Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of increased fund commitments on portfolio size and subsequent effects on portfolio success rates. This paper empirically analyzes the changes in average portfolio size over a 20-year time period and how these changes affect the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of increased fund commitments on portfolio size and subsequent effects on portfolio success rates. This paper empirically analyzes the changes in average portfolio size over a 20-year time period and how these changes affect the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate technical and scales efficiencies of MFIs in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in provision of financial services. This study also aims at tracing the source of inefficiencies. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses the...

This paper investigates herding behavior in the US residential housing market. The sample period is 1975M01 to 2015M06. The study utilizes the housing price index of each of the 50 states and Washington DC to form nine census region-based markets, or portfolios and then employs switching and...

This paper hypothesized that there is a differential response by agents to changes in sovereign credit risk in both calm (low default risk) and turbulent (high default risk) markets. These market conditions create two different states of the world or regimes. The two model regimes have been made...