PurposeThe purpose of this study is to define FinTech, differentiating it from financial technology and use the definition to develop an industry framework.Design/methodology/approachUsing the existing literature on FinTech ...... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe paper aims to investigate the monthly and trading month effects in the stock market returns of the ASE using daily data before and after the crisis of 1999‐2001. In addition, the study seeks to consider data from both periods of the ASE, before and after the upgrade of the market (May 2001).... hiện toàn bộ
Muhammad Zubair Tauni, Zia-ur-Rehman Rao, Hong Fang, Minghao Gao
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the key sources of information, namely, financial advice, word-of-mouth communication and specialized press, on trading behavior of Chinese stock investors. The study also analyzed if the association between the key sources of information and trading beha...... hiện toàn bộ
The objectives of this study are to offer cash based funds flow components as an alternative to financial ratios for classifying the financial performance of companies; to test empirically the ability of funds flow components to distinguish between failed and nonfailed companies with special emphasis on working capital components; to analyse the empirical results and make recommendations f...... hiện toàn bộ
Robert J.Carney, Dianne R.Morrison, LiseGraham, RyanMorrison
Reports that under a third of the increasing numbers of US citizens needing long‐term care (LTC) in a nursing home pay their own fees; and that Medicaid (health programme for the poor) meets over half of LTC costs. Describes the rules applied to qualify for Medicaid LTC payments, the growth of “Medicaid estate planning” to shield the income/assets of the middle classes so that they can qua...... hiện toàn bộ
This study investigates whether cyclical turning points in the U.S. and U.K. stock markets are unevenly distributed over the year, that is, whether they are more likely to occur during certain months of the year. In examining this form of periodic seasonality, a Markov switching‐model is applied to U.S. and U.K. stock market chronologies of monthly peak and trough dates for the periods May...... hiện toàn bộ
A major problem facing the financial industry today is interest rate fluctuations. An important technique for insulating a fixed‐income portfolio from shifts in the term structure of interest rates is the method of cash‐flow matching. This method can be enhanced by allowing carry forward and borrowing from future surpluses. Unfortunately, the resulting mathematical program is non‐linear. I...... hiện toàn bộ
The continuing growth in the size and importance of very large joint‐stock companies in the modern economy has prompted a search for new theories of the firm which are more relevant in explaining the behaviour of giant enterprises. For whilst the traditional profit‐maximising theory of the firm derived from neo‐classical economics may be an appropriate generalised approximation of the beha...... hiện toàn bộ