The financial industry is in midst of a fundamental transformation. Changes in customer behavior and the impact of information technology are believed to change the financial industry from hierarchical to market-based structures. Although electronic markets in the financial services industry are well known in B2B processes such as e.g. stock exchanges, only little research has been undertaken T...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of conflict of interest disclosure policies by comparing a competing interests disclosure statement that met the requirements established by the journal in a 2003 article on health effects of secondhand smoke based on the American Cancer Society CPS-I dataset with internal tobacco industry documents describing financial ties between the tobacco industry and...

The immeasurable potential productivity and high-growth characters contained in Internet Economy attract financial industry to develop internet financial service promptly, which will be mainstream tendency in this century. It has changed the function of traditional financial company and the structure of financial organization. Electronic money has also made the central bank loss the money suppl...

In this paper, we examine the effect of intra-industry credit contagion using three different kinds of intra-industry measures in our empirical study. We apply the competitive strategic measure (CSM) of Sundaram et al. (1996) to capture the strategic interaction faced by firms. We also consider the measure of industry-wide financial distress and the measure of equity correlations. We use the fo...

The paper explores the evolving relationship between the port and terminal industry and the financial sector. Since the financial industry has taken an active role in global economic affairs, understanding global trade and transportation requires more than ever a perspective about financial issues and their impacts on transport operations. Paradoxically, the recent analytical emphasis on the st...

Financial ratios provide an illustration of the financial situation, the company's returns, and the future opportunities of business units. Considering that in traditional methods, the effect of financial ratios on efficiency has been investigated so far, it did not look right; therefore, we sought a method that It can be used to see the effect of financial ratios. In the process of data envelo...

CONTEXT Disclosure of conflicts of interest (COIs) from pharmaceutical industry study funding and author-industry financial relationships is sometimes recommended for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in biomedical journals. Authors of meta-analyses, however, are not required to report COIs disclosed in original reports of included RCTs. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether meta-analy...

The banking industry has been a pioneer in adopting electronic markets with exchanges, clearinghouses, and multilateral trading facilities having become the backbone of today’s globally integrated financial transactions. While most banks use the services of these electronic markets to handle interbank processes, they still strive for bilateral relations in the field of customer-facing processes...