Eleonora Monaco

• Assistant Professor of Accounting and Finance, Catolica Porto Business School
• Senior Assistant Professor at University of Bologna

We investigate the consequences of adopting a new accrual-based relief mechanism on private firms’ borrowing capacity. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Italian government implemented a temporary change in accounting rules that allowed firms to suspend up to the entire amount of their depreciation and amortisation charges. Using a sample of Italian...

This paper aims to assess the profitability and employees’ productivity of Italian innovative start-ups with a new composite index: the Start-ups Performance score (SP-score). In recent years, the Italian government has made several efforts to foster the economy, establishment, and growth of start-ups. Specifically, the issuing of the Italian Start...

We investigate how the liquidity and trading activity effects of the announcement of the acquisition of private targets vary by payment method. We find significant increases in trading activity around acquisition announcement dates irrespective of the payment method used; however, fluctuations are lower for acquisitions financed by earnouts and cas...

Digital technologies have created new alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance that create significant opportunities for start-ups and entrepreneurs. Among them, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have attracted significant attention from the start-up community and from investors. Despite all the hype around ICOs and the growing number of new toke...

2021): The effect of media coverage on target firms' trading activity and liquidity around domestic acquisition announcements: evidence from UK, The European Journal of Finance To link to this article: https://doi. ABSTRACT This study investigates the effect of news media coverage on trading activity in, and the liquidity of, target firms' shares a...

This chapter provides a review on key literature on High-Frequency Trading (HFT) over an 11-year period. Using a thematic analysis, the main themes developed within this research stream are identified and insights on the evolution of theory in relation to HFT are presented. This analysis highlights that the effects of HFT on market liquidity, tradi...

Dalla scelta del metodo di pagamento (cash, stock o misto) mediante il quale finanziare un’operazione di acquisizione possono derivare importanti conseguenze economiche, fra cui il mantenimento (o la perdita) della governance dell’impresa e il conseguimento di rendimenti azionari positivi – o negativi – generati dalla reazione degli investitori all...

We investigate trading activity and liquidity effects of methods of payment on the stock prices of acquiring firms around private firm acquisition announcements. We find significant rises in trading activity around acquisition announcement dates irrespective of the payment method used; however, fluctuations are lower for earnouts and cash payment o...

This paper examines the impact of algorithmic trading (AT) on market liquidity around periods of high information asymmetry when available liquidity is more valuable. We identify the implementation of proximity hosting services by Borsa Italiana, that are expected to increase AT, in order to examine the behaviour of liquidity around earnings announ...

The concept of entrepreneurship has developed during the past decades and has a long history in the business sector. Miller et al. (2009) refer that entrepreneurship is an important part of the economic scenery, providing opportunities and jobs for substantial numbers of people. Audresch et al. (2002) clarify how the positive and statistically robu...

Policy makers are increasingly recognizing the central role of technology transfer from Universities into academic spinoffs that commercially exploit the research results and new technologies developed within academic scientists. The ability of universities to stimulate entrepreneurial activity and creation of new ventures would influence the econo...