Szczygielski, Jan Jakub; Charteris, Ailie; Obojska, Lidia; Brzeszczynski, Janusz(Elsevier, 2024-08)
The phases of a crisis are critical to understanding its evolution. We construct an economic agent-determined machine learning-based Google search index that associates search terms with uncertainty to isolate COVID-19-related ...
Mvita, Mpinda Freddy; Du Toit, Elda(Emerald, 2024-03)
PURPOSE :
This paper aims to explore the effect of female’s presence in corporate governance structures to reduce agency conflicts, using a quantile regression approach.
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH :
The research ...
This article identifies firm-specific attributes with a substantial impact on the capabilities of listed South African companies to create shareholder value. It shows that the firm-specific attributes that contribute to ...
Ojeyinka, Titus Ayobami; Ibukun, Cleopatra Oluseye(Springer, 2024-04)
The overall objective of the Sustainable Development Goals is to end poverty in all its manifestations by 2030. To achieve this, international remittance inflows have been identified as crucial external financing, especially ...
Enslin, Zack; Du Toit, Elda; Puane, Mangwakong Faith(Emerald, 2024)
PURPOSE : Risk information provides information to enable stakeholders to make informed decisions about a company. Corporate communications should be readable and unbiased so as not to hamper disclosure usefulness. This ...
Szczygielski, Jan Jakub; Charteris, Ailie; Obojska, Lidia(Elsevier, 2023-05)
We investigate stock market uncertainty spillovers to commodity markets using wavelet coherence and a general stock market-related Google search trends (GST)-based index to proxy for uncertainty. GST reflect stock market ...
We build on and extend the literature on corporate governance and sustainability by examining whether indigenous directors (IDs, hereinafter) shape corporate environmental performance (CEP, hereinafter). Drawing insights ...
Du Toit, Elda; Delport, Pieter Willem Jacobus(Wiley, 2024-03)
Considering debates surrounding the usefulness of integrated reporting for decision-making, this exploratory study uses objective measures to investigate the quality of disclosures other than financial in the basic materials ...
Despite the increasing importance of environmental, social and
governance (ESG) factors, it is not fully understood whether
companies consider these factors when designing compensation
plans for their directors. This ...
China-Africa economic integration generally looks lucid, as evidenced by rising bilateral trade, as well as Chinese FDI, aid, and debt financing for infrastructure development in Africa. The engagement, however, appears ...
Rammala, Johannes; Toerien, Franz Eduard(AOSIS, 2024-01)
BACKGROUND : Corporate risk management theory argues that effective hedging with derivatives should reduce earnings volatility and enhance firm value. However, studies that have examined the relationship between the use ...
China is now Africa's largest trading partner, having surpassed the United States (US) in 2008. This is a vital development because trade facilitates capital injection as well as knowledge and technology spillovers in ...
Du Toit, Elda; Esterhuyse, Leana(Inderscience, 2023-08)
We explore narrative styles of 50 standalone sustainability reports for the years 2016 to 2019 published by South African mining companies. Our analyses using computer-aided narrative analysis tools reveal that readability ...
Keyword-based measures purporting to reflect investor sentiment, attention or uncertainty have increasingly been used to model stock market behaviour. We investigate and shed light on the narrative reflected by Google ...
This study empirically addresses claims about the effects of strikes on output growth, inflation, and non-agricultural employment in South Africa using a structural analysis of Bayesian VAR models with a Normal inverted ...
Aplin, Tammy; Lowies, G.A. (Gert Abraham); Mc Greal, Stanley(Cambridge University Press, 2023)
The physical and societal characteristics of home have been established as important in influencing the health and wellbeing of older adults, yet these have rarely been explored together. There is also limited research ...
BACKGROUND : Executive compensation has become a controversial topic globally. Recent and past incidents of labour unrest, including those that plagued the South African mining sector in 2012, highlighted the level of ...
PURPOSE : The purpose of this paper is to determine if there is a link between corporate shareholder value creation and economic growth. The first objective of this paper is to determine which specific shareholder value ...
The information and communication technology (ICT) revolution has brought positive spill-over effects on institutions and economies across the globe, but it has also increased the information gaps between countries. A key ...