This paper attempts to investigate the effects of the internal corporate governance mechanisms represented in (the size of the board of directors, CEO duality, the administrative ownership, and the ownership of Block Shareholders Ownership) on the profitability of the companies listed on the...

This paper investigates investment behavior across public and privately held firms using a novel firm-level dataset. We use coarsened exact matching to construct a control group of firms with which we compare listed firms before and after listing in a difference-in-differences framework. The...

This paper aims to explore the effect of the Algiers Stock Exchange listing on real earnings management. The study included 14 non-financial non-listed companies during the period 2015-2019 and six non-financial listed companies during the period 2010-2019. Due to the small number of companies...

This study examines the abnormal returns of Chinese firms cross-listed on both mainland (A-share) and Hong Kong (H-share) stock markets. The results show that the abnormal returns are larger for the existing H-shares cross-listing back as A-shares in the mainland market (H-to-A listings) than...

The study examined the unclaimed dividend and market value of listed firms in Nigerian stock exchange using data covering the period 2010 to 2019. Thus, the data gathered were analyzed using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller of unit root test for the stationarity of the data and autoregressive...

While research on stock listing is abundant, little evidence is obtained for banks that are usually excluded from the research sample, especially for the ones from emerging markets. This paper examines the operating performance of Chinese banks surrounding the stock listing. The results show...