The paper establishes if dividend policy is a trustworthy indicator for the investors to predict a company's future growth in value to maximize their returns on their portfolios. The analysis technique used is cross-sectional regression analysis since the research focuses on various companies...

Using annual panel data of 126 developing countries over the period from 1970 to 2016, this study investigates effects of remitted funds' volatility and consumption on financial development. Our results, after controlling for endogeneity, document a significant adverse impact of remittances'...

We examine the relationship between trading activity and price volatility in Indonesia corporate bond market using 2010-2014 data. We also investigate the role of liquidity and credit quality in this relationship. We find that volume and trading frequency have a positive and significant...

While the existing literature acknowledges the effect of banking structure on industrial growth as well as the effect of financial development on industrial growth and its volatility, we examine whether banking structure, given bank (financial) development, exerts any nontrivial effect on...

We study the interactions between cryptocurrencies, stock markets, and economic policy uncertainty (EPU) by means of a Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) framework. We rely on two market factors to model the comovements of returns within cryptocurrencies and stock markets. We...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship of volatility and trading volume using a bivariate vector autoregressive methodology. This study found bidirectional causal relations between trading volume and volatility, which is in accordance with sequential information arrival hypothesis that...

This paper provides a review of the general concepts and influential findings of empirical research on risk-coping behavior and consumption smoothing arrangements in rural economies of developing countries. Low-income individuals live with high levels of risk and limited access to formal...

The factors that determine Indonesian bank risk (especially income volatility) are considered from a longer run perspective. The paper considers Indonesian banking through three distinct developmental phases, (i) the period leading up to and including the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), (ii) the...

Has the unprecedented financial globalization of recent years changed the behavior of capital flows across countries? Using a newly constructed database of gross and net capital flows since 1980 for a sample of nearly 150 countries, this paper finds that private capital flows are typically...