This study investigates the association between employee-friendly schemes and firm financial performance using a frontier market, Vietnam, as a research context. We employ Anphabe's "Top 100 Vietnam Best Places to Work" lists to identify companies with ideal employee-friendly practices. Using a...

This study examines the effect of investor sentiment on the Vietnamese stock market. Using the results of international football matches as exogenous shocks on investor sentiment and information on two major stock exchanges, we document a link between investor sentiment and stock market returns....

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of the stock market during the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Vietnam - a frontier country that successfully tackles the outbreak of this pandemic. Employing data from 11 different industries and more than 700 firms...

This study investigates the association between ownership concentration and firm innovation using a large data sample of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) spanning 93 countries from 2011 to 2018. We find that higher ownership concentration is associated with a lower likelihood of...

This study investigates the relationship between central bank independence and financial stability in a global sample covering 56 countries from 1980 to 2012. We find strong and robust evidence that central bank independence and its four dimensions (personnel independence, financial...

This study investigates the relationship between bank market power and firms’ financing constraints, indicated by the likelihood of being discouraged from applying for bank loans. The full data sample covers more than 72,000 small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in 113 countries around the...

The effects of board gender diversity (BGD) on financial stability of financial institutions have long been an important topic, creating a rich strand of literature that focuses extensively on banks. Meanwhile, little is known about the implications of BGD on risk in microfinance institutions...