This paper demonstrates a significant, long-running relationship between stock prices and domestic interest rates in Turkey’s financial markets for the period of 2001 M1 – 2017 M4. Cointegration analysis is in...
Group decision models that contemplate the particularities of the decision-making process help organizations pursue their strategic objectives. In the financial market, the primary interest of organizations co...
Authors: Paulo Cesar Schotten and Danielle Costa Morais
There is a growing body of evidence that interest rate spreads in Africa are higher for big banks compared to small banks. One concern is that big banks might be using their market power to charge higher lendi...
Authors: Simplice A. Asongu and Nicholas M. Odhiambo
This research paper investigates the effect of macroeconomic variables on the exchange rate USD/CYN using yearly time series data for China economy from 1980 to 2017. ARDL bounds test approach for cointegratio...
Authors: Muhammad Kamran Khan, Jian-Zhou Teng and Muhammad Imran Khan
Using a sample of 280 firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, we empirically investigate factors that determine corporate cash holdings in different periods from 2005 to 2014. We divide the sample into th...
Authors: Khalil Jebran, Amjad Iqbal, Kalim Ullah Bhat, Muhammad Arif Khan and Mustansar Hayat
In the context of the debate on the role of cryptocurrencies in the economy as well as their dynamics and forecasting, this brief study analyzes the predictability of Bitcoin volume and returns using Google se...
Authors: Muhammad Ali Nasir, Toan Luu Duc Huynh, Sang Phu Nguyen and Duy Duong
This study examines the impact of financial development on corporate investment in terms of their influence on financing constraints. This study also tries to find the effect of financial development on the in...
By decomposing asset returns into potential maximum gain (PMG) and potential maximum loss (PML) with price extremes, this study empirically investigated the relationships between PMG and PML. We found signific...
This paper aims to examine how the adoption decision of the internet banking in North Cyprus would be affected based on the following dimensions; the technology features, the personal characteristics, the soci...
Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior (TPB) suggests that planned behavior is determined by behavioral intention. Despite extensive literature based on TPB, household mental budgeting behavior explained by TPB is...
Authors: Ume Habibah, Ibne Hassan, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal and Naintara
This study examines the access to credit, credit investment, and credit fungibility for small-holder farmers and medium- and large-scale farmers in the agricultural sector of the Shikarpur District of Sindh, P...
Authors: Abbas Ali Chandio, Yuansheng Jiang and Abdul Rehman
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into a country can benefit both the investing entity and host government. This study employed panel analysis to examine the factors that determine the direction of F...
Authors: Simplice Asongu, Uduak S. Akpan and Salisu R. Isihak
By recognizing the gap in the literature in examining the effects of financial resources and development outcomes at the household level, this paper examines whether the poorest income quintile would benefit m...
The primary objective of the paper is to forecast the beta values of companies listed on Sensex, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The BSE Sensex constitutes 30 top most companies listed which are popularly known a...
We used panel data analysis to evaluate the relative purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis of the ten ASEAN member countries between 1973 and 2015. We incorporated the cross-sectionally augmented panel unit...
Authors: S. M. Woahid Murad and Mohammad Amzad Hossain
Accurate forecasting of changes in stock market indices can provide financial managers and individual investors with strategically valuable information. However, predicting the closing prices of stock indices ...
Authors: Sarat Chandra Nayak and Bijan Bihari Misra
This study examined the relationship between financial innovation and economic growth in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka for the period Q1 1975 to Q4 2016. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) ...
Trust is a key dimension in the principal-agent relationship and it has been studied extensively. However, the dynamics, evolution, and intrinsic motivation and mechanisms have received less attention. This pa...
Authors: Ying Tang, Andrea Moro, Sandro Sozzo and Zhiyong Li
In this paper, we empirically show how wavelet decomposition can provide an easy vehicle to study the systematic risk properties of return series to serve as protocol for different traders who view the market ...
This study examines herding behavior in the Pakistani Stock Market under different market conditions, focusing on the Ramadan effect and Crisis period by using data from 2004 to 2014. Two regression models of ...
Authors: Imran Yousaf, Shoaib Ali and Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah
This paper uses a large panel of Pakistani non-financial firms over the period 2000–2013 to examine the role of financial constraints in establishing the relationship between cash flow and external financing. ...
