This paper investigates the impact of legal tradition and firm size on investment performance for firms in 16 European countries. Europe as a region is of special interest in this sense since the legal systems differs widely within a concentrated geographical area. Anglo Saxon, German, French as...

Almost all studies on research and development (R&D) activity are based on US and British companies, and most of them show that this activity positively influences both stock returns and corporate value. This empirical study evaluates the effects of R&D on stock returns for a sample of listed...

This study estimated the quality of governance practiced by a significant sample of Brazilian publicly traded companies between 2002 and 2006, and related it to risk, performance and value. An index composed of twenty questions, with all answers in binary form, was constructed to measure the...

This study attempts to address the question whether earnings quality of Malaysian public listed firms is associated with performance. Five attributes of earnings quality namely predictive value, feedback value, timeliness, faithful representation and neutrality as well as two common financial...

There is a wide range of literature on the theory of firm growth with contradictory results. However, hardly any studies touch the determinants of firm growth taking Swiss listed firms into consideration. For this purpose we apply a pooled and fixed effects panel regression to a set of firm...

This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before...

The financing method of Chinese listed firms has been studied for a long time, but with inconclusive indications. This paper thus adopts Chinese listed firms' data from 2003 to 2015 to investigate the pecking order theory by testing the relationship between financing deficit and long-term debt...

This paper investigates the relation between accounting-based earnings quality attributes and the financial status of Chinese companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2005 to 2007 by classifying them as either ‘healthy' or ‘bankrupt' firms. We find that accruals...

This paper analyses the effects on unconditional conservatism of the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by Spanish listed companies in January 2005. The lack of robustness in the previous evidence justifies analysing this issue from different perspectives....