• Discourse Analysis of the Dinar Currency System and the single currency agenda in the Gulf States 

  Mear, Fred ; Lukman, Raimi ; Aljadani, A. (Article)

  Dinar (Gold) currency system has been the focal point of monetary authorities in both medieval and modern periods. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the historical connection between the dinar currency system and ...
• The performance of estimators of the bid-ask spread under less than ideal conditions 

  Bleaney, Michael ; Li, Zhiyong (Article)
• Workplace fraud and theft in SMEs: Evidence from the mobile telephone sector in Nigeria 

  Yekini, Cecilia Olukemi; ; Ohalehi, Paschal ; Oguchi, Ifeyinwa ; Abiola, James (Article)

  Abstract: Purpose - This study investigates employee fraud within small enterprises in the Nigerian mobile phone sector. It also seeks to understand the key factors that motivate employees to engage in fraudulent behaviours ...
• Do Psychological Fallacies Influence Trading in Financial Markets? Evidence from the Foreign Exchange Market 

  Bleaney, Michael ; Bougheas, Spiros ; Li, Zhiyong (Article)
• New development: China’s debt transparency and the case of urban construction investment bonds 

  Bo, Lan ; Mear, Fred ; Huang, Jingchi (Article)
• Perceived regulator/ burden, institutional ties, financial resource capability and corporate social performance in a sub-Saharan African economy. 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Dankwah Obeng, George ; Ankomah Opoku, Robert ; Danso, Albert (Article)

  This study adopts the institutional, slack resource and social capital theories to examine the perceived regulatory burden-corporate social performance (CSP) link and the moderating effects of this relationship. The ...
• Institutional outlook of the entrepreneurial climate in Ghana 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Danso, Albert ; Ampadu, Ernest (Article)

  Purpose – Previous scholarly studies on institutions tend to create a sombre picture of institutions by ignoring to examine the antecedents of formal and informal institutions. The purpose of this paper is to overcome ...
• The financing behaviour of firms and financial crisis 

  Danso, Albert ; Adomako, Samuel (Article)

  Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the capital structure literature by examining the determinants of capital structure from the context of South Africa and to provide evidence of the effects of the ...
• Financial Literacy and Firm performance The moderating role of financial capital availability and resource flexibility. 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Danso, Albert (Article)

  Financial literacy, financial capital availability and resource flexibility are typically modelled as separate antecedents of firm performance. However, the boundary conditions for such models are less examined in a ...
• Risk-taking Propensity, Managerial Network Ties and Firm Performance in an Emerging Economy 

  Danso, Albert ; Adomako, Samuel ; Damoah, John Ofori ; Uddin, Moshfique (Article)

  The objective of the study was to examine the effect of entrepreneurs’ risk-taking propensity on firm performance and the moderating role of managerial network ties on this relationship in a sub-Saharan economy. This ...
• The moderating influence of financial literacy on the relationship between access to finance and firm growth in Ghana 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Danso, Albert ; Damoah, John Ofori (Article)

  The literature on access to finance has confirmed a positive relationship between access to finance and firm growth. Yet the boundary conditions for such linkage are less examined in the context of developing economies. ...
• Entrepreneurs’ optimism, cognitive style and persistence 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Danso, Albert ; Uddin, Moshfique ; Damoah, John Ofori (Article)

  Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effects of cognitive style dimensions on the relationship between entrepreneurs’ optimism and persistence. Design/methodology/approach – This theoretically ...
• Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, political ties, and performance: Study of entrepreneurial firms in a developing economy 

  Adomako, Samuel ; Danso, Albert (Article)

  Purpose – Regulatory environment, environmental dynamism, and political ties are typically modelled as separate antecedents of firm performance. However, the boundary conditions for such models are less examined in a ...
• Information Asymmetry, Leverage and Firm Value. Do crisis and growth matter? 

  Fosu, Samuel ; Danso, Albert ; Ahmed, Wasim ; Coffie, William (Article)

  Drawing on pecking order and agency cost theories, we assess the extent to which information asymmetry is an important determinant of firm value and the extent to which this relationship is conditional on the leverage level ...
• A new spread estimator 

  Bleaney, Michael ; Li, Zhiyong (Article)
• Decomposing the Bid - ask Spread in Multi-Dealer Markets 

  Bleaney, Michael ; Li, Zhiyong (Article)
• Sub-optimal international portfolio allocations and cost of capital 

  Kwabi, Frank ; Faff, Robert ; Marshall, Andrew ; Thapa, Chandra (Article)

  Finance theory suggests that the optimal international equity portfolio investment by home and foreign investors reduces cost of capital through international risk sharing and capital market integration. However, the ...
• Rating Based CDS Curves 

  Kolokolova, Olga ; Lin, Ming-Tsung ; Poon, Ser-Huan (Working Paper)

  In this paper, we explore the extent to which term structure of individual CDS spreads can be explained by the firm’s rating. Using the Nelson-Siegel model, we construct, for each day, CDS curves from a cross section of ...
• Systematic and Firm-specific Risks of CDS Spreads: Credit and Liquidity under Scrutiny 

  Kolokolova, Olga ; Lin, Ming-Tsung ; Poon, Ser-Huan (Working Paper)

  Using a sample of 356 U.S. non-financial firms from 2002 to 2011, we derive endogenous systematic credit risk and Credit Default Swap (CDS) illiquidity factors, and show that they dominate firm-specific and exogenous ...
• Too Big to Ignore? Hedge Fund Flows and Bond Yields 

  Kolokolova, Olga ; Lin, Ming-Tsung ; Poon, Ser-Huan (Working Paper)

  This paper investigates the information content of aggregate hedge fund flow and its predictive power with respect to bond yields. Using a sample of 9,725 hedge funds from a combined data set of five hedge fund databases ...

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