Purpose – This study has two main objectives: (a) to examine the financial aspects of high versus low ranked firms in the Corporate Responsibility Index in Egypt, and (b) to construct a Z score model to discriminate between high and low ranked firms in the Corporate Responsibility...

The objective of this study is to examine the relative importance of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors to bank profitability in the MENA and EU regions. The panel data cover the years 2006-2012 for 945 commercial banks. The discriminant analysis is used for estimating Z-scores that...

How can a government help secure low-cost equity financing? This study offers an answer that a government can secure sustainable economic progress when policies of economic freedom are well institutionalized in a way that results in low equity volatility, thus low-cost equity financing. This...