Using a large firm-level dataset from the World Bank Business Enterprise Surveys over the period 2006---2019, we conduct a country-by-country analysis to better understand the countries driving the contentious finance-gender gap. Our results show that the finance-gender gap is only significant...

Purpose: Drawing on a cost–benefit perspective, this paper aims to explore the relation between information asymmetry and the decision to delist from stock exchanges during periods of uncertainty. Specifically, it investigates the role of firms’ intangible investments and the availability...

Purpose: This paper examines the contentious relationship between investment and cash flow using the 2008–2009 credit supply shock as a form of the quasi-natural experiment. Design/methodology/approach: Panel threshold models with unknown sample separation are estimated for a sample of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how managers of African firms, operating in environments characterised by less developed capital markets and weak institutional structures, make use of their internally generated cash flows. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use a panel...