Purpose: This research aims to analyze the influence of three crucial financial factors in companies, namely Board Education Background Accounting, Market Capitalization, and Leverage on the ...Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Methodology/approach: The type of research used in this study is quantitative research with an associative causal approach. The analyzed data consists of financial technology banks in Indonesia from 2017 to 2022, along with data from conventional companies to compare the performance of both types of banks. The number of companies used is six FinTech and four conventional banks that compare the performance of the two types of samples. Findings: The research results provide valuable insights for FinTech stakeholders, assisting in making informed decisions regarding financial management and growth strategies. Practical and Theoretical contribution / Originality: This research contributes to the academic literature in the field of corporate finance and sustainable growth, especially within the rapidly evolving FinTech context. Research Limitation: Despite the fact that this study considers three main variables, there is still a possibility that other factors influencing the SGR are not taken into account.
We show that higher institutional ownership causes firms to pay more dividends. Our identification relies on a discontinuity in ownership around Russell index thresholds. Our estimates indicate that ...a one-percentage-point increase in institutional ownership causes a $7 million (8%) increase in dividends. We also find differences in shareholder proposals and voting patterns that suggest that even nonactivist institutions play an important role in monitoring firm behavior. The effect of institutional ownership on dividends is stronger for firms with higher expected agency costs.
Fossil fuel divestment campaigns urge investors to sell their stakes in companies that supply coal, oil, or gas. However, avoiding investments in such companies might impose a cost on the investor in ...terms of foregone potentially profitable investments and reduced opportunities for portfolio diversification. We compare financial performance of investment portfolios with and without fossil fuel company stocks over the period 1927–2016. Contrary to theoretical expectations, we find that fossil fuel divestment does not seem to impair portfolio performance. These findings can be explained by the fact that, so far, fossil fuel company stocks do not outperform other stocks on a risk-adjusted basis and provide relatively limited diversification benefits. A more pronounced performance impact of divestment can be observed over short time frames and when applied to less diversified market indices.
•Fossil fuel divestment has been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions.•We assess costs to investors by comparing investment portfolio performance.•Fossil fuel stocks do not outperform and provide limited diversification benefits.•Fossil fuel divestment would not have reduced performance over 1927–2016.
The role of natural resources in promoting economic and financial activities is important for attaining country's economic growth. The study used different natural resource rents, domestic ...investment, trade openness, per capita income and their resulting impact on financial development in order to assess ‘financial resource curse’ hypothesis in Pakistan by using a consistent time series data from 1975 to 2017. The study employed ARDL-Bounds testing approach that is fairly worked under different order of integrated variables and displayed short- and long-run parameter estimates. Further, the study used VAR decomposition analysis to generate Impulse Response Function (IRF) and Variance Decomposition Analysis (VDA) to assessed forecasted variance and error shocks over a next 10 year time period. The results show that, in the short-run, initial level of forest rents and oil rents supported the ‘natural resource abundance’ hypothesis, as both the rents substantially increases country's financial development, however, in the long-run, there is a negative relationship of coal rents, forest rents, natural gas rents, and oil rents with domestic credit to private sector (DCPS), which confirmed the ‘natural curse hypothesis’ in a country. The domestic investment in the form of gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) largely supported the financial activities with all given resource rents in the models, while country's per capita income unable to signify its positive impact on DCPS under the resource curse environment during the study time period. The other results show that coal rents and oil rents decreases broad money supply whereas natural gas rents decreases market capitalization to validate ‘financial resource curse’ hypothesis in a country. The results of IRF and VDA approach confirmed the viability of both the competing natural resource theories (i.e., financial resource curse and financial resource blessing hypothesis) under financial development in the next 10 year time period.
•The study evaluated ‘financial resource curse’ hypothesis in Pakistan.•Financial development is shown by domestic credit to private sector, M2, and market capitalization.•Coal, natural gas, oil, and forest rents are used as indicators of natural resource abundance in a country.•The study verified ‘financial resource curse’ hypothesis in all of the four stated natural resource rents.•The domestic investment, trade, and continuing economic growth significantly affect country's financial development.
