42 articles in this issue
Embun Suryani
This study aims to examine how the relationships between a borrower and his potential lender affect the decisions of potential lender whether or not to provide or extend funds to the borrower. The author explores the available literature and original fiel... see more
Bamanga Umar,Sabri Nayan
The recent global financial crisis in 2008 have awakened discussion on the necessity for wide-ranging regulations of stock markets to rescue market capitalization from further decline and restore investors’ confidence . Despite efforts of previous policy ... see more
Adedokun Lateef Adetunji,E. Chuke Nwude,Sergius N. Udeh
The study aims to confirm the existence of positive and significant relationship between insurance penetration/activity and economic growth in Nigeria. Applying Ordinary Least Square model on Nigerian time series data for the period 1996-2015 reveals that... see more
E. Chuke Nwude,Kenneth Chikezie Anyalechi
The paper examines the impact of microfinance activities on rural economic growth and savings in Nigeria for the period 2000 – 2015. The ordinary least square regression was used as the technique of analysis. The findings show that the introduction of mic... see more
Charles O. Manasseh,Felicia C. Abada,Jonathan E. Ogbuabor,Josaphat U. J. Onwumere,Chinasa E. Urama,Okoro E. Okoro
Using modified consumer spending model and data that span the period of 1981-2011, the study examines the effects of interest and inflation rates (proxy - consumer price index) on Consumer Spending. The study extended its investigation into the causal rel... see more
Sissani Midoun,Bengana Ismail
Malaysia’s continue expanding its economy successfully and make great efforts as a leader in Southeast Asia. It has pursued a comparative equitable development path toward free trade zones (FTZ) and Digital trade zones (DFTZ) which will digitally gather u... see more
Halil Altintas,Kassouri Yacouba
This study investigates how stock market prices react to oil prices and money supply shocks in Turkey using a nonlinear ARDL approach. We establish the time series properties of the data using both conventional linear unit root tests and the procedure adv... see more
James Obilikwu
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Zerrin KILIÇARSLAN
Many countries have embraced the floating exchange rate system with the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. As a result of the transition to the floating exchange rate system, the volatilities in exchange rates have become a major problem for countries.... see more
Nicolas Afflatet
Population ageing is one of the major long-term challenges industrialized countries face. Forecasts predict that public debt is going to rise sharply for most countries due to population ageing. However, until now there has been little research on how pop... see more
Andreas Mikkelsen,Frode Kjærland
We study the performance of a high-frequency pairs trading strategy on the 100 most liq- uid stocks, in 15-minute intervals, on a small commodity dominated stock exchange (Oslo Stock Exchange) using a comprehensive dataset from January 2012 to March 2016.... see more
Joe Garmondyu Greaves
The core thesis of this paper is to investigate the long-run relationships between the domestic investment and domestic savings of the Liberian economy using 1970-2016 full sample data and 1970-2012 subsample annual time series data. This paper uses the A... see more
Ali Ihsan Akgun,Famil Samiloglu,Ali Osman Oztop
The purpose of this study is to examine empirically the relationship between economic value added (EVA), return on assets (ROA), and return on equity (ROE) with market value added (MVA) in Istanbul Stock Exchange (BIST). This study also examine the perfor... see more
Joseph I. Amuka,Fredrick O. Asogwa,Romanus O. Ugwuanyi,Ambrose N. Omeje,Tochukwu Onyechi
Both natural and human actions have contributed to high greenhouse gas emission and increased concentration of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere in the last four decades. This has led to global warming and subsequently to climate change. The adverse effect... see more
Rami Mohammad Abu Wadi,Ala' G. Bashayreh
The study aims at analyzing the effect of economic diversification on economic growth in Bahrain for the period (1980-2014). For this purpose, many indicators were developed using The Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) and five variables: real GDP, exports,... see more
Muhammad Yusuf,Surachman Surjaatmadja
Profitability is the ability of banks in generating profits effectively and efficiently The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of CAR and FDR on profitability (proxies with Return On Assets) with NPF as a moderation variable. The population ... see more
Najaf Ali,Ye Mingque
Cheng-Yih Hong,Chen-Jung Hsu,Jian-Fa Li
Maryna Chorna,Olga Shumilo,Tamila Kushnir,Hanna Zabrodska
Researching the current state and possible prospects of development of the trade industry is of considerable importance under contemporary conditions. The article considers the role of retail trade in the national economy of the country. The authors... see more
Ha Hong Nguyen
The analysis of factors affecting multi-dimensional poverty of the Khmer ethnic minority in Tra Vinh province was conducted by the use of primary data collection, direct interviews with 300 Khmer ethnic households living in 07 districts and cities in Tra ... see more
Bahaa Sobhi AbdeLatif Awwad,Allam Mohammed Mousa Hamdan
This study is aims to investigate the governance of the most important sector in the Gulf financial markets, energy sectors. It also looks into the effect of corporate governance on one of the most significant financial polices of in organizations, which ... see more
Ria Ria,Muhammad Nuryatno
