The study shows critical roles of firm-specific information on herd behavior, which is underexplored in prior literature, albeit an increasing impact of firm-specific information on asset pricing. The main finding demonstrates that three of four selected measures of firm-specific information...

This study uses the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) developed by the World Bank to examine a cross-country corporate governance spillover effect among the G7, BRICS, and GIIPS countries during the period of 1996-2014. The panel unit root tests show stationary panel time series properties...

This paper examines the causal relationship between global stock market performance and Google search volume index (SVI) surrounding the disastrous event of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Based on 6,106 stock index-day observations of 71 countries during the period from 1 January 2020 to...

This paper investigates the relationship between aggregate market herding and investor attention in seven selected equity markets over the period of 2004-2019. The multinomial logistic regression employed in this study provides a more direct, comprehensive, and straightforward test than other...

Women from around the world are making substantive contributions to new ventures. Research on this phenomenon is starting to increase, but to this point, most of the research on female entrepreneurship has only examined it from the perspective of developed countries. As such, there is a gap in...