Individualism and Momentum around the World CHUI, ANDY C.W.; TITMAN, SHERIDAN; WEI, K.C. JOHN
The Journal of finance (New York),
February 2010, Volume:
65, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This paper examines how cultural differences influence the returns of momentum strategies. Cross-country cultural differences are measured with an individualism index developed by Hofstede (2001), ...which is related to overconfidence and self-attribution bias. We find that individualism is positively associated with trading volume and volatility, as well as to the magnitude of momentum profits. Momentum profits are also positively related to analyst forecast dispersion, transaction costs, and the familiarity of the market to foreigners, and negatively related to firm size and volatility. However, the addition of these and other variables does not dampen the relation between individualism and momentum profits.
We identify a new channel for the transmission of shocks across international markets. Investor flows to funds domiciled in developed markets force significant changes in these funds' emerging market ...portfolio allocations. These forced trades or "fire sales" affect emerging market equity prices, correlations, and betas, and are related to but distinct from effects arising purely from fund holdings or from overlapping ownership of emerging markets in fund portfolios. A simple model and calibration exercise highlight the importance to these findings of "push" effects from funds' domicile countries and "co-ownership spillover" between markets with overlapping fund ownership.
A strand of literature on Innovation suggests that discretionary expenses, such as research and development (R&D), and advertisement expenses have mixed effects on the value of the firm. To provide ...recent evidence from a developing country context, specifically the Indian context, this article explores the relationship between discretionary expenses and the value of a firm. With the help of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy prowess database for 680 Indian firms belonging to 41 industries over a 15-year period covering 5,171 firm years, we find that both R&D and Advertisement Expenditure have a positive effect on the market value of a firm. Our results suggest that the effect of R&D on the value of firms is more in smaller and younger firms when compared to large and mature firms, respectively. We also find that the return to R&D investment is more in non-manufacturing firms.
JEL Codes: G10, L2, O31, O32
This paper investigates the impact of negative screening on the investment universe as well as on financial performance. We come up with a novel identification process and as such depart from ...mainstream socially responsible investing literature by concentrating on individual firms' conduct and by studying a much wider range of issues. Firstly, we study the size and financial performance of fourteen potentially controversial issues: abortion, adult entertainment, alcohol, animal testing, contraceptives, controversial weapons, fur, gambling, genetic engineering, meat, nuclear power, pork, (embryonic) stem cells, and tobacco. We investigate an international sample of more than 1,600 stocks for more than twenty years. We then analyze the impact of applying negative screens to a market portfolio. Our findings suggest that the choice for negative screening strategies does matter for the size of the investment universe as well as for risk-adjusted return performance. Investing in controversial stocks in many cases results in additional risk-adjusted returns, whereas excluding them may reduce financial performance. These findings suggest that there are opportunity costs to negative screening.
We study trends and drivers of long-run stock market growth in 17 advanced economies. Between 1870 and the 1980s, stock market capitalization grew in line with GDP. But over subsequent decades, an ...unprecedented expansion saw market cap to GDP ratios triple and remain persistently high. While most historical stock market growth was driven by issuances, this recent expansion was fueled by rising equity prices. We show that the key driver of this structural break was a profit shift towards listed firms, with listed firm profit shares in both GDP and capital income doubling to reach their highest levels in 146 years.
The city cluster of the Yangtze River Delta is a highly dynamic and competitive economic region in China. The integration of the market across the 27 cities is crucial in driving economic growth in ...the area. This paper aims to provide policymakers with recommendations on promoting regional integration, enhancing the structure, and improving overall performance. By utilizing the benefits and resources of each community more effectively, greater economic gains can be achieved. The findings of this study can also be applied to other Chinese towns or business areas. Market integration is a necessary foundation for regional integration, as it enables the seamless movement of goods and factors throughout the region while simultaneously reducing entry barriers and supporting the creation of a unified market. Unfortunately, the "vassal economy" model has impeded the region's economic growth. The integration of regional markets is crucial for economic growth. However, it is equally important to create industrial clusters with central towns as their hubs. The Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration is a prime example of one of six world-class city clusters demonstrating how market integration can result in high-quality economic progress. The paper's primary discoveries are threefold: firstly, there has been a progressive elevation in the level of market integration among the 27 cities within the Yangtze River Delta city cluster, characterized by increasingly intimate connections concerning trade, investment, and population mobility. Secondly, this heightened market integration exerts a catalytic impact on the real economic growth of the Yangtze River Delta city cluster, particularly concerning regional industrial restructuring, transformation, and upgrading. Finally, market integration is poised to expedite the industrial division of labor and synergistic development between the cities, thus promoting a concentration of advanced manufacturing and new industries in the central cities and furthering the development of profitable industries in the central individual cities.
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