Managerial Finance: Volume 41 Issue 4

Constrained investments and opportunity cost – evidence from Islamic funds

Mustafa Dah, Monzurul Hoque, Song Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of Shariah guidelines on the performance of the Dow Jones Islamic Index (DJIM-US). Shariah or Islamic law is a set of rules that…

Do Chinese banks perform better after IPOs?

Haiyan Yin, Jiawen Yang, Jamshid Mehran

As part of the banking reform, major commercial banks in China went through initial public offerings (IPOs) in the past two decades. Has this change in the ownership structure led…

Impact of the 2008-2009 recession on African-American owned US banks

William Lepley, Robert Nagy, Mussie Teclezion

– The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on minority-owned commercial banks in the USA.

Cross-sectional determinants of an executive performance metric index

John Robinson

Performance-based executive compensation has been well studied in the academic literature but relatively little attention has been paid to the performance metrics disclosed by…

Enterprise resource planning and efficiency: Evidence from the Korean Property/Casualty insurance companies

Jonghyun Park, Jin Park

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency of Korean insurers that have adopted enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to improve their efficiency.

Performance and efficiency of specific financial markets and instruments in the USA and emerging markets – presented papers from the Academy of Finance 2013-2014

Monzurul Hoque