Purpose: To examine the impact of corporate governance on Cost of Capital (COC) and financial distress in the ASEAN countries. Design/methodology/approach: We compiled a list of the 50 largest publicly listed firms by market capitalization in each of the following five East Asian countries,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the default characteristics of Sukuk issues by corporate firms in Malaysia using value-at-risk (VaR) techniques over a period of 16 years from 2000 to 2015 and across nine economic sectors. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs...