2024 December - 55 articles
This study investigates the financial performance of target companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&As), aiming to reveal the dynamics affecting these organizations pre- and post-transaction. Utilizing a comprehensive dataset, we analyz...
The Basel III regulations turned the banking industry around worldwide and created new challenges for banks’ financial stability, particularly in liquidity management. As the demand for compliance with the rules started to grow, the inability o...
This study examines the factors influencing tax decision-making from the perspectives of income and sales auditors in Jordan. It explores how internal and external factors shape auditing processes and compliance. Using a sample of 215 tax auditors fr...
Our study explores auditors’ perceptions of the triggers and hurdles of implementing continuous auditing (CA) in Egypt. It also explores auditors’ perceptions of the impact of CA on their independence. A survey of ninety-five auditors wor...
Based on the significance of AI adoption in the accounting field, this study intends to investigate its impact on the accounting profession; specifically on the efficiency and quality of financial data, financial fraud detection and tax filings, and...
The subject of this research is the performance of stocks on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE). The main issue of interest is whether the index price levels are supported by fundamentals or if there is a bubble or undervaluation on the BG stock mark...
Green finance has emerged as a critical driver of sustainable development for the banking industry. Engaging employees is essential for the successful implementation of green finance initiatives. This study aims to examine the employee engagement str...
The theoretical literature on credit reallocation has yielded conflicting predictions on both the extent and the efficiency of reallocations during economic downturns. We borrowed the methodology of measuring job reallocation to measure credit reallo...
Purpose—This paper investigates the role of forensic accounting skills in enhancing auditor self-efficacy towards fraud detection in Indonesia. It also examines the moderating effect of the implementation of Generalized Audit Software (GAS) and...
This paper seeks to examine the extent to which environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure affects capital structure and cost of capital for non-financial Fortune 500 firms. With a sample period from 2007 to 2022 and a system (Generalized...
This study aims to identify the determinants of the auditor’s qualified opinion in 71 Portuguese privately owned hospitals from 2019 to 2021. Seven research hypotheses are defined, related to the characteristics of the audited hospitals (size,...
The continued rise in SMEs’ corruption-related activities results in uncertainty around their ability to sustainably contribute to economic growth, leaving SMEs financially fragile and exposed to problems associated with trade credit management...
In behavioral economics, it has widely been documented that there might be a close relationship between overall market sentiment and economic performance, such as GDP per capita. In this paper, we investigate the effects of market sentiment on stock...
The evaluation and ranking of companies in any sector are generally based on a single measure of financial success, so the results obtained vary according to the classification criteria used. This study applies a multi-criteria approach to develop a...
This study aims to combine the use of dynamic conditional correlation multiple generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (DCC-GARCH) models and deep learning techniques in analyzing the dynamic correlation between stock markets. First...
Education is considered an investment in human capital that is gained at the cost of knowledge acquisition. This cost is borne by the beneficiary along with subsidy provided by the government, if any, that is mainly collected through tax revenues. Th...
This paper examines the sustainability of the current account balances for three leading economies that play significant roles in global financial and geopolitical developments: Using the concept of sustainability as the ability of an economy to meet...
This research conducts a meticulous examination of the determinants influencing dividend payout dynamics among firms listed on the Korean Stock Exchange (KSE) from 1995 to 2021, a period characterized by profound economic fluctuations. By leveraging...
This study examines the moderating role of profitability in the relationship between leverage and dividend policy in listed manufacturing firms in Nigeria and South Africa. Using a sample of 915 firm-year observations from 2013 to 2022, the analysis...
The simplified tax system is the most common special tax regime in the Russian Federation in terms of the number of taxpayers. Tax revenues from the simplified tax system account for 6% of the structure of tax revenues of the consolidated budgets of...
This study investigates the integration of sustainability practices and risk management in Indonesian social enterprises, emphasizing the role of innovation as a mediator and operational type as a moderator. Social enterprises face unique challenges...
We examine the relationship between managerial social capital (MSC) and firms’ dividend policies. For an unbalanced panel of publicly listed UK FTSE 350 firms from 2006 to 2017, we find that MSC has a negative impact on a firm’s dividend...
This study investigates the relationship between shipping connectivity, environmental quality, financial development, and economic growth among 14 countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) from 2006 to 2019. Using panel-corr...
Taxation serves as a vital lifeline for government revenue, directly contributing to national development and the welfare of its citizens. Ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the tax collection process is essential for maintaining a sustaina...
In this article, we examine whether incorporating complexity measures as features in deep learning (DL) algorithms enhances their accuracy in predicting forex market volatility. Our approach involved the gradual integration of complexity measures alo...
