The European post-communist countries that have integrated into the European Union are emerging market economies. However, their short-run economic performance does not correspond to the observed business cycles of other global emerging markets. The business cycles of the studied countries are...

Fintech innovations - innovations by financial services providers based on digital technology - are widely believed to have a disruptive effect on the financial services industry. The purpose of the paper is to investigate how financial services industry participants perceive the effect of...

Anecdotal evidence showed that the portion of internet users to the population in Malaysia is relatively higher among developing economies. However, there are not many Malaysian listed companies that use the internet as a platform for financial information disclosure. Perhaps, the managers do...

Financial performance is an important indicator in a company in measuring the level of viability of the company. This study aims to analyze the effect of CEO power (proxied by CEO ownership), and characteristics (CEO educational background and work experience) on firm performance as proxied by...

Board composition is central to the worldwide corporate governance reforms that have taken place in recent years. The strong emphasis on director independence and board leadership is now part of all corporate governance regimes, including the regimes which has been introduced in Malaysia. It is...

This empirical paper documents the relationship between the composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using newly...

Economic growth has traditionally been attributed to the accumulation of human and physical capital and the increased productivity arising from technological innovation. The quest to attract physical capital led to the design and implementation of policies and the building of institutions by...

E-government involves the application of the latest innovations while providing the provision of efficient services in the government's management systems. Whereas, ease of doing business is an index by World Bank that shows the easiness of doing business in particular country. These two...

This study investigates the effect of the financial development index (FD) on foreign direct investment inflows (FDI) in Vietnam from 1996 to 2021. Time series data are used in the model to assess the influence of six indicators standing for FD. Financial institution assessment (FA), financial...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of foreign direct investment in the agriculture sec tor on food security in developing countries during 2012-2017 using control variables such as rural population, GDP per capita, consumer price index, food import, and food export. This...