Turkey experienced an extreme political event on Friday July 15 2016 in the form of an attempted coup. This paper examines the impact of this event on the components of the Banks Index of the Istanbul Stock Exchange using event study methodology. Results show that the banks’ abnormal returns (ARs) were a statistically significant negative from +2 to +6 days with the peak on day +3 when the government declared a state of emergency. Furthermore, when the banks’ stocks are compared with the overall market, they display lower volatility during the study period. These findings evidence the importance attached to political factors and particularly political instability in shaping investment decision making.

The study is conducted to examine the impact of real effective exchange rate volatility on the trade balance in Vietnam from 2002 to 2019 by using the VAR (vector autoregression) model. The volatility of real effective exchange rate is calculated through the GARCH (1,1) model based on the quarterly data (collected by Bruegel, Europe) of the Vietnamese currency with 143 major trading partners of Vietnam. The research result shows that the current trade balance was negatively affected by the volatility of the past trade balance with the lag from 1 quarter to 4 quarters. Especially, the study finds that the volatility of real effective exchange rate with the lag of 2 reduced the trade balance in Vietnam. This is the particularity of Vietnam – a country pursuing a floating exchange rate policy under the control of the government.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the demographic and personality characteristics toward the level of student's financial literacy. We use gender, age, parental income, pocket money, and place of residence as the proxies of demographic characteristics. In addition, financial attitude, and financial behavior are considered as proxies of personality characteristics. The population of this research is the students of business/management department of Universitas Negeri Jakarta. We use 194 students as the sample which represents twenty percent of population. The result of this study shows that the level of financial literacy of the students is in middle category. We use logistic regression as the statistical tool and also found that several proxies like age, pocket money, and financial behavior had positive effects toward the level of student's financial literacy. However, other proxies like residence and financial attitude had a negative sign on financial literacy. While gender and parental income had no significant effect on financial literacy.

This study aims to examine the interplay between adjustments in risk and adjustments in capital of the Indonesian commercial banks using a simultaneous approach. In addition, the study analyzes bank specific factors determining the adjustments of risk and adjustments in capital as well as the role of capital buffer and the business cycle in moderating that adjustments. The study uses Two-Stage Least Square (2-SLS) model of panel data techniques to analyze the data of 68 commercial banks from 2005 to 2018. The results show that adjustments in risk and adjustments in capital influence each other simultaneously in a positive direction. Capital buffer levels weaken the influence of capital adjustments on risk adjustments and the effect of risk adjustments on capital adjustments. Last, the business cycle weakens the effect of risk adjustments to capital adjustments but does not weaken the effect of capital adjustments to risk adjustments. The results may suggest that the Indonesia Financial Services Authority must tighten bank supervision despite good economic conditions and ensure that an increase in bank risk must be accompanied by an increase in capital. It must pay more attention to banks with low capital buffer because these banks may speculate more by increasing their risk without raising capital adequately.

Financial development market (FMD) may have positive or negative environmental consequences. This research investigated the effects of FMD and income on CO2 emissions in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during 1980-2018. We found that income had positive effect but FMD had insignificant impact on emissions in GCC panel. Then, we tested these effects in the individual country time series and found that income had positive impact in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman and had insignificant effect in other GCC countries in long run. Effect of FMD was positive in Oman, was negative in UAE and was insignificant in rest of GCC countries. Effect of income was positive in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and was insignificant for other countries in short run. The effect of FMD was positive in Kuwait and was negative in UAE. We recommend UAE to expand the financial market and suggest Oman and Kuwait to have a check on the financially supported pollution-oriented activities.

This paper studies the awareness and influencing factors towards investment decisions among Omani working women. The main objective of the paper is to find out the level of awareness and analyze the influence of factors on investment decisions of Omani working women as respondents. The study analyzes the investment decisions taken by the respondents based on their awareness and investment pattern of Omani working women. The data was collected by distributing a well-structured online questionnaire to 200 respondents. The finding of this study shows that the women were more conscious about their investment for their child’s education and future requirement. The research also found that most influencing factors on investment decisions were the family members and professional associations on their investment decisions. Still more thoughtful investment decision yet to be done by the employed women.

There are pros and cons to the internal factors of the firm value. Some internal factors that play a role in firm value are company size, leverage, and profitability. The purpose of this study is to analyze the internal factors that influence the firm value. The research sample is all companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2012-2017. The dependent variable in this study is the firm value, while the independent variables are firm size, leverage, and profitability. The method used is the data panel. The results show that leverage had a negative and significant effect on firm value. In contrast, profitability and company size had a positive but insignificant effect on firm value. The results are in line with the allegation that the larger the company's size, the higher the investor's confidence in the company's ability to provide a return on investment. This evidence is in line with the allegations in the hypothesis that company size has a positive effect on its value.

The study was conducted to examine the determinants on the choice of a Big Four auditor of listed firms in the Vietnamese stock market. Data were hand-collected from 511 non-financial firms in the period 2015 – 2017. The research results show that ownership concentration and foreign ownership had a positive significant impact on the choice of a high-quality Big Four auditor. Meanwhile, board size was negatively associated with the selection of large auditing firms. However, there was no statistical evidence on the effect of the proportion of independent directors and CEO duality on the likelihood of choosing a Big Four auditor.

This article focuses on identifying the determinants of financial decisions of the firms. To accomplish this section, the author collects data of 110 manufacturing firms in Vietnam, over the period of 2011-2018. For the analytical methods, the author uses Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) to estimate the study model. This method has the great advantage which is able to control the potential endogenous and overcome the regression hypotheses that are violated. The study results show that financial decisions (FD) are negatively affected by the return on assets (ROA), liquidity (LIQ), and tangibility (TANG). In addition, the financial decisions (FD) are also positively affected by the firm size (SIZE). With these findings, the firm managers will have a solid basis to make financial decisions appropriately.

The adoption of EVA as a compensation and management plan, generally, impacts positively the performance of companies adopting this method. However, this paper examines whether the adoption of the EVA framework enhances the firm’s performance and gauge the long-term effects of such an adoption on the firm’s value. It also assesses whether the market reacts to the announcement of the adoption of EVA as a compensation system. Moreover, the paper fills this gap in research literature by showing whether or not EVA adoption leads to a significant increase in firm value as reflected by its market prices on the long run. Growing evidence in research indicates that the stock market does not incorporate all firm information into the stock price quickly and completely (REF). Therefore, the critique that contemporaneous association between price and EVA does not reflect reality is likely to be correct. However, this paper takes a different action. The basic contention is that although prices adjust slowly to information, long horizons are sufficiently long for markets to incorporate almost all relevant information into prices. The study sample consists of 89 US firms adopted EVA as a compensation system. It compares the performance of adopting firms to that of selected matching firms and to the market indexes, particularly, the S&P500 portfolio. Then it uses two common aggregating methods to test the event of adopting EVA by different US firms namely the CAR and BHAR methods. The results obtained, however, showed a slight improvement in the performance of companies adopting EVA within five years from the date of adoption.