Under the internal model approach (IMA) stipulated by Basel II, financial institutions are allowed to develop and employ proprietary internal models to evaluate various risk. However, the flexibility to develop a proprietary model leads to the question of which computing method delivers the most...

This paper seeks to explain how failures in corporate governance contributed to the global financial crisis. More precisely, it studies how the current corporate governance systems failed to safeguard against aggressive risk taking and to provide the control that companies need in order to...

Using archival data, this paper presents the results of analyzing a sample of twelve primarily oil and gas, western Canadian energy firms and their use of financial derivatives to manage commodity price risk. The firms range in size from small to large based on total assets. All twelve companies...

This study examines the profit profile of firms in Nigeria and analyzes the impact of leverage on profitability for the period 1999-2007. The results show that aggregate profit level for the firms decreased by 0.02 percent yearly over the study period. However, when disaggregated into sectors, a...

Malaysia like many other Asian countries was affected by the 1997 Financial Crisis. During this Financial Crisis, many companies succumbed. Pomerleano (1998) found that leverage of the companies if unchecked can be detrimental to the health of the company. He concluded that excess leverage at...

This study examines the factors that lead to issuing negative opinions on semiannual reports while issuing positive opinions in annual reports from the perspective of auditor-client relationships in listed companies in Taiwan. The empirical results show that the importance of the client is...

This article modifies the intertemporal optimization model proposed by Bo and Sterken (2002) by considering firm debt composition to derive a more suitable physical investment function and evaluates how twin-rate(i.e., interest rate and exchange rate) uncertainty, derived from the issuance of...

This paper examines the market responses to four cash payout methods: regular dividend increases, special dividends, tender-offer repurchases and open market repurchases. We also investigate the reasons why firms choose one payout form over another. We use relative, and discounted relative,...

Noted economist, Harry Markowitz (Markowitz) received a Nobel Prize for his pioneering theoretical contributions to financial economics and corporate finance. His innovative work established the underpinnings for Modern Portfolio Theory—an investment framework for the selection and...

Using a sample of Taiwan firms over the period of 2001 to 2005, this study investigates the relationship between internationalization and a firm’s capital structure, measured by the leverage ratio. Univariate tests show that multinational corporations (MNCs) are significantly less...