The prospects of Congress permitting bank expansion into insurance continues to concern bankers, insurers and investors. Based upon event study methods, abnormal returns to investors of banks engaging in currently permitted insurance activities are found to be significant over the 1974-1990 period. Further, disaggregated results suggest that there were significantly higher returns to more recen...

The purpose of this study is to obtain empirical evidence whether firm size has positive impact on cash holding, liquidity negative flow volatility and growth opportunity holding for manufacturing companies in Indonesia. sampling technique used was purposive Eviews 12 SV Microsoft Excel 2010 data processing. Research during the 2017-2019 period 77 then performed outliers which reduces number 63...

We study cooperation strategies for companies that continuously review their inventories and face Poisson demand. Our main goal is to analyze stable cost allocations of the joint costs. These are such that any group of companies has lower costs than the individual companies. If such allocations exist they provide an incentive for the companies to cooperate. We consider two natural cooperation s...

This article examines whether the dividendpolicy of bank holding companies is used as a signal of their quality. The study found evidence to support the dividend signaling argument-that is, that there is a positive relationship between bank dividendsper share and bank quality rating. Aaiiitionally, an inverse relationship between the dividend payout ratio and bank quality was found. Therefore, ...

Abstract Using a panel smooth transition regression framework on new proxy of the business cycle (BC) index and quarterly data US bank holding companies from 1993Q1 to 2020Q1, our results provide empirical support for theory that BC has nonlinear effect liquidity creation. We find positive highly significant creation, which not only supports pro‐cyclicality creation but also improves estimation...