Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the evidence for credit channel on the composition of corporate finance during tight and loose periods of monetary policy, using micro‐level data on Indian firms for 1995‐2007. Design/methodology/approach – Univariate tests as well as...

Purpose – Employing data on 14 major Indian states during 1973‐2004, this paper aims to investigate the hypothesis that economic growth is affected by financial outreach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs univariate tests as well as advanced panel regression techniques to...

Purpose The purpose of the study is to understand the importance of corporate governance reforms for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) country banks. To address this issue, the author combines the staggered timing of corporate governance reforms for banks across MENA countries with...

Purpose – Using data on Indian listed companies for 2005, the purpose of this paper is to examine how firm ownership relates to auditor choice. More specifically, the author tests several hypotheses about the links between firm ownership, auditor relationships and earnings management....

Purpose The relevance of economic freedom in influencing bank risk taking has not been adequately addressed in the literature. In this connection, employing bank-level data for 2000-2012, the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of economic freedom on risk taking by MENA banks....

Purpose – Privatization has been a widely researched topic in the literature, both at the cross-country level as well as at the level of individual countries. However, the issue of partial privatization – where an entity is publicly listed although the government remains the controlling...