This study examines the impact of firms' overall corporate policy risk on stock liquidity. This study constructs a novel overall corporate policies risk index (PRI) for firms by capturing risk embedded in managers' different policy decisions, such as investment, financing, diversification, and...

Liquidity requirements for commercial banks improve risk-sharing for depositors. Nevertheless, shadow banks, issuing securities with lower liquidity, operate outside such regulatory constraints. In an economy featuring shadow banks with a constant level of liquidity for shadow bank securities,...

Our investigation examined the impact of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) activities on corporate financial distress. This research utilised data from companies listed in the FTSE All-Share index from 2014 to 2022 from the Refinitiv EIKON database. We incorporated year- and...

This study investigates whether cryptocurrency investments have a distinct impact on corporate liquidity depending on when they are held and the stage of a firm's life cycle at the time of holding, using a sample of Korean companies. The empirical findings first show that cryptocurrency...

Conventional measures of bank solvency fail to account for the unique liquidity risks posed by deposits. Using public regulatory data, we develop a novel measure, economic capital, that jointly quantifies the impact of credit, liquidity, and market risk on bank solvency. We validate that...

This study examines the effect of population aging on corporate cash holdings using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2021. These results indicate that population aging increases corporate cash holdings. The mechanism analysis suggests that increased labor adjustment costs...

The survival of a company is highly dependent on the management of its working capital. Effective working capital management can lead to greater profitability. Insufficient working capital or liquidity shortages can severely hinder profitability and operational sustainability. The primary...

This systematic review analyzes and compares the predictive power between traditional financial ratios and cash flow-based ratios in estimating performance. Although traditional ratios of return on assets and debt to equity have received extensive application, cash flow ratios are increasingly...

This research indicates that accounting is essential for assessing South Asian airline companies via financial ratio analysis from 2011 to 2022. The accounting measurements delineate informing and facilitating strategic decision-making from 2011 to 2022. The analysis utilizing GARCH and PARCH...

In the aftermath of global financial crises and amid increasing complexity in banking operations, understanding and managing various types of risk - especially liquidity, credit, and solvency risks - has become a global concern for financial stability. This study addresses a critical gap in the...

This paper examines the direct and spillover effects of cash transfers paid in a rural and low-income setting. In the short run, an unconditional cash transfer program for ultra-poor households in Northern Nigeria led to a 12 percentage point increase in micro-enterprise formation for program...

Purpose: This empirical study investigates whether corporate cash holdings impact on firm value and whether this relationship is moderated by managerial ability. With the proliferation of the shareholder value ideology since the 1970s and the growth of corporate cash holdings, investigating how...

The present study explores the impact of earnings management on the readability of management discussion and analysis (MDA) section of annual reports of 384 Indian firms for 1,160 firm-years. It also explores the moderating behaviour of cash in explaining the association between earnings...

The relationship between macroeconomic factors and stock market liquidity is known but not the same can be said of macroeconomic factors and VC market liquidity. This study investigates whether there is a cointegration between macroeconomic factors and VC market liquidity and examines how...

Our study explores the association between data assetisation and corporate liquidity and growth. By examining China's "hidden champion" small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) sample from 2011 to 2021, we find that "hidden champion" SMEs with higher data assets exhibit higher liquidity and...

We study how financing constraints affect the cash holdings of small and mediumsized enterprises. There has been little empirical work on this topic, even though these firms often face financial constraints. We contribute by using detailed data on credit ratings in Sweden as a measure of...

Ensuring liquidity is critical for the functioning of banks. This study investigates the functional form of bank profitability and liquid asset holdings. We test for an inverted Kuznets curve-shaped quadratic polynomial relationship using generalized least square regression on an unbalanced...