William A. Barnett is the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas, Director at the Center for Financial Stability in New York City, Founder and First President of the Society for Economic Measurement, and Editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics.Bruno S. Sergi is an instructor at Harvard University, a faculty affiliate at the Center for International Development at Harvard, and an Associate at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

• Chapter 1. The Relationship Between Good Stewardship, Agency Costs, and Performance of South African Firms; Siphiwe Zungu, Nicole Kandaswami, Taliya Gunpath, Naseeba Limalia, Tahlia Reddy, Divania Govender, Hilary T. Muguto, and Paul-Francois Muzindutsi Chapter 2. Can West African Monetary Zone Form a Currency Union?; Obalade A. A., Moodley T., Ncama N., Mkhize N., Pillay M., and Singh T Chapter 3. Risk and Mutual Fund Clustering in an Emerging Market: Evidence for Thailand; Surachai Chancharat and Arisa Phadungviang Chapter 4. Zero-Investment Portfolio Strategy and Excess Returns in ESG100 Stocks; Parichat Sinlapates and Thawaree Chinnasaeng Chapter 5. Personality Traits as Determinants of Facebook Behaviour: Study of Indian Gen-Z; Sudatta Banerjee, Swati Alok, Mousumi Singha Mahapatra, and Souri Banerjee Chapter 6. The Dynamic Relationship Between the Services Trade Sector and Economic Growth in the Lao People's Democratic Republic; Soukavong Bounthone and Kyophilavong Phouphet Chapter 7. Predictive Blend: Fundamental Indexing with Markowitz Mean Variance Portfolio in Indonesia Stock Exchange; Taufik Faturohman and David Christian Chapter 8. Financial Literacy of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises: Empirical Study During the Pandemic Period; Marcellia Susan, Jacinta Winarto, and Ika Gunawan Chapter 9. Personnel Management in the Context of New Forms of Diffusion of Innovations; Mikhailov Fedor Borisovich, Miasnikov Dmitrii Alekseevich, and Fakhrutdinov Bulat Ildarovich Chapter 10. Impact of Non-Tariff Measures of the People’s Republic of China on the Export of Agricultural Products of Lao People’s Democratic Republic; Vadsana Chanthanasinh and Piya Wongpit Chapter 11. Financial Distress and Financial Performance Analysis of Highway Companies Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Indonesia Stock Exchange; Ari Prasetyo and Taufik Faturohman Chapter 12. Credit Risk Scoring Model for Consumer Financing: Logistic Regression Method; Isti Yuli Ismawati and Taufik Faturohman Chapter 13. The Effects of Investment Amount in Investment Activity Report (Laporan Kegiatan Penanaman Modal/LKPM) on Employment in West Java Province; Tresna Puspitadewi and Taufik Faturohman Chapter 14. Influence of Bank Loans on Listed Company Performance: Evidence from China; Zaoxing Hu and Jianing Zhang Chapter 15. The Relationship Between Capital Structure and Performance of Real Estate Companies in China; Yitao Jiang and Jianing Zhang