This study explores the simultaneous relationship between corporate cash holdings and dividend policy using a large sample of around 400 non-financial firms for the period from 1991 to 2008. The results show that cash holdings are affected by dividends, leverage, growth, size, risk,...

Departing from previous studies, this paper investigates the impact of corporate board diversity on corporate performance and executive pay within the context of MENA countries. Our sample includes a balanced panel of 600 firm-year observations, consisting of 100 individual firms drawn from 5...

This study investigates the information content of the dividend per share for Jordanian non-financial firms, across the period from 1994 to 2003. The results indicate that the main purpose of dividend policy in Jordan is to signal firms' good performance, and therefore the information of...

Unlike previous empirical studies of capital structure, which are mainly restricted to the United States and other developed countries, this paper investigates capital structure decisions in developing countries through studying Jordanian non-financial firms. The paper finds that the capital...

This paper is one of the first papers to investigate the relationship between ownership structure and corporate governance, namely the factors that determine institutional investors' investment decisions in emerging markets using Jordanian data. A panel data analysis is applied to the dataset...

Dividend policy is one of the important and puzzling issues in corporate finance it is a controversial subject that finance scholars engage in theorizing the tendency of firms for paying dividends or not. This paper investigates dividend policy decisions in developing countries through studying...

The study investigates the comparatively under-researched relationship between ownership structure and capital structure in an emerging market. It is also one of the first studies to apply both single and reduced form equation methods using a panel data approach. Furthermore, this is the first...

This paper investigates the effect of firm- and country-level governance quality on audit quality, as measured by (i) auditor choice and (ii) audit fees. Our findings are three-fold. First, our evidence suggests that board independence is positively related to engaging a Big 4 auditor, while...

This paper aims at investigating the determinants of the frequency of board meetings as an index for board activity including their monitoring role. The research sample is composed of 120 UK firms based on their market capitalization for the period from 2003 to 2008. The study applies...