26 articles in this issue
Togi Parulian Purba
Problems which have been elaborated to relate to phenomenon less optimal its make-up of PAD (Original Region Revenue) where tending to because the happening of degradation of trust of investor society at Local Government so that have implication to compli... see more
Mustaruddin Mustaruddin,Aristya Dinata,Wendy Wendy,Anwar Azazi
This study is aimed to scrutinize the impact of asymmetric information on capital structure in Indonesia by taken the sample from firms listed in IDX with total of 225 observations. The capital structure is measured by Leverage (LEV) and the asymmet... see more
Osama Omar Jaara,Bassam Omar Jaara,Jamal Shamieh,Usama Adnan Fendi
This research aims to identify the factors influencing the ability of Islamic Banks (IB) and Conventional Banks (CB) to manage liquidity risk; determine the effects of the global financial crisis on Islamic and conventional banks, and propose some mechani... see more
Ejaz Gul
Woman has been the crucial socio-economic sufferer especially those living in the rural areas of developing countries. It has been established through extensive research that women represent the major percentage of poor on the global landscape. Why it is ... see more
Aye Aye Khin,Wong Hong Chau,Ung Leng Yean,Ooi Chee Keong,Raymond Ling Leh Bin
There are two objectives of this study, first, it is to determine the impact of exchange rate volatility on Malaysian natural rubber (NR) prices of (SMR20 and RSS4); second, it is to forecast a short-term exchange rate (ERP) of Malaysian Ringgit (RM per U... see more
Matteo Rossi,Serena Galasso,Arturo Capasso
The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of gender diversity on the financial performance of Italian listed companies. A cross-sectional regression used about the data of the year 2016 of Italian listed firms. The study is a mix of descriptive and e... see more
Wahyudi Setia Darma,Fithra Faisal Hastiadi
This research is aimed at analyzing the effect of trade creation and trade diversion which occurs on the establishment of such cooperation for theexport of Indonesian food and beverage industry products with trading partners either with its members or non... see more
Akbar Salami,Ahmad Aslizadeh,Mohammad Reza Asgari
The aim of this research is to determine the effect of management overconfidence and government interference on co-financing decision. This research in terms of the aim is applicable and in terms of the nature, it is descriptive-correlation. In order to t... see more
Yi-Chi Tsai,Cheng-Yih Hong
The financial tsunami is a crisis that happened in 2007. It broke out in the United States, and then spread to the whole world. Taiwanese economy exhibited a negative growth of 7.53%, and the fluctuation is manifest in Taiwan stock index. It has been even... see more
Mohammed Fawzi Alhaija
The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of information disclosure such as changing the auditor on evaluating the inspected company in the capital market. This article covers cases where the auditor changes during the period without going thr... see more
Mohammad Ali Shariat,Soleyman Iranzadeh,Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh
Attenuation of natural resources, climate changes, environmental pollution, ecological incompatibility of industrial activities with the environment, and decrease in quality of human's life due to the acceleration of global industrialization are critical ... see more
Margaret Mashizha,Mabutho Sibanda
This paper reports on the findings from a survey which was conducted examine the level of utilization of financial products by SMEs and its linkage with financial knowledge among SMEs in Zimbabwe. The study was conducted following a realization that a sig... see more
Rong Xu,Xingye Li
What investors often wish to insure is that the maximum possible loss of their portfolios falling below a certain value. Namely, the maximum possible loss that a portfolio will lose under normal market fluctuations, with a given confidence level, over a c... see more
Abdol Majid Saadat Nezhad,Tahmoures Sohrabi,Nasrollah Shadnoosh,Abbas Toloie Eshlaghy
While science and technology parks and towns and development centres have been established before 2002 in Iran and their number have been continually increased, there has been only a seminar presented by Mr Abdeh Tabrizi, the late Secretary General of Teh... see more
Chaido Dritsaki
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Songül Kakilli Acaravci,Yunus Karaomer
The aim of this study is to test the validity of the Fama-French Five Factor Model (FF5F) in Borsa Istanbul (BIST) during the 132-month period between July 2005 and June 2016. Therefore, the excess returns of 14 different intersection portfolios construct... see more
Abhay S. Nagale
It is generally believed that state owned enterprises are less profitable and efficient compared to private owned enterprises (POE). The objective of this study is to examine whether there is any difference in the profitability and efficiency of India’s s... see more
Ali Acaravci,Sinan Erdogan
This study explores the long-run relationship between institutional structure and economic growth for selected countries for 1993-2012 period by using dynamic panel data analysis. The results can be summarized as follows: i) There exists a cross-sectional... see more
Marzieh Khosheghbal,Ali Amiri,Ali Homayoon
The purpose of this study was to examine role of audit committees and board of directors in reducing earning management of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, audit committees and board of directors were selected as independent va... see more
Muntasir Mamun Iqbal,Abdul Mumit
The paper examines the spillover benefits of foreign direct investment (FDI) in relation to their contribution to economic growth, by utilizing a cross-country panel framework over the last four decades. The findings suggest that only when the host countr... see more
Igor Velickovski,Aleksandar Stojkov,Ivana Rajkovic
This paper investigates the drivers of shock synchronization using quarterly data for 27 European countries over the period 1999–2013 and taking into account the difference between core and peripheral euro area and European transition countries. The resul... see more
Carmelo Intrisano,Anna Paola Micheli,Anna Maria Calce,Loris Di Nallo
This paper aims to propose a new model for estimating companies benchmarking. The model has been applied to the media sector (identified by Industry Classification Benchmark – ICB with the code 5500 and composed by three subsector with codes: 5553 – Broad... see more
Mounira Chniguir,Mohamed Karim Kefi,Jamel Eddine Henchiri
The objective of this paper is to measure the degree of Home Bias within holdings portfolio and to identify their determining factors. By following literature and an international CAPM, we have chosen quite a number of susceptible factors that impact Home... see more
Meriem Miri,El Hassan Taacha,Mohamed Ayman Benatia
This article focuses on the effects of fiscal decentralization on economic growth in Morocco, taking into account three dimensions: expenditure decentralization, revenue decentralization and the composite of these two indices. It uses a co-integration pan... see more
Felipe Bugueño,Ignacio De Los Ríos,Rodrigo Castañeda
Responsible land governance can contribute to achieve social development, decreasing poverty and famine and reach an inclusive economic development. Agroforestry system comprises a wide range of stakeholders and diverse social, political, economic and nat... see more
Mondher Kouki,Rym Belhadj,Monia Chikhaoui
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of banking, monetary, and twin crises on the economic growth of a sample of 28 emerging and developed countries over the period 1980-2011. By considering a comparative analysis of the impact of the three ... see more