This paper provides a comprehensive account of financial literacy among Saudi citizens. Responses to items about key aspects of financial literacy-i.e., budgeting, debt, saving, investment, and insurance-were elicited from a large sample of Saudi citizens through an online survey. The data from...

The purpose of this study is to review recent developments pertaining to risk management in Islamic banking and finance literature. The study explores the fundamental features of risks associated with Islamic banks (IBs) as compared to those associated with conventional banks (CBs) in order to...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the forecasting performance of linear and non-linear generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH)–class models in terms of their in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting accuracy for the Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) and the Tadawul...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the forecasting performance of linear and non-linear generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH)-class models in terms of their in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting accuracy for the Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) and the Tadawul...

The purpose of this study is to review recent developments pertaining to risk management in Islamic banking and finance literature. The study explores the fundamental features of risks associated with Islamic banks (IBs) as compared to those associated with conventional banks (CBs) in order to...

This paper provides a comprehensive account of financial literacy among Saudi citizens. Responses to items about key aspects of financial literacy-i.e., budgeting, debt, saving, investment, and insurance-were elicited from a large sample of Saudi citizens through an online survey. The data from...

The first chapter of this dissertation examines the returns to frequent acquirers from emerging markets and analyzes the cross-country variations in cumulative abnormal returns. The sample consists of 5,147 transactions carried out by firms from 17 common and civil-law countries during the...

In this paper, we investigate the effects of internal corporate governance on the length it takes to remove a CEO after the initial sign of poor firm performance. We find that firms that have a better quality of internal corporate governance are quicker to remove poor-performing CEOs. This...

What factors determine a firm's cash holdings has been a popular topic of research in finance, especially in light of surging cash holdings by US corporations in recent years. The bulk of such research has focused primarily on firm-specific factors occasionally sprinkled with macroeconomic...