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Volume 3 Number 4 Year 2013

18 articles in this issue 

Veysel Avsar,Kemal Turkcan

Intermediate goods are often neglected in the empirical studies of the impact of exchange rate volatility on bilateral trade flows. Using import unit values of 58 motor vehicle products and 193 auto-parts, which are classified by the 10-digit level of Har... see more

Pags. 772 - 787  

Najeb M.H. Masoud

The main purpose of this study was to explore the causal link between stock market performance and economic growth in terms of a simple theoretical and empirical literature framework. Researchers hold diverse opinions regarding the importance of stock mar... see more

Pags. 788 - 798  

Emine Kilavuz,Hatice Erkekoglu,Betul Altay Topcu

Globalization and increased competition have forced countries to pursue more competitive policies. Today's commodities are not homogeneous and also they cannot be produced in a single country or region. it is essential for countries to focus on products w... see more

Pags. 799 - 812  

Asimiyu Gbolagade Abiola,Francis Ojo Adebayo

In recent years, impressive price of crude oil has stimulated the accumulation of foreign exchange reserves in Nigeria. However, observers have expressed fears about the channels of utilisation of the reserves, especially to other alternatives investment ... see more

Pags. 813 - 826  

Zongjun Wang,Rujira Gongkhonkwa

Many researches shed light on investigation the several variables that might be able to influence economic system, this research play an important to identify the relationship of stock indexes on interbank money market rates, we make used of a secondary d... see more

Pags. 827 - 843  

Berna Bulgurcu

This paper evaluates the financial performance of the firms in the Turkish automotive industry in the Istanbul Stock Exchange Market (ISEM) by applying the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution Methods (TOPSIS). The paper aims to ... see more

Pags. 844 - 851  

Ahlem Selma Messai,Fathi Jouini

In this study we tried to detect the determinants of non-performing loans for a sample of 85 banks in three countries (Italy, Greece and Spain) for the period of 2004-2008. These countries have faced financial problems after the subprime crisis on 2008. T... see more

Pags. 852 - 860  

Constantinos Alexiou,Joseph Nellis

The on-going and seemingly endless financial crisis within the European union in conjunction with the austerity measures implemented by a number of member states, have caused a great deal of speculation to emerge regarding the appropriate policy responses... see more

Pags. 861 - 873  

Taha Bahadir Sarac,Okyay Ucan

The monetary authority affects the aggregate demand and investment expenditure via controlling short run interest rates.  It is important to satisfy the price stability together with working interest rate channel. This study aims to investigate the v... see more

Pags. 874 - 884  

Georgeta Vintila,Stefan Cristian Gherghina

This paper examines the influence and causal relationship between board of directors independence, CEO duality, and firm value. By estimating multivariate regression models for panel data, unbalanced, for a sample of companies listed on the Bucharest Stoc... see more

Pags. 885 - 900  

Mohammad Abu Sufian,Muslima Zahan

The quest of this research paper is to look into the association between corporate ownership structure variables and corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD). Seventy annual reports for the year 2010 of non financial companies with listed Dhaka S... see more

Pags. 901 - 909  

Mehmet Ela

The informal economy is an obscure concept but it contains several economic transactions. It is a very difficult task to measure its size and dimensions, however economists have developed reliable methods to predict the size and impact of informal economy... see more

Pags. 910 - 922  

Ramzi Drissi,Tarek Ghazouani,Assaad Ghazouani

This work focuses on the study of the determinants of capital structure in the context of the "Market Timing" theory in a sample of 20 Tunisian firms listed on the Tunis Stock Exchange during the period 2004-2010. The empirical analysis shows that the res... see more

Pags. 923 - 931  

Abdelmonaim Tlidi

In this paper, we present the concept of the structural budget balance and its empirical application on the Moroccan data. For this, we choose the two-step method. In the first step, we estimate the potential production according to Hodrick-Prescott's met... see more

Pags. 932 - 937  

Feryel Ouerghi

In this paper, we try to explain how exchange politics help emerging economies to escape global financial crisis. We conduct a comparative analysis between two periods: financial crises period of the 1990’s and global financial crisis of 2007-2008. We att... see more

Pags. 949 - 963  

Ilir Binaj,Dudie Suli

This paper emphasizes the vital importance of the agriculture sector to the food security for Albania and other neighboring post-communist countries. The aim of this study is to illustrate how investments in agricultural development and food security can ... see more

Pags. 964 - 972  

Oguz Ocal

Purchasing Power Parity has most likely been one of the most investigated issues of the last decades within economic literature. The results from such studies are not consistent and not only important for policy makers and economists but also extremely im... see more

Pags. 973 - 976