International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 14 Issue 3

Board interlocking and firm performance: the role of foreign ownership in Saudi Arabia

Allam Hamdan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what effect, if any, foreign ownership has on the relationship between board interlocking and firm performance.

Labor unemployment insurance and firms’ future performance

Weiwei Wang, Kenneth Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the association between unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and firms’ future performance as well as the association between UI…

Macroeconomic uncertainty, corporate governance and corporate capital structure

Yee Peng Chow, Junaina Muhammad, A.N. Bany-Ariffin, Fan Fah Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to examine how corporate governance moderates the relationship between macroeconomic uncertainty and corporate capital structure.

Hedge fund variables and short-run SEO returns

Robert Martin Hull, Sungkyu Kwak, Rosemary Walker

The purpose of this paper is to determine if hedge fund variables (HFVs) are associated with short-run daily buy and hold abnormal returns (BHARs) for a 30-day window around…

Executive pensions, compensation leverage, and firm risk

Reilly White

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the structure of both CEO and non-CEO executive compensation affects the overall risk of a firm. The author focuses on the…

Non-linear approach to Random Walk Test in selected African countries

Emmanuel Joel Aikins Abakah, Paul Alagidede, Lord Mensah, Kwaku Ohene-Asare

The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the weak form efficiency of five African stock markets (South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana and Mauritius) using various tests to assess…