This paper examines the effects of institutional quality on firm-level financial performance. The data include non-financial firms listed in stock exchanges in G8 and MENA countries. The total number of firms in the G8 and MENA is 347 and 389, respectively, covering the period 2017-2020. The...

The progress of financial markets depends on the way world investors foresee the market potential of the country of choice. Countries that are associated with favorable economic incentives are able to motivate investments in their respective stock markets. The objective of this paper is to...

Purpose The financing of growth of the firm is quite sensitive to fluctuations in Fund rates. This requires a treatment of Fund rates being subject to structural shifts. This paper examines the impact of threshold Federal Fund Rate (FFR), being a proxy for Federal Reserve policy, on different...

Purpose - This paper aims to examine the effect of both inflation rate and interest rate on stock prices using quarterly data on non-financial firms listed in DJIA30 and NASDAQ100 for the period 1999-2016. The stock duration model is used to measure the sensitivity in variations in inflation...

Purpose: This paper uses the event study methodology to analyze the impact of unexpected political event on stocks abnormal returns. The objective is twofold. The first is to reach robust estimates of stocks abnormal returns. The second is to reach robust estimates of the effects of unexpected...

Purpose: The banking sector in the MENA region is exposed to financial risks that originate from both the internal and external environment. Related studies in the literature have reached inconclusive determinants of the overall risks to banks. This paper examines the robustness of the...

Welfare quality is usually a stochastic outcome, as attempts at improving social welfare cannot be predicted in advance. The advances in stock market participation conclude that equity market performance is able to reflect investors' mass reactions and therefore can fairly reflect the empiricism...

This paper examines the impacts of observed versus uncertain (stochastic) institutional quality of corporate debt financing. This paper compares the impacts of two distinct levels of institutional quality in developed and developing economies. World governance indicators (WGIs) are used as...

Purpose: This paper examines the interrelatedness between countries' stock market development and competitiveness and the equity risk premium (hereinafter, ERP). In addition, this paper examines the length of time that stock market development takes to have an impact of ERP. The results offer an...