Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the various methods and techniques used by Greek investors (both professional and individuals) when evaluating potential additions to their investment portfolios. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses both a questionnaire survey...

Purpose – The main aim of this paper is to report on a comprehensive survey of corporate financing decision‐making process in Sri Lankan listed companies and to compare these results with those of similar studies conducted in developed markets. Design/methodology/approach – The study was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the interest rate risk management (IRRM) practices of UK companies. In particular, the study examines five theories that have been advanced in the literature to explain why companies hedge: tax and regulatory arbitrage; under‐investment,...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the seasonal structure in the German monetary aggregate M 1 and output by means of fractional integration techniques. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a version of the tests of Robinson that permits testing seasonal I (d) models...

Purpose – This paper analyzes the responsiveness of different ownership forms to changing business environment by drawing on Turkish experience. Design/methodology/approach – This study is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the paper uses Malmquist index theory, to estimate the...

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate whether the wave of mergers observed in other European countries is suitable for the German banking industry. Design/methodology/approach – This question is approached by studying the relationship between market structure and profit (the so‐called...

Purpose – This paper attempts to investigate what kind of firms is more likely to use capital structure to signal; and in particular to investigate the impacts of corporate ownership structures on firms' capital structure signalling decisions. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops...

Purpose – Conventional studies discuss the effect of managerial ownership on firm performance and have conflicting findings. This paper seeks to find divergent mutual effects existing between managerial ownership and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – The three‐stage‐least...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine the effect of industry classification on the capital structure of SMEs in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical technique employed is regression framework with various capital structure measures as dependent variables, and with industry as...

Purpose – This paper's aim is to test for the presence of fractional integration, or long memory, in the daily returns of the Portuguese stock market using autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average (ARFIMA), generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) and...