Purpose: News media play an important role in attitude towards various issues including hijab and hijab discovery. As a result, the purpose of this research was comparative review of hijab discovery news coverage in news media. Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was quantitative. The research population was the hijab discovery news in ...

Corporate defaults may be triggered by some major market news or events such as financial crises or collapses of major banks or financial institutions. With a view to develop a more realistic model for credit risk analysis, we introduce a new type of reduced-form intensity-based model that can incorporate the impacts of both observable “trigger” events and economic environment on corporate defa...

As the popularity of World Wide Web increases, many newspapers expand their services by providing news information on the Web in order to be competitive and increase benefit. The Web provides real time dissemination of financial news to investors. However, most investors find it difficult to search for the financial information of interest from the huge Web information space. Most of the commer...

Fake news on social media has engulfed the world of politics in recent years and is now posing same threat other areas, such as corporate responsibility communications. This study examines this phenomenon context firms’ deceptive communications concerning environmental sustainability, usually referred to greenwashing. We first develop validate a new method for automatically identifying greenwas...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...

Imagine an office environment in an international company in Denmark. Around you employees are going about their daily routines. They write e-mails while chatting to their neighbours, exchange a few comments on their way to the photocopier, and gather in the break to discuss their boss, holiday plans or news on a joint project. Try then to imagine the same space, only without the noise: A work ...

This paper investigates the e¤ect of country-level …nancial development on the formation of corporate groups. Since cross-country regressions are hard to interpret in a causal sense, we use exogenous industry measures to investigate a speci…c channel through which …nancial development may a¤ect group a¢ liation: internal capital markets. Using a comprehensive …rm-level dataset on European corpo...

In this study, I investigate the informativeness of aggregate equity purchases and sales by senior corporate officers and directors in a sample of 39 countries. I find that countrylevel insider trading signals are associated with future country-level market returns, controlling for other contemporaneous signals such as country-level earnings guidance and analysts’ forecasts, and risk factors su...

We develop a model to analyze how corporate governance and managerial optimism affect firms’financial reporting choices, and managers’incentives to manipulate accounting reports. Conservative accounting is advantageous because it enables boards to act on bad news and block investment ideas that are unattractive to shareholders but attractive to management. This feature of conservatism, however,...