...Ali Albada Purpose This study aims to examine the potential of Sharia status as ex ante information to signal the quality of an issuing firm by improving the decision-making process of potential investors when assessing initial public offerings (IPOs) in an environment where information asymmetry...

..., foreign investments may be impacted more than domestic investments (Julio and Yook, 2016 ; Choi et al., 2020). Various reasons include higher fixed sunk costs, restraining regulations on fund repatriation, the information asymmetry problem and the quality of institutions in the host country all...

... to information asymmetry that prompts firms to send signals to the capital market. Information asymmetry has been studied in terms of issue-specific (maturity and issue size) and issuer-specific (firm size, growth, profitability, leverage) variables. Two control variables were included to capture the years under...

...Ahmad Hakimi Tajuddin; Rasidah Mohd Rashid; Karren Lee-Hwei Khaw; Norliza Che Yahya Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of Shariah-compliant status and the presence of information asymmetry on investors’ demand for initial public offerings (IPOs) in Malaysia...

...Abiot Mindaye Tessema; Samy Garas; Kienpin Tee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether disclosure as required by Islamic Financial Service Board Standard No. 4 (IFSB-4) influences information asymmetry among investors in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries...

... transparency, appropriateness, and timeliness to reduce information asymmetry and enhance governance disclosure. Even though population consists of only five full‐fledged banks but it is comparatively better than the recent studies. For instance, Umaru et al. (2011) surveyed four Islamic banks...