Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine dividend policies in an emerging capital market, in a country undergoing a transitional period. Design/methodology/approach – Using pooled cross‐sectional observations from the top 50 listed Egyptian firms between 2003 and 2005, this study...

Increasing economic integration and development of global markets means that few companies, if any, are unaffected by currency movements. Change in a company's earnings due to unexpected changes in foreign currency exchange rates relative to their domestic currency is known as foreign exchange...

Purpose – This study seeks to provide valuable new insight into the timeliness of corporate internet reporting (TCIR) by a sample of Irish‐listed companies. Design/methodology/approach – The authors apply an updated version of Abdelsalam et al. TCIR index to assess the timeliness of...

We test the impact of religiosity and ownership structure on the risk profile of banks, which issued securitisation. We employ GMM estimation using unique database on asset securitization of 672 commercial banks (4889 year-observations) in 22 countries (from 2003-2012), which have dual banking...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of firm size and foreign operations on the exchange rate exposure of UK non-financial companies from January 1981 to December 2001. Design/methodology/approach – The impact of the unexpected changes in exchange rates on firms'...

This study examines the nature of interconnectedness between religious, conventional, ethicaland major providers of stock indices. We derive the contemporaneous and temporalinterdependencies among these stock index returns before and during the outbreak of theCovid-19 pandemic via a Bayesian...