Research design is one of the cardinal tools for successful quantitative researches. However, there is the temptation to define terms rather than focusing on the key components of the research that must relate to the current study. This write-up presents an example of what research designs...

Singapore -a common law origin first world country has a built-in system of reasonably adequate investors' protection with high degree of security of property right. Consistent therewith the present paper empirically demonstrates that minority shareholders extract dividend from the firms as an...

The objective of this study was to investigate the causal relationship model of disclosure of corporate social responsibility information affecting the cost of capital of listed companies in the Stock Exchange of Thailand. This study focused on exploring CSR information disclosure through...

Capital intensity indicates how much money is invested to produce one rupee of sales revenue. Business tangible properties or tangible assets are real things that a company has such as buildings or equipment. Capital intensity and tangibility has the vital role in the firms' financial...

The results of several experimental studies, the notion that the most important source of income deemed to decision makers rely more profit than any other criteria, has been proved, however, it should be noted that as the main source of income, it may not reflect the actual performance of...

Using a large sample of 3,066 firm-year observations, representing 372 distinct firms listed on IDX during the period 1995-2012, we show that dividends are reliably positively priced by the capital market, violating thus the dividend displacement theorem. This result persists even after...

This paper examines the relationship between earnings and its components with stock returns emphasizing on the earnings quality of listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE). In order to do this, a sample of 230 listed firms in Tehran Stock Exchange was selected over a seven-year period (2003...

According to the signaling theory, dividend announcements are usually considered as a signal to the investors, about firm's future performance, that results in stock prices changes. This study attempts to investigate the stock prices response to dividend announcement in the Damascus Securities...

From 1963 through 2015, idiosyncratic risk (IR) is high when market risk (MR) is high. We show that the positive relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the...

Governance depends on both country-level as well as firm-level mechanisms. The country-level governance mechanisms include a country's laws, its culture and norms, and the institutions that enforce the laws. Firm level or internal governance mechanisms are those that operate within the firm....