{"title":"Does Bank Diversification Affect Funding Cost? Evidence from the US Banks","authors":"D. Tran","doi":"10.21315/aamjaf2020.16.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2020.16.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate how diversification affects the U.S. bank holding companies’ funding cost. We document consistent evidence of a lower deposit rates for banks that engage more in non-traditional banking activities. The quantile regressions which dissect the behaviour of banks at the right tail of deposits costs distribution, point out the leveraged effect of diversification is more pronounced with lower-deposits costs banks. The study also suggests diversified banks enjoy lower funding cost during the crisis. Our study is of interest to regulators and policymakers.","PeriodicalId":44370,"journal":{"name":"Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48316402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Country Characteristics Affect the Complementary Level of Financial and Tax Aggressiveness?","authors":"N. Rachmawati, S. Utama, Dwi Martani, R. Wardhani","doi":"10.21315/aamjaf2020.16.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2020.16.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to examine whether two country characteristics—book-tax conformity and law enforcement—affect the complementary level of financial and tax aggressiveness. Previous studies have produced inconclusive results for the relationship between financial and tax aggressiveness. This study fills the gap by examining the country-level determinants of the complementary level of financial and tax aggressiveness. It also develops a new measure of the complementary level of financial and tax aggressiveness. Using a sample of firms from 15 countries in East Asia and Europe from 2014 to 2016, this study finds that firms from countries with higher book-tax conformity and stronger law enforcement tend to have a lower complementary level of financial and tax aggressiveness. In an additional test, this study shows that in countries with lower book-tax conformity, the effect of law enforcement on the complementary level of financial and tax aggressiveness is stronger than in countries with higher book-tax conformity. These results suggest that country characteristics influence managers’ decisions to either present financial statements and tax reporting aggressively at the same time or not.","PeriodicalId":44370,"journal":{"name":"Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44881032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessing Bank Stability in Malaysia in the Framework of Distance to Default","authors":"A. Saha, N. Ahmad, H. E. Lim, Siew Goh Yeok","doi":"10.21315/AAMJAF2019.15.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/AAMJAF2019.15.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"Post global financial crisis central banks worldwide have been crucially concerned about ensuring financial stability in any economy. Malaysia is not an exception where Bank Negara Malaysia has been playing a pivotal role in ensuring continuing safety and soundness of the financial system of the country. In the present paper, we assess the stability of domestic banks in the country using the Distance to Default (DTD). No such analytical study on Malaysian banking has so far been reported in the literature. Using the data of the financial performance of banks during the period 2001 to 2014, their stock price information on daily basis and the corresponding KLCI index, and the daily yield of Malaysian Government Securities, we compute and analyse the DTD of banks at the individual level and also assess the contribution of individual banks to systemic risk. We also assess the robustness of the framework by analysing the cases of two banks which were merged during the period 2001 to 2010. The findings of the study are expected generate extensive research interest in this arena and would also be beneficial to the investor population at large who would be keen in knowing the underpinning of the systemic stability in the country.","PeriodicalId":44370,"journal":{"name":"Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67727370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Comparative Analysis of Fixed Income Unit Trust Funds versus Equity Unit Trust Funds in Malaysia","authors":"N. Abdullah, A. Shari","doi":"10.21315/aamjaf2019.15.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2019.15.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the relationship between fixed income unit trust funds and equity unit trust funds for the period of January 2006 to October 2012. The performance of both types of funds are then compared to the market benchmark to determine whether they outperformed the market benchmark. The performance comparisons are made over several categories of equity sample namely overall equity, growth equity and value equity. The Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) is used as the market benchmark for equity funds and fixed income funds with additional market benchmark of Maybank 12-month fixed deposit. A total of 31 fixed income funds and 57 overall equity funds which are made up of 37 growth equity and 20 value equity are evaluated by using three performance measures namely Treynor index, Sharpe index and Jensen index. The results indicate that the mean returns of equity funds are higher than the fixed income funds and market benchmark of KLCI. Nevertheless, when equity funds are compared against fixed income funds using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test, Sharpe and Treynor ratios produce significant results. This means that the performance of fixed income funds varies from the performance of equity funds. However the Jensen index produces insignificant result. When the sample categorised into different equity types of funds, the finding shows a conflicting result. The Sharpe and Jensen ratios indicate insignificant results for growth equity funds sample. This means that the performance of fixed income funds is not different from that of equity funds in comparison to Treynor that shows a significant result. As for the value equity, Sharpe, Treynor and Jensen produce results that are significant. This means that the performance of fixed income funds varies from that of equity funds.","PeriodicalId":44370,"journal":{"name":"Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43547178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural Change Analysis of Active Cryptocurrency Market","authors":"C. Y. Tan, Y. Koh, Kok Haur Ng","doi":"10.21315/aamjaf2022.18.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2022.18.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Motivated by the large frequent price fluctuation and excessive volatility observed in the cryptocurrency market, this study adopts Bai and Perron’s structural change model by incorporating the trading volume and autoregressive variables to examine the number and location of change points in daily closing price, return and volatility proxied by the squared return of Cryptocurrency Index, Cryptocurrency Index 30, and the top 10 cryptocurrencies ranked according to market capitalisation. Results show that the structural changes occur very frequently for the price series, followed by squared return and return series which were consistently observed between December 2017 to April 2018. In addition, the results also reveal that the two cryptocurrency indices may not be beneficial as an indicator to reflect the whole cryptocurrency market for the entire studied period as these two indices do not display consistent structural change in contrast to the top 10 cryptocurrencies that might have significant implications for modelling the cryptocurrency data.","PeriodicalId":44370,"journal":{"name":"Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47115190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fund Characteristics, Fees, and Expenses Structure Between Conventional and\u0000 Islamic Mutual Fund","authors":"S. Fikri, M. Yahya","doi":"10.21315/aamjaf2019.15.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2019.15.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44370,"journal":{"name":"Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2019-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47078788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}