. The purpose of this paper is examining the ESG situations related to both the government and private companies in Korea. The first part investigates the diverse policies and initiatives related to ESG in Korea.
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Financial Literacy and Financial Performance of SMEs

International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of financial Literacy on the financial performance of small and medium Size enterprises (SMEs). In order to attain the aforementioned objective, we use a quantitative research approach. Survey questionnaires were used to collect data from a sample of 145 SMEs sampled using convenient sampling.
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