30 articles in this issue
Chia-Cheng Chen,Yisheng Liu,Ting-Hsin Hsu
This study aims to explore the prediction of Taiwan stock price movement and conduct an analysis of its investment performance. Based on Taiwan Stock Market index, the study compares four machine learning models: ANN, SVM, Random Forest and Naïve-Bayes. W... see more
Zbigniew Golas
The main objective of the presented paper is to examine and assess the changes in labour productivity in the EU agriculture in the context of the diversity of its level and dynamics of change underlying the identification of labour productivity convergenc... see more
Marisa Faggini,Bruna Bruno,Anna Parziale
The apparent randomness of financial market led some economists to approach chaos theory as a theoretical framework able to explain those fluctuations. This interest is because some nonlinear deterministic systems with few degrees of freedom create signal... see more
Truong Hong Trinh
This paper explores the value concept that is important in determining the relationship between demand and supply, and resource allocation in the economy. From value creation perspective, the value concept is redefined to explain value creation and value ... see more
Marc Audi,Amjad Ali
Corruption is like an epidemic that has the power to destroy a country’s socioeconomic, financial, human and political environment. It has severe consequences in developing countries. This study has examined the impact of existing human, political, financ... see more
louis Sevitenyi Nkwatoh,Yahya Zakari Abdullahi,Chika Usman Aliyu
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is committed to forming a broader monetary union by 2020. The approach of forming the union is a replica of the European-type monetary union, which is predicated on the optimum currency area (OAC... see more
Jeremy Heald
According to economists and financiers of multilateral organizations, banks and consultancies, ‘Public Private Partnerships’ are the answer to traditional inefficiencies in infrastructure procurement, providing ‘Value for Money’. While that proposition re... see more
Rajesh Kumar,Sarbjit Singh Oberoi
The study aims to examine if cash rich firms become acquirers. The study was based on the largest 100 deals completed in the year 2017. The sample deal was selected among the 9000 deals in the year 2017. The source of data was Thomson Reuters. Firms were ... see more
Mohamed Buheji
The paper provides a comparative review and analysis between the approaches of poverty and extreme-poverty solutions, emerging in literature and from Inspiration Economy Project Poverty Labs (IEP-PLs); carried over three years. The paper focuses on the di... see more
Saiful Saiful,Dea Puspita Ayu
The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of credit, liquidity, and operational risk management on performance of Indonesian banks performance. The sample used consisted of 26 conventional banks and 11 sharia banks in period 2012-2016. Th... see more
Samuel D. Barrows
The top seven Low-Cost Airlines in the EU, as ranked by 2018 passenger travel, are evaluated over a four year time frame using stock market performance in order to ascertain which airlines provide superior performance in relation to the others in the grou... see more
N. S. Nanayakkara,P. D. Nimal,Y. K. Weerakoon
Neoclassical asset pricing is built on the premise investors are rational and there are unlimited arbitrage opportunities. Behavioural implications of irrational investors led to the development of the counter paradigm, behavioural asset pricing. This stu... see more
Rama Krishna Yelamanchili
This paper aims to study predictive ability of consumer sentiment of individual stocks. We consider two proxies for sentiment. One is explicit (Index of Consumer Sentiment, ICS), second is implicit (Broad Market Indicator, S&PBSE500) and we pick 50 stocks... see more
Achmad Hilal,Samono Samono
This study shows the effect of the company micro fundamental factors on the company value registered in the LQ 45 Index (2012-2016). Company value is paid by prospective investors when a company is sold. The company is projected u... see more
Eric Mokwaro Bosire
The private sector plays a pivotal role in social economic development. A thriving business environment creates employment and generates returns that can be re-invested both domestically and internationally. Unfortunately, there has been scanty scholarly ... see more
José Mauricio Gil León,John William Rosso Murillo,Edgar Alonso Ramirez Hernández
We study the effect of public indebtedness on economic growth in Latin American economies. Our main findings indicate that a Public Debt-GDP ratio of 75% leads to a deceleration in growth. On the other hand, a ratio of 35% increases the growth volatility.... see more
Salem Kanoun
This study is an attempt to quantify the delayed fiscal adjustment using an accounting framework and to test its short and long run effects on growth in Tunisia by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model over the period 1975-2015. We find that d... see more
Dao Duy Minh,Philippe Lebailly,Nguyen Dang Hao,Ho Thi Minh Hop
By using the baseline data of Hao (2009) with 110 households, this study aimed to evaluate migration tendencies, reasons for migrations, contributions of migration and the factors affecting immigration waves. Two types of models were used, the Difference ... see more
Sirilius Seran
The life expectancy is determined by the social economic status of the population. The intended social economic status includes economic growth, inflation, Gini ratio, dependency ratio, and poverty. The effect of these variables on life expectancy can be ... see more
Samih Antoine Azar,Philip Karam
The purpose of this paper is to estimate a parsimonious model of money demand. The model relates international crude oil prices to the US money stock with the addition of a valuation adjustment. The main conometric estimation procedure is the autoreg... see more
Mahmoud Al-Rdaydeh,Joriah Muhammad,Haslindar Ibrahim
The study examined the influence of Islamic and/or conventional bank financing on the growth of firms. The data were based on 113 firms in a Middle East country – Jordan – that implemented a dual-banking system from 2007 to 2016. The finding revealed that... see more
Enni Harisa,Mohamad Adam,Inten Meutia
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of the quality of disclosure of good corporate governance (GCG), leverage, and firm size on profitability in Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia and Malaysia. The data used in this study were obtaine... see more
Jeevita Matadeen
Stock market development is now well known for the role that it plays in generating gains in terms of economic growth. It has therefore become very important to now scrutinize the main driving forces which actually cause the expansion of stock marke... see more
Sebastian Tocar
This paper presents an original approach to the investment attractiveness of the countries. The author developed an index of investment attractiveness which takes into account indicators of cultural specificity. The specialty literature offers a variety a... see more
Shih-Yung Wei,Li-Wei Lin,Su-Mei Gan
In this study, a total of 924 enterprises and 15708 companies were used for listed companies in 2001-2017, and two industries were identified as scientific and technological industries and traditional industries from the research samples, among which 556,... see more
Md. Shakib Hossain,Md. Shahin Kamal,Md. Rubaeth Halim,Nurul Mohammad Zayed
It is an attempt to estimate the consequence on welfare because of foreign direct investment (FDI) in different developing countries, mainly incorporated with the panel data having 79 countries producing over 1,343 observations from 1998 to 2014. Panel un... see more
Otniel Safkaur,Yohanis Sagrim
One of the factors that triggered a lack of environmental financial reporting was caused by the application of records that were dishonest, not yet transparent and accountable effectively by various environmental government agencies in Indonesia. This stu... see more
Otniel Safkaur,Nunuy Nurafiah,Sugiono Paulus,Muhammad Dahlan
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of earnings management on financial performance. The company's reported profit is not clear because complex interactions include three factors, namely managerial motivation, accounting standards, and th... see more
Amina Hachimi,M. My Abdelouhab Salahddine
Designed to contribute to the development of the real economy, the Islamic banking sector has grown significantly in the world during the last 40 years due to its ethical, religious and solidarity dimensions. It is set up to boost the banking system, to m... see more
Lesi Hertati,Wahyudin Zarkasyih,Harry Suharman,Haryono Umar
Human resource ethics is needed for quality decision making. Thus, the ethics of quality human resources financial reporting is produced by good human resource ethics. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Human Resource Ethics on Finan... see more