Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the value relevance of segment information for both public and private sector banks in India. In doing so, this paper examines a rapidly developing economy and perhaps its most critical sector during this period of strong economic growth....

Previous researchers (eg. Libby, 1976 and Salamon et al., 1976) have proposed three alternative strategies for improving decisions: (1) changing the information set; (2) replacing the decision maker with a model; and (3) training the user (e.g. with the use of feedback information). The present...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent of risk disclosure and the factors determining this for all listed banks in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach Relying on a theoretical framework based on agency theory and the creation of a risk disclosure index (RDI) based on...