The primary aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive measure of corporate reputation and examine the impact of corporate governance on the reputation of listed financial firms in the countries of MENA region. Using a sample of 96 financial companies listed on the stock exchanges of four...

The increasing number of zombies is becoming a thread for industrial growth due to their inefficiency and lack of performance. Previous studies show that zombies inhibit the growth of non-zombies and prevent the emergence of new ones. However, there is still a lack of research on the...

This study uses the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) developed by the World Bank to examine a cross-country corporate governance spillover effect among the G7, BRICS, and GIIPS countries during the period of 1996-2014. The panel unit root tests show stationary panel time series properties...

Previous research separately investigated the relationship between competence of the village official, organizational commitment, leadership, internal control, external pressure, and accountability with village official research objects and only looked at how village officials carried out their...

Green bonds, as one of the main tools of green finance, have become an important choice of enterprises in green industries. Therefore, it has become an important theoretical and practical hot topic whether to select and what factors affect a choice to issue labeled green bonds for enterprises...

The construction of an internal rating model is the main task for the bank in the framework of the IRB-foundation approach the fact that it is necessary to determine the probability of default by rating class. As a result, several statistical approaches can be used, such as logistic regression...

This study aims to analyze the role of an independent audit committee on the relationship between the Risk Management Committee (RMC) and audit fees. We use 510 observations from 216 different companies indexed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for 2014-2016. This study uses ordinary least square...

The observation of firms' political connections (PCs) in both types of ascribed and acquired PCs has raised the question of their benefits to firms' operation. Based on 1,365 Vietnamese listed firm-year observations from 2010 to 2014, we find that although firms with both ascribed and acquired...

Intellectual capital (IC) has been widely recognized as an important resource in creating value and competitive advantage for companies. This study therefore examined the effect of corporate governance on intellectual capital disclosure and market capitalization through the use of the companies...

Systemic risk is of concern for economic welfare as systemic financial crisis has the potential to inefficiently lower the supply of credit to the nonfinancial sector. Conventional systemic risk measures are parsimonious in nature and are used to assess the current systemic risk contributions of...