This study examines the relationship between several factors such as firm value, agency costs and profitability and a firms’ use of financial derivatives. The analysis differentiates between derivative assets and derivative liabilities and utilize a annual panel data set of nonfinancial firms...

This paper develops several efficient machine learning models and compare their performance in forecasting the value and direction of stock prices and indices from the ASEAN countries. Although all models adequately forecast the stock indices ranging from 40% to 95% accuracy and outperform...