Current financial discourse suggests the imminence of a cashless society, a concept that arose from the global popularization of digital financial services and the development of technologies with the potentia...
The wave of global financial crises (2008–2009) caused a surge in the capital flows of developed countries particularly, between developed and developing countries. The crunch hit all financial sectors with un...
Authors: Faisal Mustafa, Ambreen Khursheed and Maham Fatima
This study purpose is to connect the proxy of financial development which is total banking sector’s deposits with the economic growth in North Cyprus. The reason for using the total deposit differently with th...
This paper examines farmers’ perceptions of their exposure to climate change in rural northern Nigeria. It also examines whether there is a significant relationship between the exposure of farmers to climate c...
This study explored the effects of ambiguity on the calculation of Value-at-Risk (VaR) using a mathematical model based on the theory of Choquet-Brownian processes. It was found that while a moderate degree of...
Given the shale oil glut that culminated in the most recent and continuing oil price drop from June 2014 and the global financial crisis of 2008 that triggered a cyclical downturn in oil prices and stock marke...
Authors: Amarachi Uzo-Peters, Temitope Laniran and Adeola Adenikinju
Much research has been devoted to examination of the financial easing policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). However, this study is one of the first to use a dynamic micro-founded model to investigate empi...
The purpose of the study is to understand the role of cash flow sensitivity to investment as a measure of financial constraints among listed Indian manufacturing firms. It also analyses the role of tangibility...
Exclusion from the mainstream financial world is a burden on the poor of many countries. The proliferation of new mobile and online financial services, such as e-banking, money transfers, and payment processin...
Since the financial crisis of 2008, the theory of financial innovation has been a focus at a time of re-evaluation and re-conceptualization. However, little has been done to evaluate the current state of resea...
In this paper, we investigated the profitability of technical analysis as applied to the stock markets of the BRICS member nations. In addition, we searched for evidence that technical analysis and fundamental...
Authors: Matheus José Silva de Souza, Danilo Guimarães Franco Ramos, Marina Garcia Pena, Vinicius Amorim Sobreiro and Herbert Kimura
Focusing only on shareholders’ financial return is not consistent with the concept of sustainable corporate governance. In contrast to financial performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a non-fina...
To explain medium-term momentum and long-term reversal, we use the difference between the optional model and the CAPM model to construct a winner-loser portfolio. According to the CAPM model’s zero explanatory...
We investigate whether the success of contrarian investment strategies can be attributed to differences in the relative illiquidity of stocks categorized as value investments versus those categorized as glamo...
Authors: Aron A. Gottesman, Gady Jacoby and Huijing Li
A motivated finance-major student should master at least one programming language. This is especially true for students from quantitative finance, business analytics, those attending a Master of Science in Fin...
Rule- and template-based pattern-recognition methods are alternative ways to identify various patterns in stock prices alongside more traditional econometric tools. In this study, we generate an exterior templ...
We study the day-of-the-week effect across size deciles and in three 18-year subperiods. The results show a decline in the magnitude of the day-of-the-week effect, but the effect did not vanish. We find that t...
In this paper, we study the right time for an investor to stop the investment over a given investment horizon so as to obtain as close to the highest possible wealth as possible, according to a Logarithmic uti...
Intestate death can lead to the distribution of assets against the personal wishes of the deceased and is a problem in India, as 80% of Indians die without making a last will. Following the concepts of decisio...
Authors: Amarjit Gill, Harvinder S. Mand, John D. Obradovich and Neil Mathur
This study aims to clarify the role of FinTech digital banking start-ups in the financial industry. We examine the impact of the funding of such start-ups on the stock returns of 47 incumbent US retail banks f...
Authors: Yinqiao Li, Renée Spigt and Laurens Swinkels
For decades, African economies have embarked on financial sector reforms. However, the empirical implications of these reforms have been divergent. This paper investigates the impact of financial development o...
Authors: Janice Tieguhong Puatwoe and Serge Mandiefe Piabuo
Improving financial time series forecasting is one of the most challenging and vital issues facing numerous financial analysts and decision makers. Given its direct impact on related decisions, various attempt...
This paper examines the role of monetary and fiscal factors in interest rate variations in Sri Lanka under its deregulated regime of interest rates. In addition the paper also examines the role of monetary fac...
