Rukaiyat Adebusola Yusuf

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer in Finance at University of Huddersfield

Purpose – This paper examines the effect of restrictions on executive pay and high CEOs’ compensation on bank performance following the “2008 UK bank rescue policy”. Design/methodology/approach – Using the difference-in-difference estimation technique we assess the relationship between executive compensation and financial performance of rescued ban...

Purpose This research examines how shadow economy affects foreign direct investment (FDI). Design/methodology/approach The study utilizes a panel dataset including 124 nations between 1997 and 2015. Information on shadow economy, FDI and macro-economic characteristics is obtained from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)...

Dividend policy decisions in the emerging markets has continued to receive attention lately in academic research due to the differences observed between developed and emerging markets and sparse empirical evidence in this area. This research is directed towards the emerging markets in Africa. It investigates dividend decision in 299 companies liste...

Prior empirical evidence on executive compensation and risk taking remained inconclusive. Most of these researches failed to adequately consider the endogenous relationship between compensation and risk. Furthermore, most studies focused on the US non-financial firm perhaps because US CEOs have received the highest level of compensation but lately...

The Nigerian economy is highly dependent on a single commodity, this has adverse effect on its people who live in abject poverty and its economy which continues to suffer from oil price shocks, mismanagement etc. This paper examined the international oil prices in relation to agricultural contribution to Nigeria’s GDP within the period 1960 till...

Africa to a large extent has continue to remain a paradox. Apart from the landmass and its huge population, it has varieties of both solid and mineral resources. Yet a greater percentage of its people live in abject poverty. The level of development in Africa vis-à-vis other continents, particularly the industrialized nations of the world has be...

Dividend policy decisions in the emerging markets has continued to receive attention lately in academic research due to the differences observed between developed and emerging markets and sparse empirical evidence in this area. This research is directed towards the emerging markets in Africa. It investigates dividend decision in 1,463 companies...