In the aftermath of global financial crises and amid increasing complexity in banking operations, understanding and managing various types of risk - especially liquidity, credit, and solvency risks - has become a global concern for financial stability. This study addresses a critical gap in the...

This study investigates whether cryptocurrency investments have a distinct impact on corporate liquidity depending on when they are held and the stage of a firm's life cycle at the time of holding, using a sample of Korean companies. The empirical findings first show that cryptocurrency...

Our investigation examined the impact of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) activities on corporate financial distress. This research utilised data from companies listed in the FTSE All-Share index from 2014 to 2022 from the Refinitiv EIKON database. We incorporated year- and...

Conventional measures of bank solvency fail to account for the unique liquidity risks posed by deposits. Using public regulatory data, we develop a novel measure, economic capital, that jointly quantifies the impact of credit, liquidity, and market risk on bank solvency. We validate that...

Liquidity requirements for commercial banks improve risk-sharing for depositors. Nevertheless, shadow banks, issuing securities with lower liquidity, operate outside such regulatory constraints. In an economy featuring shadow banks with a constant level of liquidity for shadow bank securities,...

This study examines the impact of firms' overall corporate policy risk on stock liquidity. This study constructs a novel overall corporate policies risk index (PRI) for firms by capturing risk embedded in managers' different policy decisions, such as investment, financing, diversification, and...

This paper examines the direct and spillover effects of cash transfers paid in a rural and low-income setting. In the short run, an unconditional cash transfer program for ultra-poor households in Northern Nigeria led to a 12 percentage point increase in micro-enterprise formation for program...

I provide the first systematic analysis of collateral choices in one of the main short-term funding markets, the repurchase agreement (repo) market. In repos, long-term bonds serve as collateral connecting short-term and long-term funding markets. In general collateral repos, banks can choose...

The survival of a company is highly dependent on the management of its working capital. Effective working capital management can lead to greater profitability. Insufficient working capital or liquidity shortages can severely hinder profitability and operational sustainability. The primary...

This systematic review analyzes and compares the predictive power between traditional financial ratios and cash flow-based ratios in estimating performance. Although traditional ratios of return on assets and debt to equity have received extensive application, cash flow ratios are increasingly...

This research indicates that accounting is essential for assessing South Asian airline companies via financial ratio analysis from 2011 to 2022. The accounting measurements delineate informing and facilitating strategic decision-making from 2011 to 2022. The analysis utilizing GARCH and PARCH...

This study examines the effect of population aging on corporate cash holdings using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2021. These results indicate that population aging increases corporate cash holdings. The mechanism analysis suggests that increased labor adjustment costs...

This study investigates the non-linear effect of the cash conversion cycle (CCC) on a firm's profitability for a sample of 6072 firms from five countries (Germany, Spain, France, Great Britain, and Italy) from 2006 to 2015. Additionally, this study explores the sensitivity of economic crises to...

Ensuring liquidity is critical for the functioning of banks. This study investigates the functional form of bank profitability and liquid asset holdings. We test for an inverted Kuznets curve-shaped quadratic polynomial relationship using generalized least square regression on an unbalanced...