Risk exposure and corporate financial policy on the Ghana Stock ExchangeEmerald - - 2010
Godfred A.Bokpin, Anthony Q.Q.Aboagye, Kofi A.Osei
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which corporate
managers alter their capital structure in response to risk exposures on the
Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE).Design/methodology/approachA panel data covering the
period from 2002 to 2007 was employed under the framework of the seemingly
unrelated regression approach.FindingsThe paper finds that the direction and
magnitude of th... hiện toàn bộ
Dividend policy and share price volatility: UK evidenceEmerald - - 2011
KhaledHussainey, ChijokeOscar Mgbame, Aruoriwo M.Chijoke‐Mgbame
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between dividend
policy and share price changes in the UK stock
market.Design/methodology/approachMultiple regression analyses are used to
explore the association between share price changes and both dividend yield and
dividend payout ratio.FindingsA positive relation is found between dividend
yield and stock price changes, and a negative... hiện toàn bộ
Decisions on capital structure in a Zakat environment with prohibition of ribaEmerald - - 2009
JasimAl‐Ajmi, HameedaAbo Hussain, NadhemAl‐Saleh
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess and explain the leverage of Saudi
companies (53 companies) during the period
2003‐2007.Design/methodology/approachThis paper reviews two different classical
capital structure theories, namely tradeoff theory and pecking order theory, to
formulate testable propositions concerning the determinants of debt levels of
Saudi companies. It develops a number o... hiện toàn bộ
An Introduction to Credit DerivativesEmerald - - 2002
GUNTERDUFEY, FLORIANREHM
The authors provide the reader with a simple introduction to credit derivatives.
The article includes a broad overview of the market, estimates of the global
market size, and a description of the most widely used products.
Accounting for financial instruments under IAS: The European dimensionEmerald - - 2002
RichardMoore
The proposals on accounting for financial instruments developed by the Joint
Working Group look as though they will take several years to sort out. In the
meantime listed companies in Europe have to report under international standards
by the year 2005. The author looks at how companies, and in particular financial
institutions, are going to have to respond to the European deadline.
Dimension Reduction in the Computation of Value‐at‐RiskEmerald - - 2002
CLAUDIOALBANESE, KENJACKSON, PETTERWIBERG
Regulators require banks to employ value‐at‐risk (VaR) to estimate the exposure
of their trading portfolios to market risk, in order to establish capital
requirements. However, portfolio‐level VaR analysis is a high‐dimensional
problem and hence computationally intensive. This article presents two new
portfolio‐based approaches to reducing the dimensionality of the VaR analysis.