Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to highlight important factors that influence funding decisions from the perspective of commercial lenders, and suggest commercialization of microfinance as a source of alternative development finance. Design/methodology/approach - A survey of industry...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight important factors that influence funding decisions from the perspective of commercial lenders, and suggest commercialization of microfinance as a source of alternative development finance. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of industry...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm to harvest user specified information on finance portals and compile it into machine-readable datasets for quantitative analysis. Design/methodology/approach – The Visual Basic macro language in Microsoft Excel is applied to...

Purpose – Model estimation gives students insights beyond what they can gain from textbook presentations. This paper introduces a way to make doing this easier and more effective. It introduces the program Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library (GRETL) which may be downloaded...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an empirical procedure for examining the time-varying features of cross-market correlations in selected Gulf stock markets. Design/methodology/approach – The paper directly infers the cross-market linkages from the stock data using a...

Purpose – This paper seeks to investigate the accounting factors that affect the value of a firm. Design/methodology/approach – Cross-sectional analysis is employed to investigate the association between critical accounting ratios and stock returns. Findings – This study finds that the...

Purpose – Research has shown that firms successfully pursuing either a cost leadership or a differentiation strategy are better able to gain competitive advantages over other firms and accordingly achieve superior performance. Thus, if firms actually do realize superior performance based on...

Purpose -The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of stock markets in economic growth and to shed some light on the macroeconomic determinants which must have an important influence on stock markets development. Design/methodology/approach -The empirical study is conducted using an...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore dynamics of stock price movements of an emerging market, Bangladesh with that of USA, Japan and India. Design/methodology/approach -The long-term relationships among the markets are analyzed using the Johansen and Juselius multivariate...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the risk factors for A-shares listed on both Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchange in China using variables from Akgun and Gibson. Design/methodology/approach -The paper applies cross-sectional regression on the orthogonal components by...