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Financial knowledge among university students and implications for personal debt and fraudulent investments (2018)
Journal Article
Andreou, P., & Philip, D. (2018). Financial knowledge among university students and implications for personal debt and fraudulent investments. Cyprus economic policy review, 12(2), 3-23

The study is the first attempt to examine financial literacy, financial aptitude and behaviour among university students in Cyprus. The student survey covers 881 Cypriot students, aged mostly 18-24, across the five biggest universities in Cyprus. The... Read More about Financial knowledge among university students and implications for personal debt and fraudulent investments.

A Structural Model of "Alpha" for the Capital Adequacy Ratios of Islamic Banks (2018)
Journal Article
Baldwin, K., AlHalboni, M., & Helmi, M. H. (2019). A Structural Model of "Alpha" for the Capital Adequacy Ratios of Islamic Banks. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 60, 267-283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2018.12.015

The denominator of the capital adequacy ratio (CAR) for Islamic banks includes an adjustment factor, alpha, arising from the subsidisation of investment account holders’ returns using bank equity. The methodology established by the risk management st... Read More about A Structural Model of "Alpha" for the Capital Adequacy Ratios of Islamic Banks.

CEO overconfidence and the value of corporate cash holdings (2018)
Journal Article
Aktas, N., Louca, C., & Petmezas, D. (2019). CEO overconfidence and the value of corporate cash holdings. Journal of Corporate Finance, 54, 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2018.11.006

Cash holding is on average more valuable when firms are managed by overconfident CEOs. Economically, having an overconfident CEO on board is associated with an increase of $0.28 in the value of $1.00 cash holding. The positive effect of CEO overconfi... Read More about CEO overconfidence and the value of corporate cash holdings.

Political influence and financial flexibility: Evidence from China (2018)
Journal Article
Gu, X., Hasan, I., & Zhu, Y. (2019). Political influence and financial flexibility: Evidence from China. Journal of Banking and Finance, 99, 142-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2018.12.002

This paper investigates how political influence affects firms’ financial flexibility and speed of adjustment toward target leverage ratios. We find that at the macro level, firms in environments with high political advantages, proxied by provincial a... Read More about Political influence and financial flexibility: Evidence from China.

Knowledge protection in firms: A conceptual framework and evidence from HP Labs (2018)
Journal Article
Elliot, K., Patacconi, A., Swierzbinski, J., & Williams, J. (2019). Knowledge protection in firms: A conceptual framework and evidence from HP Labs. European Management Review, 16(1), 179-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12336

This paper proposes a simple framework to examine organizational methods of knowledge protection. The framework highlights a basic trade‐off between improving decision‐making and innovation through communication and mitigating security risks by impos... Read More about Knowledge protection in firms: A conceptual framework and evidence from HP Labs.