This paper examines three possible explanations for firm growth: (1) a firm grows according to the growth of sales revenue, (2) a firm grows according to cost savings, and (3) a firm grows according to the two factors simultaneously; that is, increasing sales by saving costs. This paper uses...

This study examines the relationship between debt governance structure at three levels (high, medium and low) and firm's performance in the stock market. The debt structure classifies debt into short-term debt and long-term debt at each debt level. The results indicate that in the high debt...

The practice of capital structure decisions is dominated by three theories of capital structure; trade-off, pecking order, and free cash flow. None of the three theories presents a complete answer to the determinants of capital structure. This study utilizes the Bayesian quot;Stochastic Search...

This study examines the measurement of the market reaction (MB ratio is a proxy for shareholder value) to fundamental financial information. The issue of measuring the stock market reaction to fundamental information stems from the fact that there is a strong need to focus on those fundamentals...

Purpose: The main objective of this study is to examine whether firms follow the financing hierarchy as suggested by the Pecking Order Theory (hereinafter POT). The External Funds Needed (hereinafter EFN) Model offers a financing hierarchy that can be used for examining the POT. As far as the...

The uncertainty that surrounds oil and gas exploration environments call for an examination at different angles. In terms of robustness, the purpose of this paper is to focus on three performance measurements: the amount of exploration investments, the growth rate of exploration investments, and...

This study examines the financial and statistical properties of the variance and semi variance (SV). Since the mean-variance approach and its extended mean-semi variance approach assume normality of returns, it has been observed that practical and computational problems emerged in the cases of...

Purpose – This study has two main objectives: (a) to examine the financial aspects of high versus low ranked firms in the Corporate Responsibility Index in Egypt, and (b) to construct a Z score model to discriminate between high and low ranked firms in the Corporate Responsibility...