One of the important issues with regard to the relationship between M&As (mergers and acquisitions) and economic growth or stock prices is whether such activities can act as a predictor of these two variables' performance, or whether these variables have resulted in significant impacts on M&A...

This paper investigates the impact of corporate social responsibility activities on corporate performance. In view of the inconsistent empirical findings in the literature, and the limitations of least squares regressions, we adopt a quantile regression method to fill this gap in the literature....

This paper adopts quantile regression to investigate the impact of the 2008 financial crisis on housing prices at difference price levels in China and Taiwan, and employs data from the period July 2005–December 2010. According to the empirical results, the ordinary least squares estimates are...

This study examines the long-term, dynamic equilibrium relationship for strategy variables of firms in strategic groups by conducting a cointegration analysis. Replicating the Nair and Filer (Strateg. Manage. J., 24: 145–159, <CitationRef CitationID="CR28">2003</CitationRef>) methodology and extending it to four industries listed on the...</citationref>

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how global liquidity affects international housing prices. The data sample covers 35 economies from 2000Q1 to 2017Q4. Design/methodology/approach The existing papers seldom investigated whether the impacts of global liquidity on housing prices...

This study using Kónya (2006) [Kónya, L. (2006). Exports and growth: Granger causality analysis on OECD countries with a panel data approach. Economic Modelling 23, 978–992.] method of bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis, which considers the issues of cross-sectional dependency and...