The objective of this paper is to explore the stock markets integration between the US and the Asian stock markets during different US monetary policy stances. Our empirical findings tend to suggest that stock markets are highly integration during the periods of US's easy monetary policy stance....

This paper investigates the association between Hong Kong politically connected firms and their cost of debt. We extend the knowledge of this association by comparing our results with those of Bliss and Gul (2012) who used Malaysian data to examine it. We find that Hong Kong politically...

Purpose – This paper aims at highlighting the significance in developing non-financial risk management, emphasizing the need of managing environmental and social issues for enhancing corporate sustainability. Particularly, through discussing the implications of non-financial risk management,...

Information asymmetry increases the risks undertaken by venture capitalists. The present study departs from the tendency in earlier analyses to attribute the problem of information asymmetry to the entrepreneur only. In view of the obvious social benefits that the development of the venture...