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Article
Publication date: 3 September 2018

Does a high women quota in supervisory boards influence firm success?

Bettina C.K. Binder

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the success of the 50 EURO STOXX companies as measured by the earnings before taxes (EBT) and the…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the success of the 50 EURO STOXX companies as measured by the earnings before taxes (EBT) and the percentage of female members on their supervisory boards.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper relies on data extracted from the annual reports of the 50 EURO STOXX companies in 2015 and from financial websites.

Findings

The paper provides the existence of a weak correlation between companies’ performance as measured by EBT and the percentage of women on supervisory boards.

Research limitations/implications

This study has two main limitations: first, a single key performance indicator was used to measure firms’ success; and second, the study offers insights related only to the year 2015. The analysis could be extended over a larger time span while some other variables could be considered in a more holistic approach.

Practical implications

The paper raises awareness that there is much to be done with regard to the presence of women on boards, and readers, investors and business owners gain an insight on the business environment and women active on European corporate boards.

Originality/value

By concentrating on the companies of the EURO STOXX 50 Index, the study offers a good image of the European business environment.

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EuroMed Journal of Business, vol. 13 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EMJB-02-2018-0011
ISSN: 1450-2194

Keywords

  • Firm performance
  • Key performance indicators
  • Earnings before taxes
  • EURO STOXX 50
  • Gender quota
  • Women on corporate boards

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Publication date: 29 November 2019

Can a High Women Quota in Supervisory Boards Influence Enterprise Success?

Bettina C.K. Binder

Many large companies in Europe include mainly men in supervisory boards and the women quota is often lower than 20%. In Germany an optional women quota of 30% in…

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Many large companies in Europe include mainly men in supervisory boards and the women quota is often lower than 20%. In Germany an optional women quota of 30% in supervisory boards was proposed for capital-market-oriented companies in 2016. Some assume that without a gender quota the earnings of enterprises would shrink as male and female members in supervisory teams do not work in such a harmonized and structured way. Others think that a women quota in supervisory boards should be requested by law and should not remain optional. In this context, conducting research and analyzing the impact of the women’s presence in supervisory boards on the success of companies appear as a necessary topic. The present chapter looks at the companies of EURO STOXX 50 in the year 2015 and their success and tries to establish whether this success can be related to the percentage of female members in supervisory positions. It replicates in this way the study of Binder, Alonso-Almeida, and Bremser (2016) which analyzed the relationship between female’s representation in the management board (executive board) and firm performance (measured by earnings before taxes – EBT) of the EURO STOXX 50 companies in 2014. It is in the same time an extension of the original study as the supervisory board is brought under scrutiny.

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The Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives of Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-249-220191007
ISBN: 978-1-83867-249-2

Keywords

  • Women on corporate boards
  • firm performance
  • key performance indicators
  • gender quota
  • earnings before taxes

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Article
Publication date: 16 September 2013

Remuneration of management in the financial crisis – a study of the 2009 annual reports of the Euro Stoxx 50 companies

Bernd Britzelmaier, Andreas Doll, Michael Häberle and Patrick Kraus

The purpose of this paper is to study the remuneration of management in the financial crisis. What are the key elements of management payment at the Euro Stoxx 50…

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The purpose of this paper is to study the remuneration of management in the financial crisis. What are the key elements of management payment at the Euro Stoxx 50 companies, does management remuneration comprise long-term incentives in order to overcome principal-agent conflicts and how did the financial crisis affect management payment in terms of payment elements and size?

Design/methodology/approach

Based on the Euro Stoxx 50 financial reports of the fiscal year 2009 and other documents elements and size of management payment are being analysed.

Findings

Management payment has been affected by financial crisis. Among the Euro Stoxx 50 companies management remuneration is quite heterogeneous.

Practical implications

There is still a lack of use of appropriate metrics. There are doubts whether measures like TSR really can align manager's decisions to a sustainable, long-term orientated strategy.

Originality/value

The paper gives an insight view in management remuneration at the Euro Stoxx 50 companies.

