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
and incorporating these contributions into a traditional financial structure,
characteristics are outlined and placed into a framework that describes the
FinTech industry.Findi... 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).Design/methodology/approachThis paper examines the calendar effects in the
Greek stock market ret... hiện toàn bộ
Muhammad Zubair Tauni, Zia-ur-Rehman Rao, Hong Fang, Minghao Gao
Purpose The 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 behavior is influenced by investor personality.
Design/methodology/approach The aut... hiện toàn bộ
This essay analyses alternative strategies for a firm to deal with exchange
risk. “Profit maximising” and “risk minimising” strategies are examined as
extreme alternatives. The former requires successful exchange rate forecasting,
the latter is based on avoiding any impact of unexpected exchange rate changes
on the firm. This strategy is illustrated using three “typical” firms as
examples: the occ... hiện toàn bộ
Traces China’s foreign debt policy from 1978 to the present and compares its
short and long term debt structure with Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the
Phillippines and Thailand (i.e. five countries suffering from the Asian economic
crisis). Points out that in the 1980s, when all six had high growth rates, China
had a severe financial crisis while the others did not: a situation reversed in
the 1990s... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to detail how the adoption of enterprise
resource planning (ERP) systems creates major distortions in the corporate
decision‐making process.Design/methodology/approachThe approach is to focus on
the distortion in the capital – budgeting process of corporations emanating from
the rigidity of ERP software. The rigidity negatively influences decision‐making
because... hiện toàn bộ
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to show how recent capital gains affect
ex‐dividend stock pricing. Traditional models assume that investors are
motivated to sell a stock before its ex‐date to avoid paying higher taxes on
dividends. However, if a stock has appreciated significantly, stockholders have
an offsetting incentive to delay the realization of capital gains by continuing
to hold the sto... hiện toàn bộ
Mục đíchMục đích của bài báo này là kiểm tra trực tiếp giả thuyết thông tin về
các thông báo bổ sung vào chỉ số S&P 500 bằng cách điều tra mức độ mà thông tin
vượt ra ngoài tám tiêu chí đã nêu của Standard & Poor's ảnh hưởng đến quyết định
bổ sung.Thiết kế/phương pháp/tiếp cậnBằng cách phân tích một mẫu các công ty bổ
sung vào S&P 500 và các ứng cử viên đủ điều kiện trong giai đoạn 1987-2004, bài
... hiện toàn bộ
This study documents the amount of time it takes for Initial Public Offerings
(POs) to make the transition from underperformance to meeting or exceeding the
return for firms of similar size. The study looks at yearly holding period
lengths of 1 to 10 years. The results of this study show that if purchased on
issuance date, IPOs need to be held for over five years in order to make a
return equal to... hiện toàn bộ