This paper investigates banks' corporate social responsibility. The credit market is composed of two sectors: one for standard and one for ethical projects. Since ethical banks are committed to investing in ethical projects, standard and ethical banks compete in the market for ethical projects....

In this paper we consider N-phased investment opportunities where the time evolution of the project value follows a jump-diffusion process. An explicit valuation formula is derived under two different scenarios: in the first case we consider fixed and certain investment costs and in the second...

This paper elaborates whether women bringing their diversity, cross-cultural awareness and transformational leadership skills to corporate boards offer strategic advantages for firms. In the analysis the effect of women in the board room on innovation activity and corporate firm performance as...

Project(s) to succeed four key factors are important; they are manpower, finance, material and time. The finance is an essential component than the rest and the key role played by the finance department is critical for project completion success. The project manager ensures that the project...

Our paper investigates the nexus between the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and the market leverage of firms listed on the US stock market. Analyzing the yearly database of non-financial US firms from 2000 to 2019, we find that an increase in the VIX index has a positive impact on the leverage of...

This paper employs generalized methods of moment (GMM) to analyze the enterprise data set collected from the General Statistics Office in the period 2005-2018 to provide insight on the influence of financial development on business growth: the case of the Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ). The...

The study examined the relationship between firm life cycle (FLC) and earnings management (EM) in the Vietnamese context with the moderating role of state ownership (SOE). We used the sample of 622 Vietnamese listed companies over the period 2010-2019. To eliminate autocorrelation and...