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MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE PERFORMANCE AND FAILURE: EVIDENCE FROM AN EMERGING MARKET THE CASE OF JORDAN
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Rami Zeitun 
, Gary Gang Tian , Steve Keen
Abstract
This study investigates the impact of aggregate economic risk on a company’s performance and failure in a panel estimation using 167 Jordanian companies during 1989-2003. Our finding shows that unanticipated changes in interest rate negatively and significantly affect firms’ performance measured by ROA, which suggests that an interest rate rise increases the cost of borrowing and then further negatively affects a firm’s profit. We also found that both the production manufacturing index and Islamic credit facilities positively and significantly affect a firm’s performance. The positive and significant impact of Islamic credit facilities reflects the importance and the significance of the role of Islamic credit facilities in increasing a firm’s performance measured by ROA.
Keywords: Corporate Performance and Failure, Capital Structure, Macroeconomic Determinants
How to cite this paper: Zeitun, R., Tian, G., & Keen, S. (2007). Macroeconomic determinants of corporate performance and failure: evidence from an emerging market the case of Jordan. Corporate Ownership & Control, 5(1-1), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.22495/cocv5i1c1p2
