Most studies on corporate governance recognize endogeneity in the nexus between corporate governance and financial performance. Little attention has, however, been paid to the direction of causality between the two phenomena, and hence the Vector Error Correction (VEC) model, which allows for...

Exposed for competing firms in the same industry or not, within the same area, has been shown to improve the efficiency of firms, on average. In this study, we assess whether agglomeration economies have a significant influence on firms' productivity in Cote d'Ivoire. Considering urbanization...

A model/hedging performance is relatively poorly covered in the literature. This is particularly valid for general portfolios including both vanilla and exotic instruments. Practitioners generally use so called \pnl explain which measures whether portfolio price movements can be explained by...

China restructured its state assets management system through the establishment of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) in 2003. In consequence, de facto ownership rights to local state-owned enterprises (lo-cal SOEs) were granted to local governments. Chinese...

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...

Numerous research papers have used Irish-only data to test for the presence of an investment gap for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, we use cross country firm-level survey data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys to explore the investment patterns of Irish SMEs in a...

This study aimed to examine the macroeconomic and firm-specific determinants of financial performance using 121 listed non-life insurance companies from 48 African countries for the period 2008–2019. Panel data of 1452 observations were examined using both ordinary least squares and two-step...

This article reviews the empirical literature combining economic and environmental performance data at the micro-level, i.e. firm- or facility-level. The literature has generally found a positive and statistically significant correlation between economic performance, as measured by stock market...

This paper examines the impact of firms' green investments on a range of performance outcomes including the growth of output, employment, productivity, export intensity, and energy intensity. The analysis uses firm-level data from Ireland's industry sector over the period 2008-2016. To identify...

Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do firms have additional moral or...