... Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Nonperforming loans Bank profitability Financial stability Nonlinear relationships G01 G2 G3 G32 Asset quality is a key issue in banking, especially since the onset of the global financial crisis (GFC...

... of firm-specific information and thus reduces firm-specific stock price variation (Morck et al., 2000). Behavioural finance Financial crisis Country risk National culture International financial markets Stock market volatility G01 G14 G15 F63 H1. Synchronized...

... and performance is unconvincing.” Financial crisis African ECOWAS Panel models Banks profitability C23 E44 F20 G01 G21 L23 This study examines the impacts of the financial crisis on the determinants of bank profitability. Previous studies (Dietrich and Wanzenried, 2011 ; Flamini et...

...: β₄=β_{5). The results show that the small news effects are different to large news effects, at a 1 per cent significance level, in all cases and for all periods. Non-linear Stock markets Crises Inter-relations G01 G11 The increased inter-relationship}...

..., and market risk. Heba Abou-El-Sood can be contacted at: h.abouelsood@foc.cu.edu.eg 28 04 2016 30 08 2016 30 08 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only G21 G28 G30 G32 M41 G01 Board decisions and firm...

...] . Short-sale ban Crisis Option Liquidity Price discovery Informed trading G01 G12 G14 G18 The effect that short-sale restrictions (SSR) have on market efficiency has been studied extensively in the literature. In general, the results of these studies indicate that short-sale...