scholarly journals Testing Sectoral Herding in the Jordanian Stock Market

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Mohammad K. Elshqirat
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Market Condition ◽  
Herding Behavior ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

The main purposes of this quantitative study were to examine the existence of herding behavior among investors in Amman stock exchange (ASE) at market and sector level in addition to testing the behavior during the market rising and falling and examining whether the behavior existence is different before and after the global financial crisis of 2008. The theoretical base of the study was the behavioral finance which assumes that investors are not completely rational and they may follow others when taking investment decisions. The main enquires of the study were about the existence of herding in the Jordanian market, whether it's affected by conditions of market rising and falling, and whether it's affected by the financial crisis. A quantitative design was employed to achieve the purposes of this study which covers the period 2000 - 2018. Data were obtained from ASE website and analyzed using ordinary least squares method. The results indicated that herding is absent in the Jordanian market if tested at market level while it exists in services and industrial sectors if tested at sectors level. The financial crisis did not affect the presence of herding at market level while it did affect the behavior in services and industrial sectors. Moreover, the results revealed that market condition of rising and falling affected herding at market level but not at sectors level. It is also concluded that the global financial crisis changed the presence of herding behavior during conditions of rising and falling in market and in each sector.

scholarly journals Does higher market power necessarily reduce efficiency? Evidence from Chinese rice processing enterprises

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jiawu Dai ◽  
Yuchen Feng ◽  
Xiuqing Wang ◽  
Guang Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Cost Efficiency ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Least Squares Method ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Cost Function ◽  
Rice Processing

This study evaluates the market power and cost efficiency of China’s rice processing firms through a stochastic frontier cost function. The effect of market power on cost efficiency is tested using the two-stage ordinary least squares method and a Hausman-Taylor type instrumental variable. On average, firms in the industry have weak market power but high cost efficiency, which has been declining since the 2008 global financial crisis. Firms with stronger market power exhibit higher cost efficiency, contradicting the quiet life hypothesis. This effect is more significant for firms with weaker market power after the global financial crisis. The enhancement of market power may help save resources for improving management and efficiency for Chinese rice processing industry.

scholarly journals Remeasuring Sectoral Herding in the Financial Markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohammad K. Elshqirat
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Behavioral Finance ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Herding Behavior ◽  
Absolute Deviation ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Cross

Herding behavior was concluded to exist in some sectors and under some market conditions in the Jordanian stock market when measured using the cross-sectional absolute deviation. The purpose of this study was to retest the existence of the sectoral herding using the cross-sectional dispersion of betas and compare the results with those reached using the measure of the cross-sectional absolute deviation. Behavioral finance theory represents the main base on which this study was built. In this study, the researcher tried to answer questions related to whether herding behavior exists in the Jordanian market and its sectors if measured using cross-sectional dispersion of betas and whether results will be different from those reached using other measures. In this quantitative study, data from Amman stock exchange were used and the period covered was from 2000 to 2018. These data were used to calculate the cross-sectional dispersion of betas which was tested using t-test, Kruskal–Wallis test, Mann-Whitney U test, and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test. Results indicated that herding behavior existed in market and in each sector at the same level which was not affected by the financial crisis. Furthermore, the study revealed that herding level was the same when the market (sector) was rising and when it was falling and this similarity has not been changed by the occurrence of the global financial crisis. Finally, results indicated that herding was at its lowest level in the entire market and in the industrial sector during the time of financial crisis. These results are different from those of the study conducted in Jordan using cross-sectional absolute deviation which implies that using different herding measures yields different results.

scholarly journals The Investment in Fixed Assets Before and After the Global Financial Crisis (Empirical Study for Industry and Investment Sector in Palestine Stock Exchange)

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Tamer Bahjat Sabri
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Investment In Fixed Assets ◽  
Shed Light

This paper seeks to shed light on investment in fixed assets before and after the financial crisis that took place in 2008 and compare the two periods together in the sectors of industry and investment in Palestine Stock Exchange. The period between 2005 – 2007 was chosen to represent to the pre-crisis time and the period between 2010 -2012 was chosen to represent the post-crisis time. The population of the study consists of fifteen organizations from both sectors. To test the hypothesis of the study, the independent samples T-test was employed.The average ratio of fixed assets to the total assets of industry and investment rose from 56.2% before the crisis to 58.5% after the crisis. As for the hypotheses of the study, the findings showed no difference except for the seventh hypothesis. There was a statically significant difference in the ratio of fixed assets to equity between the listed companies that a high return on assets and those that have a low return.

scholarly journals The impact of operating leverage on the capital structure of Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed firms before and after the 2008 global financial crisis

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matabane T. Mohohlo ◽  
Johan H. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Capital Structure ◽  
South African ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Johannesburg Stock Exchange ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Operating Leverage ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Capital Structure

The financial leverage-operating leverage trade-off hypothesis states that as financial leverage increases, management of firms will seek to reduce the exposure to operating leverage in an attempt to balance the overall risk profile of a firm. It is the objective of this study to test this hypothesis and ascertain whether operating leverage can indeed be added to the list of factors that determine the capital structure of South African firms. Forty-six firms listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange between 1994 and 2015 are analysed and the impact of operating leverage is determined. The results are split into two periods, that is, the period before the global financial crisis (1994–2007) and after the global financial crisis (2008–2015). The impact of operating leverage during these two periods is then compared to determine whether a change in the impact of operating leverage on the capital structure can be observed especially following the crisis. The results show that the conservative nature of South African firms leading up to 2008 persisted even after the global financial crisis. At an industry level, the results reveal that operating leverage does not have a noticeable impact on capital structure with the exception of firms in the industrials sector of the South African economy.

