This paper empirically examines the price effects of monetary policy shocks in New Zealand. Empirical analysis incorporates variables suggested by a hybrid New Open Economy Macroeconomic (NOEM) model, allowing both ‘producer and local currency pricing to market (PCP and LCP-PTM)' activities of...

This study evaluates equity mutual fund performance in the Chinese mutual funds industry by employing Goetzmann and Ibbotson's (1994) method. The data set consists of all open-end equity mutual funds in China and is free of survivorship bias. The research period covers January 2002 to December...

The current study examines the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagement on corporate financial performance (CFP). Prior studies document a positive CSR-CFP association without considering the moderating effects of chief executive officer (CEO) characteristics such as...

This study uses the hot money, the World Bank and trade mis-invoicing methods to measure capital flights in Hong Kong. The study uses the OLS model to test the determinant of capital flights in Hong Kong and the round-tripping foreign direct investment model to estimate the round-tripping...

This study applied the Fama-French three-factor model (1993) and CAPM to examine A-shares in Chinese equity market from 1996 to 2005. The authors find a positive relation between book-to-market ratio and stock excess returns, and negative between size and stock excess returns. The results...

This research extends the study of Boscaljon and Ho and test the effect of market response to bank loan announcement in the Hong Kong banking market after the 1997 Asian crisis. The study also investigates whether bank is still ‘special' in the financial market by comparing the market response...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the determinants of default mortgage in China and the factors affecting the mortgage amount granted by Chinese banks. Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs the credit scoring model to investigate the determinants of default mortgage in...

A survey on derivative usage and financial risk management in New Zealand shows that the currency forward is the most frequently used derivatives in hedging transaction exposure. This paper examines whether forwards performs better than over-the-counter option for a New Zealand exporter in...

This study investigates the dynamic relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and firm performance (FP) through system generalized methods of moments, when previous studies produced divergent results based on static OLS or fixed-effects estimations. Based on 571 listed firms in Australia...

This study investigates the relationship between insider trading and managerial discretion in the context of the young and fast-growing stock market of Vietnam during the 2006-2017 period. Using alternative estimates of discretionary accruals quality (DACCR) as proxies for managerial discretion,...