Purpose: Economic risk plays a vital role in firm's cash holdings. We aim to determine the impact of economic risk on the firm's cash holdings. Design/methodology/approach: The data is collected from the DataStream from 2002 to 2018, which covers 552 listed firms in the manufacturing sector of...

Purpose: The authors examine the impact of asymmetric information on firm's financing decisions, the feedback effect of changes in capital structure on the level of asymmetric information, and the speed of adjustments in capital structure on its target leverage. ...

Purpose: Ownership structure deals with internal corporate governance mechanism, which plays important role in minimizing conflict of interests between shareholders and management Ownership structure is an important mechanism that influences the value of firm, financing and dividend decisions....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of diversification, corporate governance and capital regulations on bank risk-taking in Asian emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach: The authors applied the generalized method of moments to analyze a sample of 116 listed...

Purpose: The authors examine the impact of credit, liquidity and operational risks on the financial performance of commercial banks of South Asia. Design/methodology/approach: Data are extracted from DataStream of 76 commercial banks of four countries, i.e. Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri...