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Financial access and economic development: the moderating role of financial consumer protection
Maryam Kriese, Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Elikplimi AgbloyorThe purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating role of financial consumer protection (FCP) in the access–development nexus.
Funding structure and technical efficiency: A data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach for banks in Ghana
Daniel Ofori-Sasu, Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Lord MensahThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of funding structure on technical efficiency of banks in Ghana, between 2011 and 2016.
Financial inclusion and financial sector development in Sub-Saharan Africa: a panel VAR approach
Ebenezer Bugri Anarfo, Joshua Yindenaba Abor, Kofi Achampong Osei, Agyapomaa Gyeke-DakoThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the dynamic link between financial inclusion and financial sector development (FSD) in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Working capital financing, firm performance and financial constraints: Empirical evidence from India
Nufazil Altaf, Farooq AhmadThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between working capital financing and firm performance for a sample of 437 non-financial Indian companies. In addition…
Capital market development and bank efficiency: a cross-country analysis
Thanh Ngo, Tu LeThe purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the causal relationship between banking efficiency and capital market development in 86 countries between 2006 and 2011.
Corporate cash holding during crisis and beyond: what matters the most
Ranajee Ranajee, Rajesh PathakThe purpose of this paper is to examine the cash holding of firms during a crisis and test the widely accepted determinants of corporate cash holding (CCH) for their consistency…
New evidence on fund performance in extreme events
Fadillah Mansor, Naseem Al Rahahleh, M. Ishaq BhattiThe purpose of this paper is to compare the return performance and persistence of ethical and conventional mutual funds during two extreme events, the Asian and the global…
Is bitcoin a near stock? Linear and non-linear causal evidence from a price–volume relationship
Pradipta Kumar Sahoo, Dinabandhu Sethi, Debashis AcharyaThe purpose of this paper is to examine the price–volume relationship in the bitcoin market to validate near-stock properties of bitcoin.
Executive compensation of immigrant-founder firms in the USA
Chialing Hsieh, Vivek Pandey, Hongxia WangThe purpose of this paper is to examine CEO compensation in immigrant-founder firms vs CEO compensation in non-immigrant-founder firms.
Relationship between prestige signals and over-subscription ratio: Evidence from Malaysian initial public offerings
Ali Albada, Othman Yong, Soo-Wah LowThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether initial public offering (IPO) over-subscription is a function of firm’s prestige signals conveyed by third parties with…
Tax avoidance in management-owned firms: evidence from Brazil
Otávio Gomes Cabello, Luiz Eduardo Gaio, Christoph WatrinThe purpose of this paper is to test if companies with a greater concentration of management ownership (and thus more risk-averse managers) avoid less tax.
Stock price movements and trading behaviors around merger and acquisition announcements: Evidence from the Korean stock market
Jin Young Yang, Reuben Segara, Jingwei FengThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between price movements of target firms’ stocks and behaviors of local individual, local institutional and foreign…
Abnormally long audit report lags and future stock price crash risk: evidence from China
Ahsan Habib, Hedy Jiaying HuangAlthough a substantial body of literature investigates the determinants of audit report lag (ARL), scant empirical evidence exists on the consequences of ARL. The purpose of this…
CEO inside debt, market competition and corporate risk taking
Shahbaz SheikhThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of market competition on the relation between CEO inside debt and corporate risk-taking.
The early bird and the late bird: which catches more worms in Australia?
Nirodha Imali Jayawardena, Akihiro Omura, Bin LiThe purpose of this paper is to examine what the optimal time is in a typical trading day for investors to buy/sell stocks in the Australian stock market.
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