The term online peer-to-peer lending (P2P) describes the loan origination process between private individuals on online platforms were financial institutions operate only as intermediates required by law. Initialized by groups in online social networks, first commercial online P2P lending platforms started in 2005. Thus online P2P lending is a relatively young research field. This paper gives a...

The purpose of this study is to investigate key characteristics for the competitiveness in Greek agro-firms during the time period 2004 to 2011, based on firm level financial data. The study attempts to determine the firms’ efficiency as well as the impact of exporting activity in agro-firms competitiveness, and more specifically in fisheries, farms with livestock and farms with fruits, vegetab...

The incongruence between corporate governance and financial performance has resulted in the collapse, liquidation, diminished profitability of several corporations Kenya. Instructively, companies have been delisted from Kenyan bourse as a result irregularities failures that curtail their profitability. Specifically, audits pointed to governance, which highlight lethargy directors addressing age...

BACKGROUND Disclosure of financial conflicts of interest (COI) is intended to help reviewers assess the impact of potential bias on the validity of research results; however, there have been no empiric assessments of how reviewers understand and use disclosures in article evaluation. We investigate reviewers' perceptions of potential bias introduced by particular author disclosures, and whether...

A considerable amount of research has investigated the linkage between top management team (TMT) characteristics and firm financial performance. Much of this research relies on demographic data. While these data are reliable and accessible, findings across studies are not consistent. Meta-analysis of several TMT indicators and firm financial performance provides modest support for direct relati...

This is the first of two articles that provide a broad overview of the structure and general characteristics of the money and bond markets in New Zealand. This first article briefly reviews the financial markets as a whole and describes the deregulation that has occurred in New Zealand’s financial markets over recent years. Crown securities on issue are examined in some depth and the article co...

We consider the bicriteria investment Boolean problem of finding the Pareto set based on efficiency and risk criteria. The quantitative stability characteristics of the problem are investigated, and lower and upper bounds for a stability radius are obtained for the case where portfolio and financial market state spaces are endowed with the Hölder metric. Calculation of these bounds provides inv...