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International Journal of Financial Studies, Volume 6, Issue 4

2018 December - 18 articles

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Articles (18)

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,102 Views
18 Pages

Understanding the behaviour of the equity yield and its relation to the bond yield is important for portfolio managers and those engaged in modelling the interaction between asset classes. During the mid-1900s, the equity yield—which was previo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,962 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Bankruptcy Threat for Risk Management Purposes: A Model Approach

  • Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala,
  • Joanna Błach and
  • Joanna Trzęsiok

In previous works, the importance of risk management implementation was addressed with regard to the problem of bankruptcy threat, with the explanation of risk impact on higher bankruptcy costs or the underinvestment problem. However, the evaluation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
15,003 Views
19 Pages

UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations (FFP) have impacted European club football. After five distinct applications of the break-even requirement, which represents the cornerstone of these regulations, it is time for an asses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,965 Views
17 Pages

In uncertain food safety environments, the suppliers of food raw materials (FRM) are facing crucial food safety issues. Therefore, this article aims to probe the risk-averse attitude of FRM suppliers in the face changing marketing environments, in or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,481 Views
13 Pages

Many Are Never Too Many: An Analysis of Crowdfunding Projects in Brazil

  • Paulo Mourao,
  • Marco António Pinheiro Silveira and
  • Rodrigo Santos De Melo

This paper analyzed the most important aspects for the success of crowdfunding projects observing the Kickante platform, an important crowdfunding Brazilian platform. We found that the total value per project increased with the number of investors. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,430 Views
16 Pages

This study analyzes the firm-specific factors affecting the dividend payout decisions of the companies whose shares are traded on the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange. To this end, the dynamic panel regression is applied to 853 observations of yearly av...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,080 Views
18 Pages

Corporate Social Responsibility and Rule 144A Debt Offerings: Empirical Evidence

  • Wassim Dbouk,
  • Dawei Jin,
  • Haizhi Wang and
  • Jianrong Wang

Rule 144A allows a firm to issue securities without a public registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and only qualified institutional investors can purchase such securities. In this study, focusing on corporate bonds issue...

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

This paper analyzes whether the Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations set by Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) have influenced the auditing fees charged to football clubs. In addition, it explores the determinants of audit fees. We used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
12,608 Views
17 Pages

Despite the globalisation of European soccer, each professional league exhibits specificities. French Ligue 1 sometimes contends with the trading-off of financial performance against sporting performance of its teams in European soccer competitions,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,847 Views
21 Pages

The inability of carriers to forecast “demand for containerships” led them to order larger ships. Maritime economists were also unable to forecast it. The new-buildings cut cost per TEU, but “estimated economies of scale” are...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,936 Views
22 Pages

Crude oil is the dominant energy resource worldwide. The focus of this paper is on its historical behaviour and subsequent implications for the global economy with an emphasis on the lead–lag relationship between spot and future prices. The pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,117 Views
22 Pages

Through the three industrial revolutions, technology has enabled rapid changes in society. In a capitalist society, capital is invested where there is utility, for example, economic benefit. We intend to determine that the stock price of a company th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,526 Views
13 Pages

This article investigates the fundamental value of digital platforms, such as Facebook and Google. Despite the transformative nature of digital technologies, it is challenging to value digital services, given that the usage is free of charge. Applyin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
25,574 Views
22 Pages

The “One Belt and One Road” (OBOR) project was started by the Chinese government with the aim of achieving sustainable economic development and increasing cooperation with other countries. This project has five major objectives, which inc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,060 Views
18 Pages

The topic of contagion has gained importance in the last few decades, earning its place amongst the most debated topics in international economics. Contagion is a phenomenon where market disturbances in crisis times are observed to spread from one co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,005 Views
14 Pages

Predictive modeling is a key technique in auto insurance rate-making and the decision-making involved in the review of rate filings. Unlike an approach based on hypothesis testing, the results from predictive modeling not only serve as statistical ev...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
6,560 Views
3 Pages

We are pleased to announce the Special Issue on the Finance, Financial Risk Management and their Applications in the International Journal of Financial Studies. This Special Issue collects papers pertaining to several lines of research related to fin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,262 Views
15 Pages

This paper studied the effects of credit to private non-financial sectors on income inequality. In particular, we focused on the distinction between household and firm credits, and investigated whether these two types of credit had adverse effects on...

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