Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to employ a unique data sample to study the relationship between risk and the … decomposed into systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk in order to examine whether cross-sectional variations in REITs’ risk are … related to use of TRS. The relation between REITs risk and REITs liquidity is also explored in this paper by using three …

. Explains how the portfolios were derived on a rolling basis from the previous 30 months’ data, using four risk levels for the … optimized portfolios (OPs). Shows that as risk aversion increases for OPs, minimum returns tend to decrease but average returns …, concludes that diversification is important even when small numbers of stocks are involved; and suggests some avenues for …

related to the diversification of their activities and whether CSR, as a result, affects banks’ risk profile. Design … analysis to examine the links between CSR and activity diversification and risk-taking. It also conducts a mediation test to … determine whether CSR affects risk through its influence on banks’ activity diversification. Findings The results of this study …

nature of the hotel industry. To evaluate these strategies profitability or return must be assessed, together with management … performance or efficiency, in the context of the level of risk to which the investment is subjected. Provides a two‐step matrix …

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the risk and return trade‐off in the film industry, and to explain the managerial …

. The level of risk, the growth and the profitability, characteristics that we consider very important in order to determine …

Reviews recent trends and developments in the use of Information Technology in the banking environment. Considers the …

developing and maintaining customer profitability information based on the capture and storage of individual transactions. This … paper describes the development of such a model to calculate customer profitability, by putting into place systems which …

and compared with the conventional trend of banking. Design/methodology/approach – Profitability of two‐streams of banking …Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance of conventional and Islamic paradigms of banking … through profitability. Profitability of conventional and Islamic banks is compared through four authentic methods of ratio …

Purpose – ASEAN region has emerged as a major hotspot for banking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Asia. This paper … identify the determinants of acquisitions in the ASEAN banking industry. Furthermore, the paper examines the ex ante bank … higher growth and greater profitability are more likely to engage in acquisitions as acquiring banks rather than as acquired …