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International Journal of Financial Studies, Volume 6, Issue 2

June 2018 - 26 articles

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Articles (26)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,291 Views
8 Pages

Financial inclusion has become a subject of growing interest for academics, professionals, and policy-makers in recent times. Researchers stress the importance of financial inclusion and highlight the significant role of financial institutions, such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
12,418 Views
22 Pages

Do Big Four Auditors Always Provide Higher Audit Quality? Evidence from Pakistan

  • Ammar Abid,
  • Muhammad Shaique and
  • Muhammad Anwar ul Haq

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of external auditors in potentially approving or limiting a firm’s earnings management practices in institutional settings which do not provide incentives for auditors to deliver high audit quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,151 Views
12 Pages

The aim of this article is to analyze the concept of “vulnerability” to natural disasters, focusing on the specific case of the Italian earthquake insurance. In this sense, we examine in detail the vulnerability definition and its relevan...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,789 Views
32 Pages

Wealth Effects on Household Final Consumption: Stock and Housing Market Channels

  • Yener Coskun,
  • Burak Sencer Atasoy,
  • Giacomo Morri and
  • Esra Alp

The study primarily explores the linkage between wealth effects, arising from stock and housing market channels, and household final consumption for 11 advanced countries over the period from 1970 Q1 to 2015 Q4. As a modelling strategy, we employ reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,421 Views
13 Pages

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows have increased considerably in the globalized world as of the mid-1980s. The main objective of this research is to analyze interactions between FDI inflows and financial sector development in Central and Easter...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,522 Views
19 Pages

This paper proposes a Markov regime-switching asset-pricing model and investigates the asymmetric risk-return relationship under different regimes for the Chinese stock market. It was found that the Chinese stock market has two significant regimes: a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
19,301 Views
28 Pages

The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic variables on the profitability of banks in Pakistan. This study applied the two-step generalized method of momentum (GMM) system estimator on an unb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,295 Views
14 Pages

Risk-Based Portfolios with Large Dynamic Covariance Matrices

  • Kei Nakagawa,
  • Mitsuyoshi Imamura and
  • Kenichi Yoshida

In the field of portfolio management, practitioners are focusing increasingly on risk-based portfolios rather than on mean-variance portfolios. Risk-based portfolios are constructed based solely on covariance matrices, and include methods such as min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,256 Views
19 Pages

The Impact of Brexit on the Stock Markets of the Greater China Region

  • Lucía Morales and
  • Bernadette Andreosso-O’Callaghan

An examination of Brexit and its initial impact on the main stock markets in the Greater China Region (GCR) was conducted using augmented market models that integrate Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) and implied volatility (VIX). The results do not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,293 Views
23 Pages

Housing, Housing Finance and Credit Risk

  • Alessandra Canepa and
  • Fawaz Khaled

This paper investigates the determinants of credit risk from a broad perspective. Particular attention is given to the role of housing affordability and household indebtedness. However, the impact of credit market developments and regulations is also...

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