Purpose: This paper aims to document the information transmission capacity of Shariah-compliant firms. Design/methodology/approach: The vector auto-regression (VAR) model is used to test the information transmission capacity of Shariah-compliant firms in India during the period between 2010 and...

Purpose: This paper documents the impact of product market competition on the value of advertising expenditures. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use the data for non-financial firms from India and the pooled regression procedure to test their arguments during the period between 2009...

Purpose: The paper answers the following questions: (1) Do firms located in rural areas experience greater problems in accessing financial services? (2) If this is the case, what can these firms do to improve their access to finance? Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses the pooled...