Purpose - This paper investigates whether the macroeconomic factors affect the firm stock returns volatility differently depending on their location in different sectors. For this purpose, daily financial time-series data for 683 firms located in nine US sectors for the period of 2000 to 2017...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of capital structure using a dataset of firms in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: This paper carries out a panel data analysis of 8,270 observations from 827 listed non-financial firms on the Malaysia stock market over the...

This paper examines the stock market impact of announcements of corporate bond rating revisions for companies in the United Kingdom (UK) and in Australia. Investigating the market reaction to bond rating changes by Moody's and Standard & Poor's, our findings reveal similar results for downgrade...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the association of behavioral biases like overconfidence bias and self-attribution bias, and information acquisition with individual investors decisions. This study also extends its contributions in understanding the role of information...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the association of behavioral biases like overconfidence bias and self-attribution bias, and information acquisition with individual investors decisions. This study also extends its contributions in understanding the role of information...