Are foreign investors in emerging markets more financial statement literate than domestic investors? If so, this conjecture implies that foreign (domestic) investors are more likely to revise their return expectations to cash flow (discount rate) news. It also implies that cash flow news and...

This study shows that auditors are more likely to charge higher audit fees, issue false-positive going concern opinions (i.e., Type I error), and resign from high asset redeployability (AR) firms. In supplemental tests, we use path analysis to show that the significant associations between AR...

In response to the limited engagement with critical social science concerning the governance of Islamic banking and finance (IBF), this paper examines the development and governance of IBF in Malaysia and Singapore through the entanglements of conventional ‘market-disciplinary rule regimes',...

Existing studies on financialisation have used Foucauldian governmentality to examine how everyday consumers, shaped by state initiatives and proliferation of financial products, are transforming into self-reliant subjects capable of seeking out financial knowledge and products for future...

While recent work on financialisation of everyday life has elucidated the reshaping of everyday consumers as risk-taking investors, the role of financial advisors (FAs) has been overlooked even though they are key intermediaries in articulating households and individuals into circuits of global...

Financial geography is concerned with the roles of finance, money and markets in the restructuring of contemporary capitalism, how these changes have uneven impacts across space. Studies focus on the ways in which space and place are mobilized in shaping financial decisions, allocation of...

Recent scandals involving large corporations including Amazon, Apple, Google, Starbucks and HSBC have highlighted the problems of tax avoidance, evasion and offshore financial activities. Considering their significance to growing inequality and financial instability, renewed media and public...

This chapter addresses the lacuna of research on the state within the financialization literature by focusing on state-firm relations to explain capitalist processes and formations. Set in the context of Singapore's banking restructuring in the late-1990s and early-2000s, we argue that what...