15 articles in this issue
Emrah Bese,Haven Swint Friday
This is the first study in the single country studies that analyze the relationship between life expectancy, short-term external debt, and long-term external debt for Turkey for the period from 1974 to 2017. This study analyzed the direct effect of long-t... see more
Hilmi Hilmi,Wahyudin Zarkasyi,Memed Sueb,Nanny Dewi Tanzil
The purpose of this study is to examine how the influence of corporate social responsibility performance on corporate financial performance which is measured by the concept of 3P (Profit, People, Planet) seen from the company's sustainability report while... see more
Angélique Neema Ciza,Rhys Manners,Marc Schut,Stany Vwima Ngezirabona,Philippe Lebailly
Despite repeated wars and the persistence of feudal land tenure, the agricultural sector is at the center of economic activity for most rural households in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This study aims to assess the competitivity of the agricultural s... see more
Loc Dong Truong,H. Swint Friday
This analysis investigates the influence of the timing of the Lunar New Year on the January effect for the Vietnam stock market. The data selected for this study is a weekly series of the market index (VN-Index) over the period from January 7th, 2009 thro... see more
Abdullahi Osman Ali
The main aim of this investigation was to model the volatility of Somali shilling against US dollar by using monthly data covering from 1950 to 2010. Further to that, this finding has adopted both symmetric and asymmetric generalized autoregressive condit... see more
Yarong Chen,Luca Sensini,Maria Vazquez
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between leverage and its main determinants in the Argentine context, using the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory. Studies that have addressed this issue in emerging economies are sti... see more
Sulieman Daood Aloshaibat
This paper aimed to demonstrate the effect of financial leverage measured through the liability-to-equity ratio on financial performance measured by the return on equity and the return on assets (ROA) in Jordanian public shareholding financial companies l... see more
Sakiru Adebola Solarin
Despite the efforts of various federal and regional governments over the years, poverty still exists in several places across the world, especially in the developing countries. Microfinance services have been promoted as viable tools to decrease poverty. ... see more
Salem Alshihab
This study investigates the impact of certain macroeconomic determinants on stock market returns in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Those macroeconomic factors are: interest rates, oil prices, exchange rates, and money supply. Those factors were empir... see more
Md. Tahidur Rahman,Syed Zabid Hossain,Md. Anwarul Haque
This study intended to explore when and how often fixed asset revaluation (FAR) is practiced in Bangladesh and explain the impacts of FAR on net asset value (NAV), stock prices, and debts of companies. Based on 175 listed companies on the Dhaka Stock Exch... see more
Dirar Abdulhameed Altoum Alotaibi,Salah Mahdi Jawad Al-Kawaz,Ali Abdulhassan Abbas
The current research aims to study the importance of applying lean accounting technology with its important tools such as (value stream, points box, continuous improvement) and pointing to the role of correct behaviors by the decision maker that helps in ... see more
Francesco Carlier
This paper is devoted to research the validity of options strategies with a particular emphasis on weekly options. The author proves that options, when traded successfully, could be a better substitute than buying or selling the underlying and that option... see more
Amjad Ali,Marc Audi,Chan Bibi,Yannick Roussel
This study has investigated the impact of gender inequality and environmental degradation on human well-being in the case of Pakistan from 1980 to 2019. Augmented Dickey-Fuller unit root test is used for stationarity of the variables. The Autoregressive D... see more
Abdul Mahidud Khan,Sakib Bin Amin,Adib Ahmed,Tanzila Sultana
We examine the long-run relationship between tourism development and economic growth using the Nonlinear Autoregressive Distributed Lag (NARDL) model for Bangladesh using annual data from 1980-2016. We find an asymmetric relationship between tourism and B... see more
Abu Bakarr Tarawalie,Talatu Jalloh
The objective of this paper is to investigate the determinants of capital flight in Sierra Leone and the direction of causality between capital flight and key variables, within the context of the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) estimation technique ... see more