Vasiu Diana Elena

• PhD
• Research Assistant at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

ESG criteria serve as a cornerstone for sustainable business practices, but the growing emphasis on sustainability has led to a surge in ESG rating providers, introducing significant challenges. ESG ratings are inherently complex and often differ across agencies, due to a lack of standardized parameters, risks of green-washing, and the perceived tr...

The growing emphasis on sustainability has led to a rise of ESG rating providers, but this expansion has brought challenges. ESG ratings are complex and can vary significantly between agencies, due to different scoring methods and non-standardized disclosures, making accurate assessments difficult. Moreover, investors and companies express limited...

Nowdays investors and other stakeholders increasingly consider ESG factors when making investment decisions. They were supported by numerous rating agencies that developed a large number of indices and reporting standards to facilitate the choice of the most sustainable companies from an ESG perspective. When the relationship between financial perf...

The approach of sustainability from an ESG perspective is used worldwide for over 50 years, but on the Romanian Capital Market, is still extremely modest, only a small number of listed companies reporting on their ESG performance. However, this scenario is anticipated to change starting with financial year 2023, as new regulations from the European...

Alongside with the acquisition and the efficient use of assets (investment decision and asset management), financial managers are concerned with their financing. The capital structure of a company is of interest not only for practitioners but also for theorists so that in the last six decades important theories were developed from the capital struc...

If the concept of sustainability and sustainable development has been used for over 50 years, its use in the financial world is more recent. Today, companies and investors focus on ESG that stands for Environmental Social Governance. Capital markets can be a powerful tool for creating change. By restricting access to capital, companies are stimulat...

In the context of the last turbulent three years, the energy industry in Romania had to face additional problems, due to the liberalization of the energy market. Despite pursuing profit as the immediate goal of a company, obtaining and maintaining the financial equilibrium becomes more and more important for the survival and the development of a co...

Beginning in the first days of 2020 the COVID pandemic spread rapidly worldwide, severely contaminating all areas. Among the first affected were the world capital markets. This paper analyses the way the COVID generated crisis has affected financial performance of companies listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange, main market, during the first pandemic...

The first case of coronavirus was registered in Romania on February 26. From this moment, Romania has become “infected”, just like the whole world, and the economy has suffered milder or more severe symptoms, depending on the activity field. Four months have passed since then, during which in Romania, the effects of the health crisis overlapped wit...

On December 29, 2018, the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 114/2018 has been published. This Ordinance, among others, established a multitude of measures, both economic and fiscal that aimed companies acting in the energy field. The monetary contribution, received from the license holders in the field of energy, was set at the level of 2 %, which...

Insolvency represents the state of the debtor’s patrimony characterized by insufficient funds available for the payment of certain, liquid and due debts. It may occur even in case of strong companies, for example, in case of listed companies, generating loses for investors. In economic theory, a series of insolvency risk prediction models were deve...

The results we obtained are invalidating the research hypothesis: there is a strong and direct link between the evolution of BET-NG index and the financial performance ratios of the component companies. The analysis performed on the correlations between the evolution of BET-NG index and financial performance ratios indicates that in the majority of...

In order to analyze the potential of listed companies, the scientific literature suggests modern indicators that are built using value creation concepts. The attention of specialists, both theoreticians and practitioners, is directed towards the approach of company’s performance based on the created value. Traditional management based on analyzing...

The stock markets are considered to be the most sensitive markets, the variation of the titles course being generated by multiple objective and subjective factors. When social or political events take place, the stock market is rising or falling, and the press takes over and disseminates this information. Starting from this context, we analyze the...

The specialized literature suggests the modern analytical indicators of the listed companies’ potential, in their construction starting from the concept of value creation. One of this indicators is Cash Flow Return on Investment (CFROI-Rli), considered as the best measuring indicator of value creation. It represents an internal rate of return on in...

Beyond the financial performance assessed on the basis of profit and loss account, evaluating a company is made from the perspective of its ability to cope with due debts. A situation that was often encountered by companies listed on the BSE was insolvency, currently affecting six companies, while other have emerged from this process, being traded...