This research empirically investigates the long and short run causal relationships between economic growth, financial depth and lending rate in the unique economic setup of Saudi Arabia where 92% of total GDP comes from oil exports. Study uses two proxies for financial depth namely liquid...

This study makes an endeavor to examine the existence of linkages between Saudi Stock Market Index (TASI) and the bigwig stock markets indices, namely, US, UK, Japan and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Data are culled and collated on a weekly basis commencing from 01/07/2004 to 31/12/2008 for...

The aim of this empirical study is to analyse the impact of Corporate Governance on Capital Structure Decisions in Saudi Arabian commercial banking sector. The components of corporate governance whose impact has been analysed on the capital structure are board size, independence of directors,...