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Gender Diverse Portfolios as New Asset Class
(Working Paper)This paper studies market-traded equity portfolios that are constructed based on a minimum number of female board members and/or a target female work force ratio. Using the top 1,000 US firms from 2002 to 2015 as the ... -
Global liquidity and capital flow regulations
(Article)After the Global Financial Crisis, the usage of capital controls and macroprudential policies has returned and becomes an essential element of the policy paradigm in different countries. However, our knowledge on the ... -
Global liquidity, market sentiment, and financial stability indices
(Article)This paper investigates the determinants of global liquidity, measured using BIS data on cross-border claims of banks (bank flows) in a sample of 149 countries. The main contribution of our paper is in identifying the ... -
Globalization, free markets and investor protection
(Article)Using data from 29 countries, this paper is the first attempt to examine whether economic, political and social integration explain how well investors, both shareholders and creditors, are protected from expropriation by ... -
Going green, going clean: Lean-green sustainability strategy and firm growth
(Article)Despite the widespread recognition of the paybacks of “going green” and “going clean”, limited research has focused on the impact of lean-green strategy on firm growth. In this study, we contribute to strategy and environmental ... -
Good corporate governance in Nigeria: Antecedents, propositions and peculiarities
(Article)Relying on an alternative theoretical framework (i.e. institutional theory), rather than the dominant agency theory, this paper examines the connections between corporate governance mechanisms and good practices, as ... -
Government Financial Reporting - Good Practices from sub-Saharan Africa
(Article)This study attempts to codify good practices in financial reporting by sub-Saharan African governments. The study identifies, analyses and documents existing good practices from annual financial reports by central governments ... -
Harnessing the potentials of technology incubation centres (TICs) as tools for fast-tracking entrepreneurship development ans actualisation of the Vision 20:2020 in Nigeria
(Article)Purpose - Entrepreneurship development in Nigeria requires the adoption and assimilation of enterprise development models from nations with replicable success stories. technology incubation centre (TIC) is one of the potent ... -
High frequency trading, price discovery and market efficiency in the FTSE100
(Article)This study examines the role of high frequency trading in price discovery and efficiency in the FTSE100 index tick changes. Using a unique data set, we find that there is no random walk when investors extract information ... -
Home country Institutional Impediments and International Expansion of Developing Country SMEs
(Article)Though institutional contexts are critical drivers of firms’ international expansion, very limited research efforts have focused on how and when these factors facilitate developing country firms’ outward market activities. ... -
Home country macroeconomic factors on outward cross-border mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from the UK
(Article)In this paper, we examine the dynamic effects of key macroeconomic factors on the UK crossborder mergers and acquisitions (CBM&A) outflows over the period 1987–2008. Using a seven variable vector autoregressive/vector error ... -
Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China
(Article)The paper investigates the effects of institutions and their interaction with firms’ research & development (R&D) levels on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in China based on a sample of 680 European Union (EU) firms ... -
How businesses deliver sustainability.
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How Can National Governance affect Education Quality in Western Europe?
(Article)Purpose – As the international society faces unprecedented challenges associated with resource scarcity, governance scandals, increasing injustice and inequality, new opportunities for higher education institutions are ... -
How Corporate Governance affect Firm Value and profitability? Evidence from Saudi Financial and Non-Financial Listed Firms
(Article)This paper investigates the possible effects of corporate governance (CG) mechanisms on the firm market and accounting value (FV) in Saudi Arabia after the 2011 CG reforms using a sample of 300 annual reports of financial ... -
How do banks create money, and why can other firms not do the same? An explanation for the coexistence of lending and deposit-taking
(Article)Thanks to the recent banking crises interest has grown in banks and how they operate. In the past, the empirical and institutional market micro-structure of the operation of banks had not been a primary focus for investigations ...