This paper aims to assess the impact of capital structure on the stock returns of Egyptian firms with the purpose of providing assistance to investors when deciding between alternative investment choices. Data were collected for 75 firms listed on the Egyptian Stock Exchange over the period 2017–2022, excluding financial firms such as banks and insurance companies. Statistical techniques were conducted using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. The results revealed a sig...

Finance 

This paper aims to explore the impact of green finance on the scale of the real economy in China, measurement methods for the efficiency of green finance in serving the real economy, regional efficiency trends in China, and their influencing factors. The study is based on panel data covering 30 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) from 2011 to 2020. At the scale level, the paper conducts a baseline regression, examines the reliability of conclusions through robustness tests and inve...

Finance 

The stock exchange and its performance are important indicators of the economic health of an economy. Electricity generation capacity supports industrialisation. National electricity distribution on the other hand, however, even when mediated with electricity imports to augment a low generation capacity, can complicate both manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies’ desire to operate in an economy which is attempting to industrialise. This is compounded if generation is not matched to consum...

Electric Engineering  Business Research Methods  Finance  Economic System  Business Analysis  Engineering Management  Development Economics 

Stock markets provide firms an important source to raise equity capital to finance investment. However, some macro indicators, such as budget deficits, affect these markets and can hinder their performance. In Africa, although the performance of the Stock Exchange has been affected by budget deficits from January 2000 to December 2017, the mechanisms of these relationships have not been studied. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between budget deficits and stock marke...

Finance 

The random selection method is revolutionary for investigating sensitive issues, and its application to tax evasion in Afghanistan is still blank. Based on the random selection method of Greenberg’s improved model, this paper investigates the tax evasion rate and tax evasion characteristics of enterprises in Kabul City and conducts statistical analysis and statistical tests on 1591 questionnaires recovered. The results show that the subjective tax evasion ratio of enterprises in Kabul city is lo...

Finance  Financial Reporting 

Venture capital has become a hot topic in every economy today, as it has focused on companies with excellent growth potential and a need for large financial resources. Also in Latvia, 13 new venture capital funds have been registered for 2020, with a total fund capital of €294 million, while €172 million were uninvested. Financial resources are available in Latvia, but the question is why are there so many uninvested funds? Is it because new companies did not choose this support instrument, or b...

Business Management  Finance 

Liberalization of global trade has presented an opportunity for sub-Saharan African economies to integrate into the regional and global value chains, secure stable markets for their agri-commodities, and increase the much needed private sector investment in the agriculture sector. However, for most African economies, realizing the opportunities associated with the integration of local agriculture value chains into the global supply chain has been more of a pipe dream. Moreover, the nature and or...

Business Management  Finance  Development Economics 

Treasury is characterized as the administration of resources and liabilities to upgrade return using monetary instruments through Foreign Exchange and can be characterized as the transformation of one money into another. Customarily foreign exchange is derived from global exchange. Both the shipper and the exporter should consider trade rates to empower them to value their stocks. In whichever money the receipt is named, foreign is required. Today around 95% to 98% of this day-by-day turnover is...

Finance 

The revitalization of rural areas is primarily based on the prosperity of the industry, and the key to the prosperity of the industry lies in the cultivation of a new type of agricultural business entity. By studying the current situation of agricultural industry development and the main problems existing in the development of agricultural industrialization in Dazhou, this paper illustrates the financing difficulties of the main body of agricultural industrialization development, puts forward po...

Finance