This paper discusses the determinants of strategic transparency and its importance to the East Asian firms. Firm's strategic transparency is closely associated with firm's relative market position and the degree of competitiveness it can achieve. Accordingly, the governance structure is fairly...

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...

The objective of this study is to examine the relative importance of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors to bank profitability in the MENA and EU regions. The panel data cover the years 2006-2012 for 945 commercial banks. The discriminant analysis is used for estimating Z-scores that...

How can a government help secure low-cost equity financing? This study offers an answer that a government can secure sustainable economic progress when policies of economic freedom are well institutionalized in a way that results in low equity volatility, thus low-cost equity financing. This...