With an increasingly open economic condition in Thailand, insurance firms exposed to competition should improve efficiency to ensure their survival. This paper examines the cost efficiency and its relationship with profitability of life insurance firms: Cobb-Douglas stochastic cost frontier...

This paper re-examines the evidence on how the listing of options impacts on underlying stock’s volatility by taking into consideration the possible presence of a learning effect, along with the impact of the very endogenous nature of the options listing decision itself. Our analyses are...

Este documento de trabajo supone una contribución a la literatura reciente que documenta el aumento secular de los márgenes ponderados por las ventas en varios países. En Estados Unidos, este fenómeno ha sido impulsado por empresas grandes y productivas. Utilizando los datos detallados de la...

Artículo de revista ; This article analyses the cost of electricity for Spanish firms. This cost is compared with other expenditure by Spanish industrial firms on goods and services and with their turnover, distinguishing by firm size and sector. Generally, in the industrial sector, the ratio...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2033

This study aims to determine the influence of return on assets (ROA), debt to asset ratio (DAR), firm size (SIZE), the public shareholding (KSP) on the disclosure of corporate social responsibility, either simultaneously or partially on manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange....

The purpose of this study is to analyze and determine the effect of Cash Position, Debt to Equity Ratio, Return on Assets, Firm Size and Shareholder Dispersion significantly to the Dividend Payout Ratio on the Banking Industry and Manufacturing Industry is listed on Indonesia Stock Exchange.This...

The purposes of this research is to know the factors influence of social disclosure. The variables that tested are the common stock, leverage, firm size, and profitability. The research is on real estate and property company that listed on Indonesian Common Stock Exchange between 2008 and 2009....

This research has purposed to proof the influence of dividen per share in industry goods consumption on Indonesia Stock Exchange. This research contains of five variable, such as Current Ratio, Debt to Equity Ratio, Return On Asset, Firm Size, Earning Per Share. This research during 2006 to...