We build the network of the top 190 Italian quoted companies during the two financial crises of 2008-2009 (US credit crisis) and 2010-2011 (European sovereign debt crisis) and compare its structure to the pre-crises years, using both minimum spanning trees and the full network with thresholds. We also analyze the centrality and compactness of industry sectors. We find a general contraction of t...

We model a financial market in which companies engage in strategic financial reporting knowing that investors only pay attention to a randomly drawn sample from firms’ reports and extrapolate from this sample. We investigate the extent to which stock prices differ from the fundamental values, assuming that companies must report all their activities but are otherwise free to disaggregate their r...

BACKGROUND Current literature systematically reports that interventions to attract and retain health workers in underserved areas need to be context specific but rarely defines what that means. In this systematic review, we try to summarize and analyse context factors influencing the implementation of interventions to attract and retain rural health workers. METHODS We searched online databas...

We study the resource allocation decisions of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs). We examine how established MNCs grow across countries and how firm-specific resources and host-country financial-market development influence MNC growth. We find no evidence of within-firm tradeoffs to growth in MNCs with greater measures of organizational capital, knowledge resources and access to financing. ...

The municipalities and united territorial communities of Ukraine after the Russian aggression have a huge deficit financial resources to reconstruct all destruction caused infrastructure. One possible ways obtain funding is attract private resources. best practices other states show that it through municipal instruments, particularly debt securities. purpose article analyze attracting by establ...

Once again, I would like to salute the initiative to hold this Forum in our country, giving us the opportunity to deepen our quest for better health for the world’s peoples, and to reaffi rm that working together, a better world is possible. For our part, we have opened our arms, minds and hearts to join you in pursuit of these objectives, enhanced by the diverse points of view and thoughtful o...