Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether socially responsible firms behave
differently from other firms in terms of financial risk using US-based firms from 1991 to 2012…

This paper examines the relationship between brand value and stock performance of companies
by using the historical stock performance of global brand stocks to test whether strong …

This study investigates the relationship between R&D investment, patent filings and financial
success for firms. Firms which have high degrees of R&D investment and large numbers of …

As switching from GAAP to IFRS causes changes to accounting quality, predictability, and
crash risk, this paper empirically investigates whether firms involved in corporate social …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess US-based firms from 2005 to 2015 to determine
whether firms with better corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance will allocate …

This study empirically investigates whether the US quantitative easing (QE) policy significantly
mitigates a firm’s default risk by focusing on firms with differential levels of corporate …

Corporate credit rating analysis is a topic of considerable academic concern, and statistical
and machine learning techniques for establishing credit ratings have been extensively …

Previous studies pay a little attention to whether the differences in national governance quality
between home and host country substantially affect foreign bank performance. Based on …

The objective of this paper is focused on the hygroscopic swelling effect on polymeric material
used in electronic package and thermo-hygro-structure coupled design and reliability …

This research discusses factors influencing hospital performance following the implementation
of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance scheme. Regression analysis showed that the out-…