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Purpose>This study contributes to existing literature by investigating bank capital structure dynamics during the Covid-19 pandemic. The role of contemporary bank-specific determinants of capital structure during this period is analyzed.Design/methodology/approach>An independent t-test is carried out to check the response of bank leverage to the crisis. Using fixed effect estimation and difference general method of moments (GMM), the impact of the shock is examined. An unbalanced quarterly data set from 2016q1 to 2020q3 of all commercial banks in Pakistan is used.Findings>The study finds that due to procyclicality of capital, during the Covid-19 crisis, the banks preempted a fall in capital and improved their capital positions. The role of bank specific variables in determining capital structure like profitability, size and competition weakened during this period. Evidence suggests that policy rate intervention by the central bank was a significant factor in capital structure decisions during the Covid-19 period. The study finds that macroeconomic shocks have significant impact on capital structure decision-making of banks which goes beyond the bank-specific factors.Originality/value>It finds evidence of a moderating role of monetary policy in capital structure decision-making which has not been previously highlighted in literature. Monetary policy is found to become an important factor deciding the capital structure of banks during the Covid-19 first 3 quarters. This study also explores the impact of Covid-19 on the bank-specific determinants of capital structure of banks.
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This study aimed to analyze the company performance on stock return in Telecommunication Companies of Indonesia from 2012 until 2020. The company performance consists of profitability ratio as proxied by return on equity, liquidity ratio as proxied by current ratio, solvency ratio as proxied by debt to equity, activity ratio as proxied by total asset turn over, and market ratio proxied by price book value. Data were collected from the Indonesia Stock Exchange website and each related company's website. This study was conducted by a quantitative study using unbalanced panel data regression analysis. This study analyzed a new balanced panel data of 104 firm-year observations from 12 Telecommunication Companies of Indonesia. The results show that profitability ratio, liquidity ratio, solvency ratio, and activity ratio failed to affect stock returns significantly. Meanwhile, the market ratio has a significant positive effect on stock return. This study can be used as an investment guide for both individual and corporate investors. The study contains the most important fundamental analysis related to the company's financial performance, based on the company's price book value.
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The present pandemic situation has led to the rise in the number of financially distressed companies in the Indian business ecosystem. Stakeholders, especially shareholders, unsecured and trade creditors who do not enjoy lien on company assets, should be extra cautious about the financial status of a company before making any investment or lending decision. The present study attempts to suggest the key indicators of corporate financial status after analysing 12 ratios from the financial statements of 162 sample companies for five financial years. The suggested key indicators can assist the shareholders and creditors in differentiating a financially distressed company from a financially sound company in the Indian industrial sector.
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Throughout out this paper, I am trying to cover a meaningful topic in the banking system - the importance of risk management for every banking institution. There is a complex diversity of risk types each bank faces and a prudential approach can assure the sustainability of the banking system and the economy itself. Furthermore, a practical approach will be presented by conducting a study case, focused on the activity of a bank operating in Romania. The results of the research are based on data provided by the bank, taking in consideration as a time frame the period 2008 to 2020 in order to analyze the effects the crises can have. In this way, we will be able to understand that risk management is a vital process, helping banking institutions protect themselves from unexpected events that could strongly affect their activity.
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The activity of each construction company in conditions of high competitiveness is exposed to a number of risks that make it difficult to maintain high financial liquidity. In order to provide the continuity of ongoing economic processes and to be able to develop, entities are forced to build optimal financial management strategies for them. Enterprises can choose between a conservative, moderate and aggressive strategy, which is largely determined by the way they manage their current assets and short-term liabilities. In the case of construction companies, it is also not without significance that they are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in the economic situation and changes in the macroeconomic environment, which imply the availability of funds. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the financial liquidity management strategy of construction sector Polish enterprises from the Podkarpackie Province in 2017–2019 and the impact of this strategy on the profitability of the surveyed entities. In order to achieve the goal, the issues related to the classification of financial liquidity and individual liquidity management strategies are discussed. The issues and the goal set determined the choice of research methods. Literature studies, the Mann–Whitney U test, cluster analysis and Ward’s method were used. The research was carried out on a group of the 10 largest construction companies from the Podkarpackie Province. The selection of entities for the research was deliberately based on enterprises that submit their financial statements to the National Court Register. The conducted research showed that small and large enterprises applied different liquidity management policies even though they operate in the same industry and region. The small entities preferred a conservative strategy, while large entities preferred a moderate strategy. The existence of an inverse relationship between the phenomenon of financial liquidity and profitability of economic entities was also confirmed.