This study investigates the association between Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO) and firm performance of energy industry in Saudi Arabia, from 2013-2019. The sample comprises of 21 firm-year observations. The Pooled OLS Regression results indicate that DIO was negatively associated with firm performance. The results of this study are important for energy companies’ managements in Saudi Arabia in making decisions related to managing their inventories. Further, the results of this study can be used for future research to gain a deeper understanding of the issues of inventory management and firm performance.

Bank tries to provide ease of service by utilizing information technology for safe and appropriate services in the transaction. The Bank also provides ease of service in the aspect of flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity. Customers do not need to come to the bank and wait for the long queue with e-banking. E-banking products have a wide range of derivative products, including one of the latest products in the form of mobile banking that is known as M-banking. Mobile banking is one part of the e-banking which is a banking information service via the new wireless offered by the bank using mobile technology to support smooth and ease of banking activities. Based on the above presentation, researchers are interested in researching the measurement of technology of e-banking by customer at State Bank using UTAUT to achieve competitive advantage. Respondents in this research were 834 and data analysis techniques were performed using SEM-PLS. The results show that expectancy performance enhancement, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, Condition and Security Facilitating will cause Enhancement Behavior Intention Behavior Use directly and indirectly, which means that if we want to upgrade Behavior Intention and Use Behavior, we need to increase this variable. This study gives important implications for the promotion of Use Behavior Intention Behavior through the acceptance of the technology of e-banking customers of the governmental banks in Jakarta.

This paper aims to test the success of the village financial system (SISKEUDES) using the success model of information System DeLone & McLean and trust theory. Eight variables verified in research are system quality, information quality, service quality, trust in government organization, trust in technology, usage, user satisfaction and net benefits. The research was conducted by providing questionnaires to users of SISKEUDES SARBAGITA area (Denpasar, Badung, Gianyar and Tabanan) in Bali. Sampling of research samples was based on nonprobability sampling with purposive sampling and hypothesis testing was performed using Partial Least Square. The results of the research show that the quality of information system positively affected the use of SISKEUDES. Quality of information, service quality, trust in government organization, trust in technology did not have any effect on the use of SISKEUDES. The quality of the system, information quality and trust in technology proved to be positively influential on user satisfaction. Service quality and trust in government organization had no effect on user satisfaction but user usage and satisfaction proved to be positively influential on net benefits.

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of inside debt compensation on bank performance, and identify the determinants of inside debt compensation. Using a sample of thirty European Banks during the period of 2006-2011, this paper presents evidence to support the existing literature that states that debt-based compensations plans have a significant impact on banks’ performance. The results imply that banks rely more on a debt-based compensation as leverage increases. A positive association has also been documented between debt-based compensation usage and both CEO age and bank size. The human capital of CEOs has been found to be negatively related to debt-based compensation. The empirical findings show that there is a significant negative relationship between inside debt compensation and banks' performance. Specifically, CEOs paid with a higher level of inside debt compensation were more likely to engage in lower risk-seeking behavior, such as adopting more conservative policies and investment choices. Thus, inside debt compensation plans can influence the risk-taking of managers, which may have the potential to significantly affect bank performance. Generally, inside debt compensation can reduce risk-shifting problems and lead to behavior which positively impacts debt-holders, as less risk-taking can directly contribute to a lower probability of default. The findings of this paper present important implications for many interested parties throughout the European Union, such as regulators, investors, and standards setters, whose aim is to enhance the soundness of the banking sector.

In view of the increasing development of multi-channel services distributed by banks, the customer can receive the service through an electronic distribution system. For this reason, this study focuses on examining the relationship between the dimensions of online banking quality and customer satisfaction. Data were collected through a questionnaire, which was distributed to 1,275 customers of 85 banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The data were statistically analyzed using a structural equation model with SPSS. The results show that trust and communication had significant impacts on customer satisfaction.

Turkey experienced an extreme political event on Friday July 15 2016 in the form of an attempted coup. This paper examines the impact of this event on the components of the Banks Index of the Istanbul Stock Exchange using event study methodology. Results show that the banks’ abnormal returns (ARs) were a statistically significant negative from +2 to +6 days with the peak on day +3 when the government declared a state of emergency. Furthermore, when the banks’ stocks are compared with the overall market, they display lower volatility during the study period. These findings evidence the importance attached to political factors and particularly political instability in shaping investment decision making.

The study is conducted to examine the impact of real effective exchange rate volatility on the trade balance in Vietnam from 2002 to 2019 by using the VAR (vector autoregression) model. The volatility of real effective exchange rate is calculated through the GARCH (1,1) model based on the quarterly data (collected by Bruegel, Europe) of the Vietnamese currency with 143 major trading partners of Vietnam. The research result shows that the current trade balance was negatively affected by the volatility of the past trade balance with the lag from 1 quarter to 4 quarters. Especially, the study finds that the volatility of real effective exchange rate with the lag of 2 reduced the trade balance in Vietnam. This is the particularity of Vietnam – a country pursuing a floating exchange rate policy under the control of the government.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the demographic and personality characteristics toward the level of student's financial literacy. We use gender, age, parental income, pocket money, and place of residence as the proxies of demographic characteristics. In addition, financial attitude, and financial behavior are considered as proxies of personality characteristics. The population of this research is the students of business/management department of Universitas Negeri Jakarta. We use 194 students as the sample which represents twenty percent of population. The result of this study shows that the level of financial literacy of the students is in middle category. We use logistic regression as the statistical tool and also found that several proxies like age, pocket money, and financial behavior had positive effects toward the level of student's financial literacy. However, other proxies like residence and financial attitude had a negative sign on financial literacy. While gender and parental income had no significant effect on financial literacy.

This study aims to examine the interplay between adjustments in risk and adjustments in capital of the Indonesian commercial banks using a simultaneous approach. In addition, the study analyzes bank specific factors determining the adjustments of risk and adjustments in capital as well as the role of capital buffer and the business cycle in moderating that adjustments. The study uses Two-Stage Least Square (2-SLS) model of panel data techniques to analyze the data of 68 commercial banks from 2005 to 2018. The results show that adjustments in risk and adjustments in capital influence each other simultaneously in a positive direction. Capital buffer levels weaken the influence of capital adjustments on risk adjustments and the effect of risk adjustments on capital adjustments. Last, the business cycle weakens the effect of risk adjustments to capital adjustments but does not weaken the effect of capital adjustments to risk adjustments. The results may suggest that the Indonesia Financial Services Authority must tighten bank supervision despite good economic conditions and ensure that an increase in bank risk must be accompanied by an increase in capital. It must pay more attention to banks with low capital buffer because these banks may speculate more by increasing their risk without raising capital adequately.

Financial development market (FMD) may have positive or negative environmental consequences. This research investigated the effects of FMD and income on CO2 emissions in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries during 1980-2018. We found that income had positive effect but FMD had insignificant impact on emissions in GCC panel. Then, we tested these effects in the individual country time series and found that income had positive impact in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman and had insignificant effect in other GCC countries in long run. Effect of FMD was positive in Oman, was negative in UAE and was insignificant in rest of GCC countries. Effect of income was positive in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and was insignificant for other countries in short run. The effect of FMD was positive in Kuwait and was negative in UAE. We recommend UAE to expand the financial market and suggest Oman and Kuwait to have a check on the financially supported pollution-oriented activities.