The first paper studies the relationship between institutional ownership, board structure and earnings management, and in particular investigates whether board structure and activist institutional ownership as it is characterized in the literature have an impact on earnings management. For this,...

This article aims to develop an empirically-based classification of financial ratios for manufacturing firms and to examine whether or not these ratios can be used in differentiating sub-sectors of manufacturing industry. The article involves 160 manufacturing firms which are traded in the...

This paper analyses the dynamics of housing market in Turkey using a cointegration analysis. For this purpose a monthly survey is conducted for two years and a “buying index” is formed to measure the housing demand. The housing construction permits data is used to measure the housing supply....