This study aims to analyze the influence of Audit Quality, Loan Concentration Pattern, and Company Size to Large of Loans. This research uses quantitative method with regression analysis model by stratified random sampling based on subsector strata in man... see more
Dilek Teker,Suat Teker,Elçin Aykac Alp
The paper examines interaction between selected macroeconomic determinants such as exchange rates, stock exchange market indexes, gold prices, money supply and inflation rates. Considering a nonlinear relationships in various macroeconomic indicators, a T... see more
Daria Serogina,Hanna Bazetska
In this article the methodical foundations for the construction of a regional innovation strategy and the vectors for the formation of a new policy are presented. The necessity of conducting a regionally differentiated innovation policy based on the princ... see more
Shahrbanou Fallah,Ali Shahinpour,Ali Satari
Ferhat Citak
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between the exchange rate and tourism trade in Turkey from 1970 to 2016 by applying three Vector autoregression (VAR) models. The main findings of this paper can be documented as follows: (i) there is n... see more
Nafik Umurul Hadi,Candra Fajri Ananda,Pudjiharjo Pudjiharjo,Moh. Khusaini
Efforts of the governments of various states to raise the level of social welfare by means of developmental mechanisms, one of which is the Happiness Index (HI) as a new and complementary measurement of the outcomes of development, always experiences poli... see more
Yulizar Widiatama,Aceng Abdul Hamid,Martono Martono
This study aims to determine the competitiveness of real estate company as well as strategies that can be done company based on the level of importance and performance. The problem that often faced is about the competitiveness of business with other real ... see more
Chen-Yin Kuo
Differing from existing research focusing on the relations between default risk and equity returns, corporate governance, tax allowance, this paper investigates whether accounting conservatism (accounting conservative reporting) reduces default risk. We a... see more
Hoang Thi Mai Khanh,Nguyen Vinh Khuong
This study examines the effect of audit quality and firm characteristics on real earnings management of listed companies in Vietnam. Using the measurement of real earnings management of Roychowdhury (2006), we find that firm size has a negative effect on ... see more
Anas Alhifni,Nurul Huda,Muslich Anshori,Biyati Ahwarumi
Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia currently has many economic sectors including Islamic microfinance services such as Baitul Mal Wat Tamwil (BMT) one of Islamic Boarding School Abdussalam. The purpose of this study is to find out how the design of mall... see more
Sabastine Mushori,Delson Chikobvu
A dynamic stochastic methodology in optimal portfolio selection that maximizes investment opportunities and minimizes maximum downside risk while taking into account implicit transaction costs incurred in initial trading and in subsequent rebalancing of t... see more
Gholamhossein Barekat,Ali Moradi
Nowadays, achievement of high economic growth is the main purpose of all economic firms and is also the focus point of all activities taken to have supervision on economic affairs of developed countries. At the same time, the institutionalized approach ha... see more
Peter N. Mba,Emmanuel O. Nwosu,Anthony Orji
This paper investigates vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria using the revised General Household Post-harvest survey for Nigeria 2010. The results show that female-headed households, living in rural area and large household size have significant positive i... see more
Nadia Ahadnezhad,Behnam Azadi,Peyman Imanzadeh
The present survey aims at instigating the relationship between cash dividend ratio and the risk of stock price crash of companies accepted in Tehran stock exchange. A statistical sample of 131 companies accepted in Tehran Stock Exchange was surveyed for ... see more
Muhammad Subardin,Didik Susetyo,Syamsurijal A. Kadir,Suhel Suhel
This study aims to analyze the economies of scale and efficiency using long-term Cobb-Douglas function model to derive coefficients that require economies of scale and efficiency in the pulp industry. The economies of scale are derived from the Cobb-Dougl... see more
Zulkufly Ramly,Nurusysyifa Datuk Haji Mohamad Nordin
This paper investigates the moderating effects of Sharia Supervision Boards (SSBs) on the links between board independence and risk committee (RC) independence and Islamic banks’ (IBs) risk-taking in Malaysia from 2010 to 2015. The paper highlights four i... see more
Akram Masoud Haddad
Different studies conducted in past regarding the FDI policies in different countries and regions and its impacts on the recipient countries, most of these studies concentrated on the impact of FDI on the economic growth measured by the GDP. in this study... see more
Kemisola Christianah Osundina,Sheriffdeen A. Tella,Bolaji A. Adesoye
Syamsurijal Abdul Kadir,Azwardi Azwardi,Rulyanti Susi Wardhani,Nurkardina Novalia,Ahmad Maulana
South Sumatra Province is one of the provinces with major potential in the agricultural sector which is accounted for 16.60 percent in the GDP formation, it is necessary efforts so that the production of the agricultural sector can be maintained and impro... see more
I. G. B Surya Negara,Didik Susetyo,Syamsurijal Abdul Kadir,Saadah Yuliana
This study aims to determine the effect of affective commitment, continuance commitment, normative commitment, internal control of income accounting system, internal control of expenditure/cost accounting system, budget planning, budget implementation, re... see more
Yaya Keho
Over the past two decades, the export-growth nexus has been extensively investigated yielding to inconclusive findings. Most of existing studies used a bivariate framework ignoring the role of other relevant variables. This study re-examines the nexu... see more