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    • Initial underpricing and the Euronext Lisbon-listed companies 

      Isola, Matias N.; Teixeira, Fernando J. C. S. N.; Ferreira, Fernando A. F. (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This study aims to determine the level of initial underpricing in the Euronext Lisbon-listed companies during a period (1990– 2010) that includes the effects of the current global financial crisis. We employed two methods ...
    • Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014 

      Vilnius Gediminas Technical University; Verslo vadybos fakultetas / Faculty of Business Management (2014)
    • Financial literacy in the Slovak Republic 

      Zvaríková, Katarína; Majerová, Jana (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Money has become integral part of our daily life. It is practically impossible to exist without any specific level of financial knowledge and its consequential implementation. To be able to earn money, save them, protect ...
    • Suite of statistical models forecasting Latvian GDP 

      Bessonovs, Andrejs (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      We develop a suite of statistical models to forecast Latvian GDP. We employ various univariate and multivariate econometric techniques to obtain short-term GDP projections and to assess the performance of the models. We ...
    • Assessment of banks asset and liability management: problems and perspectives (case of Lithuania) 

      Novickytė, Lina; Petraitytė, Indrė (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Asset and liability management is one of the most important risk management measures at a bank. It is one of most important tool for decision making that sets out to maximize stakeholder value. Nevertheless it is important ...
    • Factor returns in the Polish equity market 

      Zaremba, Adam; Konieczka, Przemysław (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The ability to indicate factors which best explains common variation in stock returns, is crucial to construction of a correct pricing model and forecasting equity returns. Taking into account long finance literature, firm ...
    • Economic environment impact on pension system: Case of Latvia 

      Mavlutova, Inese; Titova, Stanislava (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The goal of the state implemented Pension Reform is to create a financially stable and efficient pension scheme that is based on individual social security contributions which in turn will ensure such amount of pension ...
    • The factors of the attractiveness of the capital market of Lithuania 

      Pocius, Viktoras; Stungurienė, Stanislava; Paškevičius, Arvydas (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The integration of world financial markets, the development of new information technologies, the availability and dependability of information and the competitiveness of national stock exchanges have considerably altered ...
    • Seniors’ position on the labor market from the point of view of income and related insurance and health contributions 

      Blechová, Beáta; Janoušková, Jana; Sobotovičová, Šárka (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Demographic aging is an objective reality and in the case of the Czech Republic is extensive and multi-dimensional. And it is the problems of the economic activity of citizens until the advanced age. Former pension systems ...
    • SMEs and integration driving factors to regional and global value chains 

      Brazinskas, Sigitas; Beinoravičius, Julius (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The principal objective of this paper is to unravel and assess current integration factors of SMEs to global value chains from the internationalization perspective and through an information exchange between suppliers and ...
    • The level of CEO compensation for the short and long-term – a view on high-tech firms 

      Faria, Paula; Martins, Francisco Vitorino; Brandão, Elísio (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This study examines the relationship between corporate performance and the Chief Executive Officer compensation in high-technology firms in the S&P 1500. The total CEO compensation and short and long-term compensations ...
    • Theoretical framework and an overview of the cost drivers that are applied in universities for allocating indirect costs 

      Toompuu, Katrin; Põlajeva, Tatjana (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The major task of cost accounting is connected with the allocation of indirect costs to cost objects. To allocate indirect costs (also called as overhead or common costs) to cost objects cost drivers are selected as the ...
    • The Visegrad Group Countries – changes in intra-industry competitiveness of their economies during the world financial and economic crisis 

      Molendowski, Edward (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This article contributes to the discussion on changes in intra-industry competitiveness of the economies of the Visegrad Group countries during the crisis. It attempts to prove the thesis that in the case of the analyzed ...
    • Comparative research in the area of corporate income tax 

      Ježek, Filip (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The comparison is a concept which mainly represents a method of comparing any entities. Due to the fact that in literature are used various concepts in various situations, in this paper are firstly clarified some concepts ...
    • Basel III: countercyclical capital buffer proposalthe case of Baltics 

      Brasliņš, Ģirts; Arefjevs, Ilja (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The objective of countercyclical capital buffer is to encourage banks to build up buffers in good times that can be drawn down in bad times. The aim of the report is to assess such decisions by banks derived from two ...
    • Using option strategies in trading 

      Šoltés, Michal (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This article is focused on trading stocks and improvement of long and short positions in case of negative stock’s price development. For this purpose, we use Vertical Ratio Call Spread and Vertical Ratio Put Spread option ...
    • Using of strategic management tools in conditions of local self-government in Slovakia 

      Gecíková, Ivana; Papcunová, Viera (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Current trends in public administration lead to economic, efficient and effective use of finance, human and material sources in the area of local self-government. Also management of municipality property prefer methods and ...
    • Performance measurement and management in Czech enterprises 

      Rylková, Žaneta; Bernatík, Werner (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Changes in business conditions change the requirements on management systems in three main areas: conception and management techniques, in information security and in profession skills and knowledge base of employees. The ...
    • Lithuanian experience of quantitative evaluation of socioeconomic systems position by multicriteria methods 

      Ginevičius, Romualdas; Suhajda, Karel; Petraškevičius, Vladislavas; Šimkūnaitė, Jolita (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Multicriteria evaluation methods were applied in Lithuania for the evaluation of construction projects by various aspects more than thirty years ago. It appeared to be a universal technique to reflect the condition of any ...
    • Increase of company efficiency through the investment to the employees and its quantitative valuation 

      Korenková, Marcela; Urbaníková, Marta (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      At present times, many managers do not realize that the qualified, helpful and friendly employee can be their main competitive advantage. To become like that, the employee has to feel the employer is interested in him. ...