Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare sector has emerged as a resilient and profitable domain amidst market fluctuations. Consequently, investing in healthcare securities, particularly through mutual funds, has gained traction. Existing research on predicting future prices of...

This paper assesses the performance of 355 actively managed Japanese Equity Mutual Funds between April 2011 and April 2016. The equal weight portfolio and Jensen’s alpha measures of active management provide strong evidence that Japanese Mutual Funds fail to outperform the benchmark...

In the mutual fund literature, it is an established fact that investors "chase past performance". However, the opposite impact of flows on performance is widely discussed. Mainly, liquidity costs are held responsible for short-term erosion of performance, while high inflows enhance performance...

This paper investigates the motivations behind corporate social responsibility (CSR) by considering the consequences of environmental, social and governance (ESG) failures that CSR is intended to avoid. Using data from 2581 public U.S. firms over 2007–2018, this paper finds that such failures...

This review aims to study the knowledge development and research dissemination on the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on earnings management through a social network approach using a bibliometric review. A systematic bibliometric review was carried out on 329 papers obtained...

The relationship between companies and society has been questioned for a long time. However, the effect of the motives behind CSR regarding the companies' actual engagement with CSR has received little attention, especially in emerging markets. This paper tackles this issue for the first time...

This article explores the relationship between corporate financial performance (CFP) and commitment to ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices, using a sample of companies listed on the S&P 500 and TSX 60 indices. By employing a linear regression model, the study examines how...