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Value of big data to finance: observations on an internet credit Service Company in China

his paper presents a case study on 100Credit, an Internet credit service provider in China. 100Credit began as an IT company specializing in e-commerce recommendation before getting into the credit rating busi...

Authors: Shaofeng Zhang, Wei Xiong, Wancheng Ni and Xin Li

Determining pledged loan-to-value ratio: an option pricing perspective

We investigated the determination of the pledged loan-to-value ratio in an optionpricing environment and mainly articulated the theoretical framework and analytical method.

Authors: Ran Zhang, Jing Zhang and Shuang Xu

Performance of Islamic and conventional stock indices: empirical evidence from an emerging economy

This study aims to investigate the extent to which the conditional volatilities of both Shari’ah compliant stock and conventional stock are related to those of interest rate and exchange rate in the emerging e...

Authors: Md Ejaz Rana and Waheed Akhter

A credit risk assessment model based on SVM for small and medium enterprises in supply chain finance

Supply chain finance (SCF) is a series of financial solutions provided by financial institutions to suppliers and customers facing demands on their working capital. As a systematic arrangement, SCF utilizes th...

Authors: Lang Zhang, Haiqing Hu and Dan Zhang

Cash holdings, corporate governance, and acquirer returns

The wealth effect of limiting shareholder rights via anti-takeover provisions(ATPs) is a contentious issue. By taking the differential effect hypothesis perspective, our study aims to provide additional eviden...

Authors: Seoungpil Ahn and Jaiho Chung

Invigorating foreign aid administration: remittances’ strategy, pro-poor and gender focus

The pitfall of top-down approach to development is identified as a major cause of aid inefficiency. The approach is fraught with corruption and unethical practices that have bedeviled aid administration. Meanw...

Authors: Adebayo Adedokun

Heterogeneous expectations, IPO Underpricing and issuing mechanism

Compared with the fixed-price mechanism, the bookbuilding mechanism has not changed the Chinese IPO high underpricing. How to develop scientific and reasonable IPO pricing, and reduce the high IPO underpricing...

Authors: Xiao-cheng Zhang, Miaomiao Zhang, Shao-an Huang and Yongsheng Zhou

The information content of financial survey response data

Market data for financial studies typically derives from either historical transactions or contemporaneous surveys of sentiment and perceptions. The research communities analyzing data from these opposing cate...

Authors: J Christopher Westland

Volatility spillover effect between financial markets: evidence since the reform of the RMB exchange rate mechanism

The volatility spillover effect between the foreign exchange and stock markets has been a major issue in economic and financial studies. In this paper, GC-MSV model was used to study the spillover effect betwe...

Authors: Zhengde Xiong and Lijun Han

Exploring the critical factors influencing online lending intentions

Online lending (P2P lending) is a type of internet finance mainly used to meet the financial needs of small and medium-sized enterprises and groups of individuals. It is a supplement to the traditional financi...

Authors: Peng Wang, Haichao Zheng, Dongyu Chen and Liangchao Ding

Economics of eBay’s buyer protection plan

This paper explores the financial viability of eBay’s Buyer Protection Plan.

Authors: J. Christopher Westland

Social credit: a comprehensive literature review

To avoid credit fraud, social credit within an economic system has become an increasingly important criterion for the evaluation of economic agent activity and guaranteeing the development of a market economy ...

Authors: Lean Yu, Xinxie Li, Ling Tang, Zongyi Zhang and Gang Kou

Harnessing Internet finance with innovative cyber credit management

In the last two decades, Internet technologies, such as cloud computing, mobile communications, social media, and big data analytics, have brought tremendous changes to our society and reshaped the business in...

Authors: Zhangxi Lin, Andrew B. Whinston and Shaokun Fan

Will high-frequency trading practices transform the financial markets in the Asia Pacific Region?

High-frequency trading (HFT) practices in the global financial markets involve the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), especially the capabilities of high-speed networks, rap...

Authors: Robert J. Kauffman, Yuzhou Hu and Dan Ma

A process model on P2P lending

Online peer-to-peer lending (P2P lending) is booming as the popularity of e-finance. To develop a conceptual model for the P2P lending process is great valuable for managers to tack the issues of marketing, ma...

Authors: Huaiqing Wang, Kun Chen, Wei Zhu and Zhenxia Song

Systemic risk management and investment analysis with financial network analytics: research opportunities and challenges

Recent economic crises like the 2008 financial tsunami has demonstrated a critical need for better understanding of the topologies and various economic, social, and technical mechanisms of the increasingly int...

Authors: Daning Hu, Gerhard Schwabe and Xiao Li

Editor’s introduction

Authors: Gang Kou