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High-frequency trading from an evolutionary perspective: Financial markets as adaptive systems (2018)
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Manahov, V., Hudson, R., & Urquhart, A. (2018). High-frequency trading from an evolutionary perspective: Financial markets as adaptive systems. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, 24(2), 943-962. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1700

The recent rapid growth of algorithmic high-frequency trading strategies makes it a very interesting time to revisit the long-standing debates about the efficiency of stock prices and the best way to model the actions of market participants. To evalu... Read More about High-frequency trading from an evolutionary perspective: Financial markets as adaptive systems.

Risk perceptions and risk management approaches of Chinese overseas investors: An empirical investigation (2018)
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Ullah, S., Wang, Z., Stokes, P., & Xiao, W. (2019). Risk perceptions and risk management approaches of Chinese overseas investors: An empirical investigation. Research in international business and finance, 47, 470-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.09.008

This paper presents empirical evidence on how Chinese firms perceive and tackle risks associated with their overseas investments. Using a first-hand survey dataset of Chinese firms who invest abroad, we depict variations in (1) the levels of differen... Read More about Risk perceptions and risk management approaches of Chinese overseas investors: An empirical investigation.

Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China (2018)
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Cai, H., Boateng, A., & Guney, Y. (2019). Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China. Research in international business and finance, 47, 311-326. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.08.006

The paper investigates the effects of institutions and their interaction with firms’ research & development (R&D) levels on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in China based on a sample of 680 European Union (EU) firms over the period of 1998 to... Read More about Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China.

Assessing the design of accounting modules across UK higher educational institutions (2018)
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Ullah, S., Kimani, D., Bai, Y., & Ahmed, R. (2018). Assessing the design of accounting modules across UK higher educational institutions. Cogent Business and Management, 5(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2018.1510717

The purpose of this paper is to uncover how accounting modules are designed across UK Higher Educational Institutions. We carried out a content analysis of Undergraduate Year 1 Accounting Module Handbooks for a sample of 12 UK Universities. The stu... Read More about Assessing the design of accounting modules across UK higher educational institutions.

The effects of language skills on economic assimilation of female immigrants in the United States (2018)
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Antonia Silles, M. (2018). The effects of language skills on economic assimilation of female immigrants in the United States. The Manchester school, 86(6), 789-815. https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12231

This paper uses recent data from the American Community Survey between 2010 and 2015 to investigate the effect of language skills on women's economic assimilation who immigrated to the United States as children. The problem of endogenous language acq... Read More about The effects of language skills on economic assimilation of female immigrants in the United States.

Momentum effects in China: A review of the literature and an empirical explanation of prevailing controversies (2018)
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Yang, Y., Gebka, B., & Hudson, R. (2019). Momentum effects in China: A review of the literature and an empirical explanation of prevailing controversies. Research in international business and finance, 47, 78-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2018.07.003

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. The contribution of this paper is to enable solid conclusions to be drawn about the existence of momentum effects in China as the current evidence is unsatisfactory. We review and analyse the existing empirical studies on momentu... Read More about Momentum effects in China: A review of the literature and an empirical explanation of prevailing controversies.

The public and private marginal product of capital (2018)
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Lowe, M., Papageorgiou, C., & Perez Sebastian, F. (2019). The public and private marginal product of capital. Economica, 86(342), 336-361. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12268

Why doesn't capital flow to developing countries as predicted by the neoclassical model? What are the direction and degree of capital misallocation across nations? We revisit these questions by removing public capital from total capital to achieve a... Read More about The public and private marginal product of capital.

Dividend policy of Indonesian listed firms: The role of families and the state (2018)
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Duygun, M., Guney, Y., & Moin, A. (2018). Dividend policy of Indonesian listed firms: The role of families and the state. Economic modelling, 75, 336-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.07.007

We investigate factors influencing the dividend policy of the listed Indonesian firms by focusing on agency costs and ownership structure. Our study finds that firms with higher conflicts of interest among managers and shareholders pay lower dividend... Read More about Dividend policy of Indonesian listed firms: The role of families and the state.

Price discovery in the Chinese gold market (2018)
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Jin, M., Li, Y., Wang, J., & Yang, Y. C. (2018). Price discovery in the Chinese gold market. Journal of Futures Markets, 38(10), 1262-1281. https://doi.org/10.1002/fut.21938

This study conducts price discovery analysis in the Chinese gold market. Our results indicate that Chinese gold market price discovery occurs predominantly in the futures market. The result is robust to numerous different measures of price discovery,... Read More about Price discovery in the Chinese gold market.

A firm-level analysis of the upstream-downstream dichotomy in the oil-stock nexus (2018)
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Swaray, R., & Salisu, A. A. (2018). A firm-level analysis of the upstream-downstream dichotomy in the oil-stock nexus. Global finance journal, 37, 199-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2018.05.007

In this paper, we query whether the stock prices of nonintegrated firms in the upstream and downstream sectors of the global oil supply chain respond symmetrically to changes in oil prices. This inquiry relates to the “homogenous expectation” assumpt... Read More about A firm-level analysis of the upstream-downstream dichotomy in the oil-stock nexus.

