This paper evaluates the relative financial managerial performance of thirty matched-pairs of US firms and Chinese (CN) firms. In this study, financial managerial performance is measured in terms of profitability, debt management, and asset management. Paired comparison is employed and eight...

I/O models have been widely used to assess the impacts of many changes in an economy. An I/O model is also an important tool to make forecasts and the results from an I/O model are very helpful in many policy-making processes. Many scientific findings in economics have to give credit to the I/O...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between corporate governance and the investment decision of small business firms in India. This study also seeks to extend the findings of Ruiz-Porras and Lopez-Mateo [1]. Owners/the members of board of directors of small business firms...

The paper investigates the importance of probability weighting in financial decisions and examines the degree to which risk-taking behavior deviates from expected utility theory in the presence of probability weighting. A group of professional traders participates in an experiment, whose data...

In this paper, we’ll try to study the impact of ownership structure (state owned/private) of banks in Tunisia on its level of cost efficiency. While, we have proposed an assessment of the cost efficiency of Tunisian banks during the period 1999-2009 on a sample of 17 universal banks using a...

This paper theoretically analyses the measurement of capital flight scale, and the factors that affect capital flight. Then the basic equation of capital flight is improved by introducing three lemmas. -- capital flight ; equation ; capital control

Economic development has been the focus of many studies in Islamic economics. This paper seeks to highlight the invaluable contributions that Islamic insurance (Takaful) can make to the goal of economic reforms enunciated by the present Nigerian government The paper generally argues that there...

This study was developed based on the theory of cultural relevance of accounting proposed by Baydoun and Willet [4] from the contributions originally released by Gray [16], which highlights the link between the accounting values and the practices that are materialized in the form, content and...

Prior research reports a remarkable homogeneity of hedge fund performance rankings produced by common risk-adjusted performance ratios. The paper at hand contributes to the discussion by studying the behavior of, and the relationship between these performance ratios over the time period from...

This study aimed at establishing the degree of influence of cost elements on the productivity of manufacturing companies. The study made used of a survey research design method and data were obtained through questionnaire and analyzed with the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. The study...