Purpose: the paper aims at examining the existence of herding behaviour in two opposite market condition: bullish and bearish. Design/method/approach: Christie and Huang (1995) and Chang et al. (2000) Methods are used in the study. The sample includes daily and monthly data of listed companies...

The objective of this paper is to (a) present an empirical evidence that explains bank internal financial ratios that influence capital adequacy ratio, (b) stress testing the impact of Basel III capital adequacy requirements on Egyptian banks, and (c) offer a road map, through a sensitivity...

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...

This paper examines three possible explanations for firm growth: (1) a firm grows according to the growth of sales revenue, (2) a firm grows according to cost savings, and (3) a firm grows according to the two factors simultaneously; that is, increasing sales by saving costs. This paper uses...

This paper develops a model to quantify the major aspects of the privatized public enterprise transitional performance. The paper expands the literature on corporate performance to address the various factors that should be taken into account for monitoring the performance of the public...

This paper focuses on the factors that affect location decisions of multinational firms in the French regions in terms of the type of organizational structure and location characteristics. The objective is to examine the significance of the factors that affect firms’ choice of location and the...

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...