Long memory in financial markets: A heterogeneous agent model perspective (2018)
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Zheng, M., Liu, R., & Li, Y. (2018). Long memory in financial markets: A heterogeneous agent model perspective. International review of financial analysis, 58, 38-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.04.001

During last decades, studies on asset pricing models witnessed a paradigm shift from rational expectation and representative agent to an alternative, behavioral view, where agents are heterogeneous and boundedly rational. In this paper, we model the... Read More about Long memory in financial markets: A heterogeneous agent model perspective.

Did long-memory of liquidity signal the European sovereign debt crisis? (2018)
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Sun, Z., Hamill, P. A., Li, Y., Yang, Y. C., & Vigne, S. A. (2019). Did long-memory of liquidity signal the European sovereign debt crisis?. Annals of Operations Research, 282(1-2), 355-377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-018-2850-y

This paper analyses high frequency MTS data to comprehensively evaluate the liquidity of the European sovereign bond markets before and during the European sovereign debt crisis for eleven countries. The Hill index, Generalized Hurst exponent and Dyn... Read More about Did long-memory of liquidity signal the European sovereign debt crisis?.

The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana (2018)
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Adams, D., Ullah, S., Akhtar, P., Adams, K., & Saidi, S. (2019). The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana. Resources policy, 61, 433-440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2018.03.005

Empirical research shows that developing countries that are rich in natural resources tend to suffer slow economic growth and development due to various factors such as quality of institutions, governance, among others. The phenomenon of slow growth... Read More about The role of country-level institutional factors in escaping the natural resource curse: Insights from Ghana.

Determinants of corporate cash holdings: An empirical study of Chinese listed firms (2018)
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Ahmed, R., Qi, W., Ullah, S., & Kimani, D. (2018). Determinants of corporate cash holdings: An empirical study of Chinese listed firms. Corporate Ownership and Control, 15(3), 57-65. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv15i3art5

This study explores the determinants of corporate cash holdings in the Chinese context. As one of the largest developing countries in the world, China offers an interesting opportunity to explore the role of corporate governance, and ownership struct... Read More about Determinants of corporate cash holdings: An empirical study of Chinese listed firms.

International evidence on the determinants of organizational ethical vulnerability (2018)
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Ullah, S., Ahmad, S., Akbar, S., & Kodwani, D. (2019). International evidence on the determinants of organizational ethical vulnerability. British Journal of Management, 30(3), 668-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12289

This paper proposes a model to explain what makes organisations ethically vulnerable. Drawing upon legitimacy, institutional, agency and individual moral reasoning theories we consider three sets of explanatory factors and examine their association w... Read More about International evidence on the determinants of organizational ethical vulnerability.

International evidence on the determinants of organisational ethical vulnerability (2018)
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Ullah, S., Ahmad, S., Akbar, S., & Kodwani, D. (2019). International evidence on the determinants of organisational ethical vulnerability. British Journal of Management, 30(3), 668-691. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12289

This paper proposes a model to explain what makes organisations ethically vulnerable. Drawing upon legitimacy, institutional, agency and individual moral reasoning theories we consider three sets of explanatory factors and examine their association w... Read More about International evidence on the determinants of organisational ethical vulnerability.

Credibility of sustainability reports: The contribution of audit committees (2018)
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Al-Shaer, H., & Zaman, M. (2018). Credibility of sustainability reports: The contribution of audit committees. Business strategy and the environment : BSE, 27(7), 973-986. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2046

Concerns about the credibility of sustainability reports can be mitigated through assurance. Although audit committee remit encompasses monitoring of sustainability issues, there are potential complementary and substitution issues between governance... Read More about Credibility of sustainability reports: The contribution of audit committees.

Corporate governance, critical junctures and ethnic politics: Ownership and boards in Malaysia (2018)
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Mohamad-Yusof, N. Z., Wickramasinghe, D., & Zaman, M. (2018). Corporate governance, critical junctures and ethnic politics: Ownership and boards in Malaysia. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 55, 33-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2017.12.006

Quotas and affirmative policies are often implicated in debates on corporate governance. This paper examines critical junctures and the role of willful actors in mobilizing their ethnic and political positions to affect governance reforms in Malaysia... Read More about Corporate governance, critical junctures and ethnic politics: Ownership and boards in Malaysia.

An analysis of liquidity skewness for European sovereign bond markets (2018)
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Yan, W., Hamill, P., Li, Y., Vigne, S. A., & Waterworth, J. (2018). An analysis of liquidity skewness for European sovereign bond markets. Finance research letters, 26, 274-280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2018.02.027

We examine liquidity skewness by providing an analysis of bid-ask spreads for a comprehensive high-frequency dataset comprising Eurozone countries’ sovereign bonds. European sovereign bond markets exhibited increasing positive skewness over the sampl... Read More about An analysis of liquidity skewness for European sovereign bond markets.

Financial and corporate social performance in the UK listed firms: the relevance of non-linearity and lag effects (2018)
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Adegbite, E., Guney, Y., Kwabi, F., & Tahir, S. (2019). Financial and corporate social performance in the UK listed firms: the relevance of non-linearity and lag effects. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 52(1), 105-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-018-0705-x

Using environmental, social and governance scores compiled by Reuters Datas-tream for each company's corporate social performance (CSP), we examine the relationship between CSP and corporate financial performance (CFP) of 314 UK listed companies over... Read More about Financial and corporate social performance in the UK listed firms: the relevance of non-linearity and lag effects.