International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 16 Issue 2

Timing the market with own stock: an extensive analysis with buying and selling evidence

Dinis Daniel Santos, Paulo Gama

Are firms able to time the market? The purpose of this paper is to focus on the study of own stock trading, emphasizing both repurchase and resell operations on the open market as…

Audit quality and real earnings management: evidence from the UK manufacturing sector

R.P. Sitanggang, Yusuf Karbhari, Bolaji Tunde Matemilola, M. Ariff

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether audit quality is associated with real earnings management in the UK.

Why discontinue operations? Interrelated elements of the corporate focus hypothesis

Richard A. Lord, Yoshie Saito

The purpose of this paper is to reexamine the corporate focus hypothesis to establish the characteristics of firms that discontinue operations. The authors concentrate on four…

Profits, financial leverage and corporate governance

Umar Butt

The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of governance structures in defining the relationship between profits and leverage.

Determinants of bank shareholder value: evidence from GCC countries

Abdulazeez Y.H. Saif-Alyousfi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of bank specific, financial structure and macroeconomic factors on the shareholder value of banks in GCC economies during…

Impact of ownership structure and ownership concentration on credit risk of Chinese commercial banks

Yang Liu, Sanjukta Brahma, Agyenim Boateng

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of bank ownership structure and ownership concentration on credit risk.

Bank mergers and acquisitions in Greece: the financial crisis and its effect on shareholder wealth

Ioannis Tampakoudis, Michail Nerantzidis, Demetres Subeniotis, Apostolos Soutsas, Nikolaos Kiosses

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the wealth implications of bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the unique Greek setting given the triple crisis phenomenon