This paper constructs new indicators of liquidity for equity, bond and money markets in major advanced and emerging market countries, documents their evolution and comovements, and assesses the extent to which such measures are determinants of selected spreads and proxy measures of countries'...

This paper builds a model of a sovereign borrower that has access to credit from private sector creditors and an IFI. Private sector creditors and the IFI offer different debt contracts that are modelled based on the institutional frameworks of these two types of debt. We analyze the decisions...

Purpose – This paper aims to empirically explore the underlying factors that may affect the extent to which forward‐looking information is disclosed. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a list of forward‐looking keywords to demonstrate the differences, if any, in the level of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the state of environmental reporting by Indian companies on their web sites and also in their annual reports. Design/methodology/approach – The web sites of the companies in the sample were visited to examine the accessibility and extent of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perceptions of auditor independence between auditors, bank‐loan officers, and financial analysts in Bahrain. Design/methodology/approach – This study examines the effect of 41 independence‐enhancing and – threatening Factors on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the board structure and process disclosure (henceforth BSPD) level on corporate performance, depending on the Anglophone vs Francophone business culture prevailing in African emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine the nexus between firm-specific attributes and a company’s decision to setup a separate risk management committee (RMC) as a sub-committee of the board within the context of an emerging economy, South Africa. Design/methodology/approach – The...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between audit committee (AC) and a set of other corporate governance mechanisms in one of the emerging economies, United Arab of Emirates (UAE). In particular, the current study examines whether an effective AC can serve as a...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate whether fees discounting exists in Malaysia and whether such a practice impairs auditor independence. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs a panel least regression of 3,003 firm‐year observations of firms listed on Bursa...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical assessment of the degree to which global firms have penetrated markets in emerging countries in the new millennium. The focus is on the “big four” emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC), and the study...