This study examines the influence of boards' characteristics with respect to independence, diversity, and diligence on the environment, social, governance (ESG) disclosure among Bursa Malaysia companies. The board characteristics are proxied by the percentage of independent directors, women on...

This study examines the moderation effects of audit committee members' multiple directorships on the association between the number of audit committee meetings, attendance in the audit committee meetings and firm performance. A panel generalized least square method is used as the analysis tool,...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine investor sentiment by measuring the impact of market sentiment shocks on the volatility of the Islamic stock index of five ASEAN countries, with noise traders as a proxy for market sentiment. Design/methodology/approach: The GJR-GARCH model is...

This study examines the relationship between COVID-19, government response measures, and stock market volatilities for 11 developed and developing economies within the Asia-Pacific region. Our period of study is between 15 February-30 May 2020. Using the continuous wavelet transformation (CWT)...

This study examines the moderation effects of audit committee members' multiple directorships on the association between the number of audit committee meetings, attendance in the audit committee meetings and firm performance. A panel generalized least square method is used as the analysis tool,...

This study examines the relationship between COVID-19, government response measures, and stock market volatilities for 11 developed and developing economies within the Asia-Pacific region. Our period of study is between 15 February-30 May 2020. Using the continuous wavelet transformation (CWT)...

This study examines the long-run share performance of acquirer' companies listed on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange (Tadawul) from 1st January 2000 to 31st August 2017. Using the buy-and-hold abnormal return method, the present study finds that the acquirer companies' shares for the cash payment...

This study examines the short-and-long-run share performance of IPO companies listed on the Saudi Arabia Stock Exchange (Tadawul) from 1st January 2000 to 31st August 2017. 45 IPO companies were included in this study. This study employs the event time approach and abnormal returns are...

The present study provides evidence for the long run post-acquisition share performance of acquirer companies traded on Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) for the period of 1998 to 2017. This study employs an event study methodology, a buy-and-hold abnormal return approach (BHAR) to compute the...