We investigate corporate governance and risk in Indonesian banking. More specifically, we investigate whether ownership concentration and commissioners affect bank risk and profitability. Using a sample of 117 Indonesian banks (for ownership concentration analysis), and 28 public banks (for...

This paper aims to explore the role of financial literacy, risk preference, and home bias in Minangkabau ethnic SME financing decisions, and whether their financing pattern follow the pecking order theory. The theoretical framework model was developed to determine the impact of financial...

This study investigates the relationships between corporate governance variables and tunnelling activities in Indonesia. Using 2216 firm-year observations from 2005 to 2012, we find that several corporate governance variables contribute to explaining the phenomenon of tunnelling in Indonesia....

This paper aims to explore the role of financial literacy, risk preference, and home bias in Minangkabau ethnic SME financing decisions, and whether their financing pattern follow the pecking order theory. The theoretical framework model was developed to determine the impact of financial...

Purpose: This paper aims to compare the effect of ownership on firm performances in the 1997 and 2008 financial crises. More specifically, it investigates the effect of cash flow rights, control rights and cash flow rights leverage on firm performance. Two conditions motivated the study. First,...

This paper investigates relative trading performance of domestic vis-à-vis foreign investors in Indonesian market. We take advantage of unique data set in Indonesian market that codes foreign and domestic investors. We find that domestic investors outperform foreign investors in all...

Disposition effect is one phenomenon in behavioral finance that describes investor tendency to sell winner stocks too early and hold loser stocks too long. The purpose of this paper is to examine the disposition effect from investor perspective when they respond to short-run and long-run return...

We compare fixed price and book building methods in Indonesia stock market. We take advantage of unique setting in Indonesia market: companies do not have choice on their IPO method. We believe that this exogenous setting provides cleaner results, relatively free from endogenous related...