We employ low-frequency data to estimate historical volatility measures for Hong Kong stocks and examine the relationship between these measures and the one-month ahead stock return over thirty-five years. First, we employ a stock's past three-year weekly return to compute idiosyncratic...

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...

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...

Accessibility to loans for house purchases in urban China is problematic. Continuing governmental efforts to control rising house prices has affected consumers' ability to find funding, with different consequences for the various buyer segments of the population. These result from differences in...

In order to align executives' interests with shareholders' interests, board of directors has rewarded executives with more option-based payments in the past decades. However, as volatility of share return increases, CEOs are more risk averse because their human capital and wealth are...

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,...