We demonstrate the importance of firm-specific and industry-specific factors in the leverage decision of Australian firms. Empirical findings show that some firm-specific factors vary across industry, while prior literature assumes equal impact of these factors. In addition, we find that...

Higher education in Australia is one of the largest exporting sectors of the country. Every year, more than half a million international students come to Australia for further education. It is estimated that about 80 per cent of inbound international students arrive from Asian countries....

Using data from ten developed and seven emerging countries, we analyse stock market's volatility and the macroeconomic factors that influence stock market's volatility from January 2001 till December 2012. We use standard historical volatility model followed by Jones et al. (1998) and Andersen...

This paper analyses the determinants and the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth of Bangladesh. The study uses panel data analysis over the period from 2004 to 2013 to test the hypotheses. The study employs an OLS method for the analysis, and to determine the...

In this paper, I analyse three measures of stock market synchronicity; the classical measure, the R square measure and the zero return measure proposed by Morck et al. (2000), Skaife et al. (2006) and Khandaker (2012). It is found that the classical measure and the R square measure exhibit...

The paper examines the stock markets of 41 countries over a 10 year period from January 1996 to December 2005 using the classical stock synchronicity measure developed by Morck et al. (2000). The study finds evidence that stock markets in emerging economies are more synchronous than in developed...