- Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
- Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
- Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
- Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
- Stock Market Forecasting Methods
- Private Equity and Venture Capital
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
- Media Influence and Politics
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Global Financial Crisis and Policies
- Public-Private Partnership Projects
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
- Economic Growth and Development
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Market Dynamics and Volatility
University of Ljubljana
2017-2024
Stakeholders have become increasingly interested in sustainable practices, leading to intense investigation the literature of their effects on companies' returns. However, not much information is available about effect environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversy financial performance. Inappropriate social behavior environmental scandals attract attention media and, consequently, among investors. Therefore, this study analyzes impact ESG return equity, identifying differences...
This study empirically examines how reported corporate misconducts affect the stock returns of US firms. As are broadcasted in newspaper outlets, cumulative abnormal return (CAR) is -4.1%. Involvement a misconduct gets punished by market participants especially when act blamed on level corporation rather than involvement specific individual, take place home market, and linguistic tone used article negative. Financial penalties imposed, firm size, leverage, revenue growth, foreign exposure...
We investigate President Donald J. Trump’s unprecedented use of social media, notably Twitter, to attack, pressure, and compliment specific firms. Our results show that Trump is more likely tweet firms from his business network, could help him in implementing or justifying economic policy. study offers a setting for studying the impact media posts on capital market when there change political power. The findings provide new evidence showing investors are react released by an influential...
This study examines the relation between voluntary audit and cost of debt in private firms. We use a sample 4,058 small firms operating period 2006‐2017 that are not subject to mandatory audits. Firms decide for financial statements either because economic setting which they operate effectively forces them do so (e.g., ownership complexity, export‐oriented supply chain, subsidiary status) or firm fundamentals and/or reporting practices limit their access debt, both reflected earnings...
This paper examines IPO underpricing from the institutional investor perspective in emerging markets. Observing market adjusted returns for several countries, industries, and years, results show evidence that phenomenon is present across all markets, averaging at 30.29% on first trading day, 27.98% month. Underpricing particularly stands out China, Basic Materials industry, during 2007/2008 financial crisis period, increases with higher levels of property rights protection decreases...