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EuroMed Journal of Business, vol. 8 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/EMJB-05-2013-0028
ISSN: 1450-2194

Keywords

  • Sustainability
  • Euro Stoxx 50
  • Management payment
  • Management remuneration

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Publication date: 29 November 2019

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The Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives of Management: Challenges and Opportunities
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-249-220191015
ISBN: 978-1-83867-249-2

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Expert briefing
Publication date: 3 April 2017

Remarkable global market stability is unlikely to last

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Financial market volatility.

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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB220015

ISSN: 2633-304X

Keywords

Geographic
International
United States
Topical
economy
bonds
corporate
debt
exchange rate
finance
growth
investment
monetary
politics
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Article
Publication date: 3 July 2020

Football stocks: a new asset class attractive to institutional investors? Empirical results and impulses for researching investor motivations beyond return

Stefan Prigge and Lars Tegtmeier

The aims of the research are twofold: (1) exploring whether football club stocks can be considered an asset class of their own; (2) investigating whether football stocks…

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Purpose

The aims of the research are twofold: (1) exploring whether football club stocks can be considered an asset class of their own; (2) investigating whether football stocks enable well-diversified investors to achieve more efficient risk-return combinations.

Design/methodology/approach

Using efficient frontier optimization, a base portfolio, with standard stocks and bonds, and a corresponding enhanced portfolio, which includes football stocks in the investment opportunity set, are defined. This procedure is applied to four portfolio composition rules. Pairwise comparisons of portfolio Sharpe ratios include a test for statistical significance.

Findings

The results indicate a low correlation of football stocks and standard stocks; thus, football stocks could be considered an asset class of their own. Nevertheless, the addition of football stocks to a well-diversified portfolio does not improve its risk-return efficiency because the weak performance of football stocks eliminates their advantage of low correlation.

Research limitations/implications

This study contributes to the evidence that investments in football are different from ‘ordinary’ investments and need further research, particularly into market participants and their investment motives.

Practical implications

Football stocks are not attractive to pure financial investors. Thus, football clubs need to know more about which side benefits are appreciated by which kind of investor and how much it costs to produce these side benefits.

Originality/value

To the best of authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to analyse the risk-return efficiency of football stocks from the perspective of a pure financial investor, i.e. an investor in football stocks who does not earn side benefits, such as strategic investors or fan investors.

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Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, vol. 10 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-07-2019-0063
ISSN: 2042-678X

Keywords

  • Sports economics
  • Investment decisions
  • Portfolio choice
  • Football stocks
  • Football investors
  • Z2
  • G11
  • G12

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Article
Publication date: 24 June 2019

Testing derivatives pricing models under higher-order moment swaps

Ako Doffou

This paper aims to test three parametric models in pricing and hedging higher-order moment swaps. Using vanilla option prices from the volatility surface of the Euro Stoxx…

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This paper aims to test three parametric models in pricing and hedging higher-order moment swaps. Using vanilla option prices from the volatility surface of the Euro Stoxx 50 Index, the paper shows that the pricing accuracy of these models is very satisfactory under four different pricing error functions. The result is that taking a position in a third moment swap considerably improves the performance of the standard hedge of a variance swap based on a static position in the log-contract and a dynamic trading strategy. The position in the third moment swap is taken by running a Monte Carlo simulation.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper undertook empirical tests of three parametric models. The aim of the paper is twofold: assess the pricing accuracy of these models and show how the classical hedge of the variance swap in terms of a position in a log-contract and a dynamic trading strategy can be significantly enhanced by using third-order moment swaps. The pricing accuracy was measured under four different pricing error functions. A Monte Carlo simulation was run to take a position in the third moment swap.

Findings

The results of the paper are twofold: the pricing accuracy of the Heston (1993) model and that of two Levy models with stochastic time and stochastic volatility are satisfactory; taking a position in third-order moment swaps can significantly improve the performance of the standard hedge of a variance swap.

Research limitations/implications

The limitation is that these empirical tests are conducted on existing three parametric models. Maybe more critical insights could have been revealed had these tests been conducted in a brand new derivatives pricing model.

Originality/value

This work is 100 per cent original, and it undertook empirical tests of the pricing and hedging accuracy of existing three parametric models.

