Research Topics in Finance: Earning Management
1 The relationship between earning management and market liquidity 1 Are top management pays and earning management practices related? 2 Can financial crisis affect earning management practices? 3 The effect of the earning transparency on cost of capital 4 The impact of leverage on accrual-based earnings management 5 Can institutional investors exploit the accrual anomaly? 6 Accrual-based and real [...]
Research Topics in Finance | Financing / Capital Structure Choices
In this blog post, I would like to present a list of research topics related to financing or capital structure decisions. 1 Top managers experiences and firms' capital structure choices 1 Do macroeconomic factors affect the choice of debt /equity financing? How are small firms affected? 2 Supply of capital and debt-equity choices 3 Persistence in capital structure decisions? 4 [...]
How to convert numeric date to Stata date
Real-life data can come in a variety of formats. In this post, I would like to show how to convert a numeric date to Stata date. The problem Let's use an example. Say that we have date variable in the following format and we want to convert it to Stata format. +----------+ | date | |----------| [...]
T-bills rates, auction dates, bids and offer prices
Auction No. Auction Date Realized Amount 3-Months 6-Months 12-Months 1st 6/25/1998 23,623.24 15.70% 2nd 7/14/1998 7,708.23 14.62% 15.41% 16.00% 3rd 7/23/1998 2,305.36 15.74% 4th 8/5/1998 21,261.33 13.82% 15.29% 15.90% 5th 8/18/1998 19,628.07 13.71% 14.94% 15.78% 6th 9/4/1998 20,526.84 13.85% 15.39% 7th 9/29/1998 9,255.20 13.55% 15.17% 8th 10/12/1998 1,910.04 15.18% 9th 10/23/1998 10th 11/4/1998 23,149.34 14.13% 11th [...]
List of KSE-100 Companies September 2017
Name Market Capitalization Percentage in the Index Habib BankXD 140,935,188,968.64 6.49% Oil & Gas Dev. 97,945,042,453.20 4.51% United Bank 93,160,074,218.75 4.29% Engro CorpXD 92,586,550,244.85 4.27% Pak Petroleum 86,175,312,235.56 3.97% MCB Bank LtdXD 83,190,700,725.10 3.83% Hub Power Co. 80,475,458,975.12 3.71% Lucky CementXD 77,564,727,500.00 3.57% Nestle PakistanXD 58,954,454,000.00 [...]
Research Topics in Finance – Corporate Governance
1 Green governance and sustainability reporting in industries that are more likely to pollute e.g, oil, mining, gas etc 2 Do better governed firms generate more green patents? Can institutional ownership play a role? 3 Do Investors and creditors price firms social and governance risks? 4 Are family firms more concerned about governance of the firm? 5 How green growth is [...]