The aim of this study is to carry out an analysis of the intellectual structure of the introduction of AI into finance, in the period from 1995 to 2023, using SciMAT v.1.1.04 software. The results indicate how research on the incorporation of AI in f...
Cryptocurrency is a cryptography-based digital asset with extremely volatile prices. Around USD 70 billion worth of cryptocurrency is traded daily on exchanges. Trading cryptocurrency is difficult due to the inherent volatility of the crypto market....
This study sought to ascertain a machine learning algorithm capable of predicting crises in the African stock market with the highest accuracy. Seven different machine-learning algorithms were employed on historical stock prices of the eight stock ma...
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) finance is a cornerstone of modern finance and investment, as it changes the classical return-risk view of investment by incorporating an additional dimension to investment performance: the ESG score of the...
Long-term investors are often hesitant to invest in assets or strategies prone to significant drawdowns, primarily due to the challenge of predicting these drawdowns. This study presents a multivariate Markov-switching model for small- and large-cap...
This paper examines the issue cost-effective procurement of a commodity product when its spot (open) market prices are stochastic, contract prices are previously determined, and there are costs associated with adjusting (i.e., switching) the procurem...
Extent ecosystems of crypto financial assets (crypto-assets) lack parity and coherence across the globe. This asymmetry is further heightened with a knowledge gap in operational risk management, wherein the global landscape of crypto-assets is charac...
This study evaluates financial inclusion in Peru through self-organizing maps. Financial inclusion is a multidimensional issue of great importance on the global agenda and continues to concern various actors internationally. In this context, the obje...
This paper investigates the relationship between sustainable entrepreneurship and financial inclusion, financial literacy, and entrepreneurial orientation. As sustainable entrepreneurship gains academic and practical interest, understanding factors t...
This article examines whether Banco de la República (Banrep), Colombia’s central bank, has operated under a dual-regime policy framework—one for recessionary periods and another for periods of economic overheating—since adopt...
The study focuses on analyzing the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on economic growth and reducing inequality, highlighting the importance of CSR in achieving sustainable development and social justice. The main aim is to analyze how...
This study examines the trends in the literature about adopting digital banking in emerging economies. It is based on the concepts of digital transformation and technological adoption, which significantly impact the development of the banking industr...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the Movement Control Order (MCO) have had a negative impact on the financial well-being of low-income families in urban areas. This study involved respondents living in the public housing project (PPR) residential areas in K...
This study examines the short-run and long-run equilibrium relationship between the banking sector’s efficiency and stability and its endogenous and exogenous determinants, such as inflation and international oil price shocks in Saudi Arabia fr...
This study examines compliance behavior in the context of environmental tax policies, highlighting the essential role that these policies play in achieving the objectives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Environmental taxes are crucial in...
This study investigates the impact of CEO characteristics—specifically CEO age, founder status, and family membership—on investment efficiency in Jordanian non-financial companies, with a focus on the moderating role of political connecti...
This study examines the factors determining inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and its effects on productivity, ultimately contributing to economic growth. Using a two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) approach, we analyzed a panel of 84 c...
Drug discovery and development require significant costs and time, making investment acquisition crucial. However, there are few biopharmaceutical startups with high valuations in Japan. Unlike other countries, entrepreneurship in Japan is relatively...
Storage profit maximization is based on buying energy at the lowest prices and selling it at the highest prices. The best strategy must thus be based on both accurately predicting the price peak hours and on rightly choosing when to buy and when to s...
This study introduces Fin-ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Intelligence Causal Econometrics), a framework designed to forecast financial time series by integrating multiple analytical approaches including co-occurrence networks, supply chain analysis, an...
Prior research empirically finds that the systematic equity risk for US firms as measured by beta reflects the risk of their defined benefit pension plans, despite opaque and complicated pension accounting rules. This paper re-examines this question...
The study investigates the effect of geopolitical risk (GPR) on the financial distress of tourism & hospitality firms in India. Using two-step GMM, this study evaluates the impact of GPR, GPR Threat, GPR Action and GPR India on financial distress...
This article aims to examine the voting behaviour of long-term institutional shareholders towards board recommendations on management proposals and resolutions and how the potential agency costs could moderate such voting behaviour. This study is con...
This research explores the efficacy of rebalancing strategies in a diversified portfolio constructed exclusively with exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We selected five ETF types: short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, U.S. equities, global commodities, U.S. re...
This study explores the interplay between tax incentives, creative compliance, and innovation in enhancing business resilience and sustainability among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Indonesia, addressing gaps in the existing literat...
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