Essays on Financial Analytics

Foreign exchange risk hedging policy: Evidence from France.- Use of Financial Instruments among the Chilean households.- IFRS 9 -Financial Assets: Debt Instrument Classification and Management under the new Accounting Standard. A case study of Greek Government Bonds, in Banks' Investment Portfolios.-Investor Attention and Bitcoin Trading Behaviors.- An answer to Roll's critique (1977) forty five years later.- Detecting Equity Style Information within Institutional Media.- An Advanced Approach to Algorithmic Portfolio Management.- Financial analytics and decision-making strategies: future prospects from Bibliometrix based on R package.- MONETARY UTILITY FUNCTIONS AND RISK FUNCTIONALS.- Cryptocurrency Portfolios Using Heuristics.- Geographic Dispersion and IPO Underpricing.- The Rise of Fintech & Healthcare SPACs.-KOOPMAN  OPERATORS  AND  EXTENDED  DYNAMIC  MODE  DECOMPOSITION  FOR ECONOMIC  GROWTH  MODELS  IN  TERMS  OF  FRACTIONAL  DERIVATIVES.- Efficiency, taxation & solvency issues for SMEs: The case of Greece, Italy and Spain.

Dr. Pascal Alphonse is a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the University of Lille (France) and at SKEMA Business School (France). Having specialized in international accounting and company valuation, Professor Alphonse has published articles in leading scientific journals and books.

Dr. Karima Bouaiss is an Associate Professor at the University of Lille (France). Having specialized in banking regulation, corporate governance and innovation financing, Dr. Bouaiss has published articles in leading scientific journals.

Dr. Pascal Grandin is a Full Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Lille (France) and Dean of the IAE Lille University School of Management. Having specialized in portfolio management, corporate finance and behavioral finance, Professor Grandin has published articles in leading scientific journals and books.

Dr. Constantin Zopounidis is a Professor at the Technical University of Crete (Greece) and Audencia Business School (France). Having specialized in MCDM methods, financial decisions and operations research techniques, he has published several articles in leading scientific journals and books.