Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to adopt fuzzy interpretive structural modeling (ISM) to develop a precise evaluation framework and provide a theoretical basis for enhancing the understanding of responsible consumption and production (RCP) in academic and industrial fields....

In this paper, we provide the first evidence of liquidity timing ability of mutual funds outside US. We propose a new model to study liquidity timing ability of mutual funds. The model matches the higher moment framework required for emerging market study. We find that on the average the mutual...

A non-normal stock return distribution is common in emerging markets. We propose a new liquidity timing model in a higher moment. Overall, fund managers are able to time the market-wide liquidity even in a higher moment environment. A co-skewness risk factor is statistically priced. High...

This study examines the international information transmission among three major gold futures markets namely COMEX, MCX, and TOCOM. Two well documented approaches, which are VECM and information share, are utilized to measure the process of price discovery under this trivariate system. The...