Purpose: This study aims to assess the effect of globalisation on governance in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011. Design/methodology/approach: Ten bundled and unbundled governance indicators and four globalisation variables are used. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of information asymmetry (between the realized return and the expected return) on market timing in the mutual fund industry. Design/methodology/approach: For the purpose, the authors use a panel of 1,488 active open-end mutual...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the importance of credit access in modulating governance for gender-inclusive education in 42 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with data spanning the period 2004–2014. Design/methodology/approach: The generalized method of moments is used as...