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Оценка влияния финансовой архитектуры на эффективность компаний европейского ритейла
The article examines the assessment of financial architecture influence on the European retail companies’ efficiency. The approach is based on a comprehensive analysis of the influence of the financial architecture components. Hypothesis tested on the basis of data on public companies of European retail listed on the London Stock Exchange from 2004 to 2015.
To substantiate the relationship between the financial architecture and the company's performance indicators in the study, the following metrics are analyzed: ROA, reflecting the return on total assets; Tobin Q, reflecting the investment attractiveness of the company; EVA strategic efficiency indicator, reflecting the company's economic profit (taking into account the definition of the weighted average cost of capital).
In order to model the impact of financial architecture influence on the companies’ efficiency in the work, the panel regression method is implemented, which allows increasing the number of observations, minimizing the collinearity between explanatory variables, and increasing the effectiveness of the estimates obtained. In order to obtain application conclusions, two models were built: a model with fixed effects, allowing to take into account additional characteristics of the company; Model with random effects, which allows to minimize the shortcomings of the first model.
The analysis showed that the financial architecture of retail companies affects their strategic and operational efficiency (EVA and Tobin Q), but does not affect their balance performance indicator (ROA).
As a result of this study, the determinants of the efficiency of large European retailers were identified, and a model of strategic efficiency based on the concept of financial architecture was implemented.