Empirical evidence

The interconnection between the oil price and gold price with the stock market index has generated an epic amount of discussion for ages. While a numerous number of prior studies on different economies have drawn mixed findings, empirical findings for the relationship of those three vital economic indicators in ASEAN countries remain limited and open room for further research to call for better macroeconomic policy stances.

14p viormkorn 27-09-2024 4 2   Download

This study examines the effect of globalization and tax competition on tax revenue in Southeast Asian countries. Figures show the sign of tax competition in Southeast Asian countries. We evaluate the effects of tax competition on tax revenues of Southeast Asian countries with the globalization KOF index. The analysis shows interdependence among the tax revenues of Southeast Asian countries in the context of economic integration.

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This study will investigate the determinants of firms’ investment with the focus on the influences of macro and regional factors on asset investment of SMEs in four provinces of Northwestern Vietnam, including Hoa Binh, Son La, Dien Bien, and Lai Chau. The study will provide new empirical evidence on the drivers of SMEs’ asset investment in poor localities in developing countries.

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This paper is set out to explore the performance of the APT in the Vietnamese market in the context of the U.S - China trade war 2018. Testing on the listed stocks in Vietnamese stock exchanges provides a certain impact of the trade war on the asset pricing models’ effectiveness. Specifically, the trade war casts the effects on the prediction power of economic forces on the expected returns of the Vietnamese stocks. This is the first study to bring light into the investigation of the validity of the APT in the Vietnamese economy in the wake of the trade war.

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The objective of this study was to examine the characteristics and elements that affect e-wallet users' overall satisfaction in Hanoi, Vietnam, with 175 surveys collected in Hanoi. Each of the five major factors affecting user satisfaction has been detailed, starting with the least important and working toward the most important, including “Means”, “Reliability”, “Service Capacity”, “responsiveness” and “empathy”.

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The study provides empirical evidence from a sample of 438 employees working in small and medium-sized enterprises in Vietnam through assessing the appropriateness of the measurement model and testing the linear structural model PLS- SEM. Research results show that the components of the green transformation leadership style have a positive influence on green human resource management.

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This study was conducted to identify and evaluate the impact of determinants on the quality of auditing accounting estimates of auditing firms in Vietnam. Data were collected from questionnaires sent to 217 subjects, including auditors; audit assistants; and audit managers of 27 auditing firms in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

23p minhnn0302 10-04-2024 16 5   Download

Work experience is a key factor in hiring decision of managers. However, empirical evidence that early life experience matters is very limited. This thesis fills in the gap by examining how work experience affects managerial performance and managerial style in mutual funds. Using a sample of Chinese fund managers, we find performances and styles vary across managers of different career backgrounds. Notably, managers of research and especially government backgrounds show higher risk adjusted returns while taking on less systematic risk.

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This study extends the limited finance literature on return and volatility spillover effects in China and emerging markets. It investigates the market interdependence and volatility transmissions between the Chinese stock market and other financial markets, including both domestic and international markets. The significance of this study arises from the importance of China due to its large economic scale and financial influence. To understand the behaviour of the Chinese stock market, this research has four different perspectives.

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The rationale for this study is that the social enterprise sector provides an important locale in which to situate research that aims to identify the impact of ICTs on development. Recognising the complex dynamics and range of actors involved in this diverse and emerging area of development practice, this study chooses to focus on the social enterprise sector. It is specifically concerned with mapping the external influences, use and impact of ICT on social enterprises in Cambodia.

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This thesis examines the capital structure choice of Australian firms with an emphasis on the impact of market timing and liquidity considering 1438 available firms for the period, 1997 to 2005. The relationship between capital structure and its determinants is the main focus of this thesis, with four empirical analyses. These analyses are all conducted within the Baker and Wurgler (2002) and Hovakimian (2006) models with both pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effect panel analysis.

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Initial public offerings (IPOs) underpricing is a widely researched area in finance literature. Yet, empirical evidence demonstrating and theoretical models explaining differences in underpricing across countries have remained an enigma in academia for a long time. This thesis consists of three independently interconnected essays that explain differences in underpricing observed across the Group of Twenty (G20) IPO markets.

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This study contributes to the existing literature in several ways. First of all, this is the first study to explore the changes in disclosure practices driven by IFRS adoption in terms of HCE. Although some prior literature anticipates these changes, so far no study has provide the empirical evidence.

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This thesis contributes to three distinct areas. Firstly, it explores whether risk management has become the fifth arm of working capital. Secondly, it tests if the determinants of working capital affect the profitability of an organisation. Finally, it investigates the influence of working capital on corporate ratings. There is a significant contribution to the finance literature in these three different areas. In addition, there are methodological advances in this area.

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This thesis comprises eight chapters. Chapter 1 provides the standard introduction found in most theses and evident in the foregoing. Then a secondary study in Chapter 2 serves to discuss the background to licensing advisers in Australia, Chapter 3 will develop the conceptualised theoretical framework for examining the legitimacy of the current AFSL-AR licensing model. Details of the empirical survey and method of quantitative and qualitative analyses closes Chapter 4. Chapter 5 explains the scope, difficulties encountered and results of the study.

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This thesis contributes to the existing literature in the following ways: First, presenting a systematic study with empirical evidence on the functioning and quality of corporate governance and its impact under the contractual form of FMC. Second, this research represents a step forward from the extant studies focusing on how board characteristics and composition in fund companies by investigating a wider range of relevant governance mechanisms that affect board effectiveness which other studies have not attempted.

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The increasingly important role played by family firms in China’s fledging capital market calls for a better understanding of how it works and is governed. This study aims to explore how corporate governance issues in family firms are tackled from the perspective of investor protection. The thesis addresses the question by first presenting theoretical models showing the relations among investor protection, family governance, and agency costs in family firms.

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This research investigated the report choices used for corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure and the determinants of CSR disclosure of firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET). Since 2014, firms listed on the SET have been required to disclose CSR in either an annual registration statement or a separate report called a sustainability report. It was, therefore, noteworthy to examine the choices these firms chose in the first year of disclosure.

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Diversification is usually seen as a strategy to improve bank risk and performance until the recent financial chaos, which has raised many concerns about this claim. Despite the growing number of empirical studies on the relationship between diversification strategy and banks' profitability, researchers have not yet been able to find a general agreement. One of the reasons is that the results for each country are different from the others. The well-founded evidence is mixed between countries and regions.

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The main objectives of this dissertation are: To review the literature on innovation and the determinants of innovation especially knowledge sources for innovation at firm level; to analyze the current situation of innovation of manufacturing firms in Vietnam; to identify the knowledge sources that manufacturing firms in Vietnam use for innovating and test the relationship between those knowledge sources and innovation outcome; to propose several solutions for manufacturing firms as well as policy makers in order to foster innovation in Vietnam based on empirical evidence.

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