This study was conducted to investigate the determinants of bank’s stability in an emerging country. Data were collected from the commercial banks listed on Vietnam’s Stock Exchanges over the years from 2010 to 2018. Further, the generalized method of moments (GMM) regression technique to...

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...

This paper investigates the impact of firm leverage on its investment activities. Especially, the research is conducted in the context of the Vietnamese emerging market, an incomplete market in South East Asia with the existence of inefficient market problems such as information asymmetry and...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the non-linear relationship between working capital management (WCM) and firm profitability (FP). As well as checking whether there is a financial leverage threshold in the decision on working capital, thereby assessing the change in the impact of...

This study investigates the association between institutional investors’ ownership and sell-side analysts’ stock recommendations in the context of the heterogeneous nature of institutional investors. Based on a sample of 281 Malaysian public listed companies over the period 2008-2013 (732...

In this bibliometric analysis, the study explores the evolution of internal auditing and its transformation from a basic financial oversight function to a critical entity that manages various aspects of organizational culture, IT challenges, risk management and more. The study emphasizes the...

Textual attribute integrated reporting refers to the difficulty level of readability and word length (narrative) of the information disclosed. The conciseness of information requires minimizing the length of words (narrative), offset by the increased readability of the integrated reporting. A...

Previous studies show that, in common-law countries, the explanatory power of stock returns is higher using cash flows than earnings and accruals, while the opposite is true in code-law countries. Moreover, the literature has shown the existence of a country-specific effect motivated by...

This study, which analysed the profitability of 42 reinsurers in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1991 to 2020, revealed that various factors such as gross domestic product, competition (HHI), premium growth, investment performance, underwriting risk, and operational efficiency affect the profitability...

Truthfulness in accounting creates a significant concern for academics, practitioners, regulators, and the press. This study investigates the influence of the Board of Directors (BOD) characteristics on the truthfulness of accounting reports. The research uses quantitative methods to test...