Investor sentiment is an important aspect of behavioural finance, which provides explanation of anomalies to the asset's intrinsic values. Sentiments can easily affect individual investors. Historically, Australia is regarded as rich in resources but poor in capital, and this motivates the paper...

This paper examines the cost efficiency of producing banking service and profit of banks in 11 Asia-Pacific countries namely Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and The Philippines. The selected countries are represented by the 3...

Investor sentiment is an important aspect of behavioural finance, which provides explanation of anomalies to the asset’s intrinsic values. Sentiments can easily affect individual investors. Historically, Australia is regarded as rich in resources but poor in capital, and this motivates the...

This paper investigates the effect of the human capital of directors on the financial performance of Vietnamese-listed companies. The dynamic system generalised method of moments (system GMM) estimator is used to examine a panel data-set consisting of 315 firm-year observations over a four-year...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to answer the increasing calls to analyse how lending relationship between banks and their small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) work. More precisely, the main aim is to investigate the lending approach(es) and criteria used by banks to assess loan...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to critically evaluate the institutionalisation of International Public Sector Accounting Standards in Indonesia. Design/methodology/approach: This case study approach relies on obtaining its data from document sources and interviews with relevant people and/or...

Purpose: Small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) capital structure and financial policies are important areas of policy concern. Only a limited number of studies on capital structure have, however, been conducted on SMEs, and this deficiency is particularly evident when investigating what...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate small and medium enterprises’ (SMEs) owner–managers’ awareness, willingness and perceptions concerning Islamic financing instruments as an alternative sourcing decision in SMEs’ businesses. Design/methodology/approach: The research employed mixed...