Financial Early Warning System for Risk Detection and Prevention from Financial Crisis

Data Mining ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 1559-1590
Author(s):  
Nermin Ozgulbas ◽  
Ali Serhan Koyuncugil
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Risk Detection ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Risk management has become a vital topic for all enterprises especially in financial crisis periods. All enterprises need systems to warn against risks, detect signs and prevent from financial distress. Before the global financial crisis that began 2008, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have already fought with important financial issues. The global financial crisis and the ensuring flight away from risk have affected SMEs more than larger enterprises When we consider these effects, besides the issues of poor business performance, insufficient information and insufficiencies of managers in finance education, it is clear that early warning systems (EWS) are vital for SMEs for detection risk and prevention from financial crisis. The aim of this study is to develop and present a financial EWS for risk detection via data mining. For this purpose, data of SMEs listed in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) and Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) Decision Tree Algorithm were used. By using EWS, we determined the risk profiles and risk signals for risk detection and road maps for risk prevention from financial crisis.

scholarly journals The Effect of the Global Financial Crisis on the Level of Accounting Conservatism in Commercial Banks: Evidence from Jordan

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Ali Al-Hroot ◽  
Laith Akram Muflih AL-Qudah ◽  
Faris Irsheid Audeh Alkharabsha
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Accounting Conservatism ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This paper intends to investigate whether the financial crisis (2008) exerted an impact on the level of accounting conservatism in the case of Jordanian commercial banks before and during the financial crisis. The sample of this study includes 78 observations; these observations are based on the financial statements of all commercial banks in Jordan and may be referred to as cross-sectional data, whereas the period from 2005 to 2011 represents a range of years characterized by time series data. The appropriate regression model to measure the relationship between cross-sectional data and time series data is in this case the pooled data regression (PDR) using the ordinary least squares (OLS) method. The results indicate that the level of accounting conservatism had been steadily increasing over a period of three years from 2005 to 2007. The results also indicate that the level of accounting conservatism was subjected to an increase during crisis period between 2009 and 2011 compared with the level of accounting conservatism for the period 2005-2007 preceding the global financial crisis. The F-test was used in order to test the significant differences between the regression coefficients for the period before and during the global financial crisis. The results indicate a positive impact on the accounting conservatism during the global financial crisis compared with the period before the global financial crisis. The p-value is 0.040 which indicates that there are statistically significant differences between the two periods; these results are consistent with the results in Sampaio (2015).

scholarly journals Disclosure on Related Party Transactions: Evidence from Italian Listed Companies

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Bava ◽  
Melchiorre Gromis di Trana
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
Related Party Transactions ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Fairness

AbstractRecent shortcomings in corporate affairs, related to the bursting of the New Economy Bubble and the global financial crisis, have forced regulators to strengthen current rules introducing new bans and requirements, aimed at guaranteeing the substantial and economic fairness of related party transactions (RPTs). In 2010 rules regarding RPTs were completely reshaped by the Italian Regulatory Body for the Italian Stock Exchange (CONSOB Regulation no. 17221). One of the most important amendments regarded the change in the criteria by which RPTs are mandatorily disclosed to investors. This change replaces a selection process based on a qualitative with a quantitative approach, in order to reduce the subjectivity of this particular evaluation. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the disclosure of RPTs after the introduction of the new rules. Our results show that although the new rules contribute to increasing the amount of information disclosed to investors through a higher number of documents reported by companies, their percentage in relation to the overall amount is worryingly low.

scholarly journals The Effect of Leverage, Receivables Turn Over, Firm Size on Financial Performance at Automotive Companies Listed at the Indonesian Stock Exchange

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 1542-1546
Author(s):  
Thomas Sumarsan Goh ◽  
Melanthon Rumapea ◽  
Nagian Toni
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Trade War ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Turn Over

The global financial crisis that starting from end of 2019 until today and the trade war between China and United Stated has brought the effect to the slow down of Indonesian economic. The research aims at studying the effect of leverage, receivables turn over, firm size on financial performance at the automotive companies that have been listing at the Indonesian stock exchange, partially and simultaneously

scholarly journals Systemic Risk Contribution and Contagion of Industrial Sectors in China: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jianxu Liu ◽  
Yangnan Cheng ◽  
Yefan Zhou ◽  
Xiaoqing Li ◽  
Hongyu Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Systemic Risk ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Risk Contribution ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Over Time

This paper investigates the risk contribution of 29 industrial sectors to the China stock market by using one-factor with Durante generator copulas (FDG) and component expected shortfall (CES) analyses. Risk contagion between the systemically most important sector and other sectors is examined using a copula-based ∆CoVaR approach. The data cover the 2008 global financial crisis and the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The empirical results show that the banking sector contributed most to systemic risk before and during the global financial crisis. Nonbank finance became equally important in 2020, and the COVID-19 pandemic promoted the position of the computer and pharmaceuticals sectors. The spillover effect diminishes over time, but there remains risk contagion between sectors. The risk spillover trend is consistent with that of systemic risk.

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