Intellectual Capital (IC) is recognized as the foundation of organizational success in the knowledge economy. In this respect, this study aims at investigating, empirically, the behavior of IC over the financial years 2000 to 2010. The study aims to explore changes in the level of IC, and to...

This paper examines the benefits of regionally and globally diversified portfolios from the perspective of investors holding domestic-only portfolios from different Asia-Pacific countries. Three groups of regional portfolio are constructed, with sorting based on relative strength ranking...

This study examines the behaviour of staple food price using Multivariate BEKK-GARCH Model. Understanding of staple food price behaviour is important for determining the unpredictability of staple food market and also for policy making. In this paper, we focus on the commodity prices of sugar,...

Southeast Asia has experienced an economic growth since the 1980s. The growth triggered by reforms to increasing global and regional integration has been remarkable. Therefore, this paper aims to examine whether regional integration promotes economic growth in Southeast Asia. This paper further...

Most of the tests for symmetry are developed under the (implicit or explicit) null hypothesis of normal distribution. As is well known, many financial data exhibit fat tails, and therefore commonly used tests for symmetry (such as the standard b test based on sample skewness) are not valid for...

The unusual severity of the recent global financial crisis has drawn much attention to systemic risk, particularly its measurement, and the institutions that contribute most to it. This paper provides an empirical examination of the systemic risk potential among banking institutions in Asia...

This paper examines the benefits of regionally and globally diversified portfolios from the perspective of investors holding domestic-only portfolios from different Asia-Pacific countries. Three groups of regional portfolio are constructed, with sorting based on relative strength ranking...

The bitter experience of the subprime crisis of 2007, the Global Financial crisis of 2008, and the extremely slow and painful ensuing recovery, has raised systemic risk to the center stage of global economic discourses. The crisis has brought home the urgent need for a thorough assessment of the...

Objective - The vital role of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on firm performance has been widely studied in developed countries. Most studies have found a positive linear relationship between EO and firm performance. However, the empirical findings are inconclusive. According to the recent...