This paper has two main objectives: first, to identify main drivers of self-listing after demutualisation in Asia-Pacific region and second, to investigate the level of outside supervision, corporate governance mechanisms of the self-listed stock exchanges. We test several hypotheses to...

This paper provides evidence on the impact of internal finance constraints, growth opportunities and debt overhang on the firm-level investment in 14 Asian countries over the period of 1990-2010. We used Panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) that allows for time-varying effects through the...

This paper proposes a new framework for screening food manufacturing companies for Shari'ah compliance and investibility in the Islamic capital market. The paper reviews the current state of art in the screening methodologies, and through a critical review of current methodologies, highlights...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the applicability of developed country turnaround predication models as well as an “in country” developed turnaround prediction model for a sample of financially distressed Malaysian companies over the period of 2000-2007.Multiple Discriminant...