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Studies in Economics and Finance, vol. 36 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-04-2018-0106
ISSN: 1086-7376

Keywords

  • Higher-order moment swaps
  • Log-contract
  • Static position
  • Variance swaps
  • Volatility surface
  • G12
  • G13

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Article
Publication date: 1 November 1999

The euro impact on European financial markets

Mark Holder

Considers the implications of EMU and the introduction of the euro for European financial institutions and markets. Discusses the likely effects on interest rates, banks…

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Considers the implications of EMU and the introduction of the euro for European financial institutions and markets. Discusses the likely effects on interest rates, banks, stock/futures exchanges, asset allocation and the markets for bonds, equities and derivatives. Warns that financial markets and institutions must adjust to these changes in order to survive, but believes that European economies will benefit in the long run.

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Managerial Finance, vol. 25 no. 11
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/03074359910766280
ISSN: 0307-4358

Keywords

  • EMU
  • EURO
  • Financial institutions
  • Financial markets
  • Competitive strategy

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Book part
Publication date: 19 November 2012

Mood-Misattribution Effect on Energy Finance: A Biorhythm Approach

Marc Joëts

Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the relationship between emotion and European energy forward prices of oil, gas, coal and electricity during normal…

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Purpose – The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the relationship between emotion and European energy forward prices of oil, gas, coal and electricity during normal times and periods of extreme price movements.

Methodology/Approach – We use a biorhythm approach characterized by the seasonal affective disorder (SAD) variable to study the impact of emotion on energy markets. Normal times and periods of extreme price movements are approximated by OLS and quantile estimations, respectively.

Findings – We use European energy forward prices of oil, gas, coal, and electricity. European equity future index (Dow Jones Euro Stoxx 50) and euro/dollar US exchange rate are used as control variables for economic and financial environment. Estimating OLS and quantile regressions, we find that seasonal patterns have a significant impact during extreme volatility periods only. Further investigations reveal that the SAD effect is significant during periods of price decrease, but insignificant during price increase times. The out-of-sample predictive ability properties show that our “SAD model” outperforms significantly the pure “macroeconomic” one.

Originality/Value of chapter – This topic is novel in energy finance since I use psychological background theory to understand energy price dynamics. I illustrate the relevance of our approach by comparing the out-of-sample predictive ability of our model against macroeconomic one. My results could be considered to improve energy porfolio allocation.

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Recent Developments in Alternative Finance: Empirical Assessments and Economic Implications
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S1571-0386(2012)0000022016
ISBN: 978-1-78190-399-5

Keywords

  • Energy forward markets
  • behavioral energy finance
  • extreme price movements

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Article
Publication date: 24 June 2019

Further insights into the oil and equity market relationship

Olfa Belhassine and Amira Ben Bouzid

This paper aims to assess the asymmetric effects of oil price shocks and the impact of oil price volatility on the Eurozone’s supersector returns, with a particular…

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This paper aims to assess the asymmetric effects of oil price shocks and the impact of oil price volatility on the Eurozone’s supersector returns, with a particular emphasis on the impact of the subprime crisis and the euro debt crisis (EDC) on this relationship.

Design/methodology/approach

Empirical data consist of daily observations of the 19 EURO STOXX supersector indices and the Brent crude oil price index for the period January 2001 to August 2015. This paper uses a non-linear multifactor market model. This model accounts for heteroscedasticity and breakpoints that are identified by the Bai and Perron (1998, 2003) tests.

Findings

The results show that supersector returns are sensitive to oil price shocks. However, in most cases, their responsiveness to oil price volatility is not significant. The relationship between oil price shocks and supersector returns changes through time and depends on the sector. Financial turbulence affects the oil-stock market nexus. In most cases, the subprime crisis has had a positive impact on the oil-stock market relationship, whereas the EDC has had an overall negative effect. Before the subprime crisis, there is an evidence of asymmetric effects for some supersectors. Meanwhile, for most sectors, the asymmetric effects disappear after 2008.

Originality/value

The study improves understanding of the interaction between oil price risk and the Eurozone sector indices returns. Furthermore, it enables global investors to manage the risk inherent to the portfolio managers’ positions.

Details

Studies in Economics and Finance, vol. 36 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-12-2017-0349
ISSN: 1086-7376

Keywords

  • Subprime crisis
  • Eurozone
  • Euro debt crisis
  • Oil price risk
  • Sector returns
  • Structural breaks
  • C22
  • G12
  • Q43

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