32 articles in this issue
Saadah Yuliana,Bernadette Robiani,Mukhlis Mukhlis
This study aimed to analyze the effect of the investment on employment in the formal small industries in the district/ city of South Sumatera Province. The data used are secondary data obtained from the publication of the Department of Industry and Trade ... see more
Nikolaos Dritsakis,Paraskevi Klazoglou
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Ozcan Isik,Merve Kosaroglu,Ayhan Demirci
The aim of this study is to examine whether bank profitability is affected by the decisions regarding bank size and growth rate. All parameter estimates of regression models are based on fixed-effect panel regression analyses. Our data covers all banks pu... see more
Nursini Nursini,Agussalim Agussalim,Sultan Suhab,Tawakkal Tawakkal
The number of transfer funds managed by local governments has increased significantly but the decline of the poor is quite slow. The implementation of pro poor budgeting depends on the extent to which local governments formulate program planning and budge... see more
Ebru Caglayan Akay,Ömer Faruk Bolukbasi,Engin Bekar
In this study, the ‘hedonic price model’ has been used in order to determine car characteristics that affect second hand car prices. The hedonic price model is estimated with 1032 observations involving Istanbul second hand car market data. In such a hete... see more
Gorkemli Kazar,Altug Kazar,Tamer Sami Sert
In recent years, sports industry became one of the diverse industries in the World. Its inter-industry and intra-industry trade potential revitalize the national economies, especially in Europe. Therefore, this paper examines the determinants of bilateral... see more
Sanderson Abel,Khobai Hlalefang,Pierre Le Roux,Learnmore Mutandwa
The study aims to investigate the profit persistence and identify the determinants of profitability in the Zimbabwean banking sector during the period 2009-2014. The study established that banks were inefficient operating under monopolistic competition. T... see more
Farha Fatema,Zhaohua Li,Mohammad Monirul Islam
This study examines the co-integration and causality direction between trade openness, as a proxy to liberalization, and gender wage gap in the emerging economies. In this study, we applied panel auto-regressive distributed lag (PARDL) model to identify t... see more
E. Chuke Nwude,Tarila Boloupremo
The paper investigates the relationship between national income and government aggregate expenditure in Nigeria by testing the validity of Wagner’s law and Keynes’s hypothesis for the period between 1970 and 2014. More specifically, by applying time-serie... see more
Hlalefang Khobai,Nwabisa Kolisi,Clement Moyo
This study purposed to determine the long run relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Ghana and Nigeria covering the period between 1980 and 2016. It incorporated investment, exchange rates and inflation as the additional variables. To ... see more
Amir Hosseinzadeh,Behzad Davari
The research aims to explore the impact of ERP in management accounting activities. It includes a set of the developed hypotheses to evaluate how ERP training and seller support affect applying ERP systems and decision-making in five management accounting... see more
Chun-Ying Chen,Chun-Hung Chen,Ai-Chi Hsu
This study adopted a cost efficiency model to assess the operational efficiency of the banking industry in Taiwan. Empirical results show that the Bank of Taiwan, Taiwan Cooperative Bank, and First Commercial Bank have higher operational efficiency than t... see more
Mishelle Doorasamy,Prince Kwasi Sarpong
Peters (1994) proposed the fractal market hypothesis (FMH) as an alternative to the efficient market hypothesis, following his criticism of the EMH. In this study, we analyse whether the fractal nature of a financial market determines its riskiness and de... see more
Ebru Tekin Bilbil
Over the past decade, the contemporary literature has addressed the emerging factors influencing the new economy of over-the-Internet and Over-The-Top (OTT). The growth of the OTT market conveyed the need for the discussion on the best possible and most a... see more
E. Chuke Nwude,Elias I. Agbo,Christian Ibe-Lamberts
Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC) constitutes a powerful metric for discovering how efficiently a company manages its working capital. A company that possesses low CCC is more efficient as it turns its working capital over many times in one year and allows it t... see more
Imam Asngari,Taufiq Marwa,Didik Susetyo,Suhel Suhel,Syamsurijal A. Kadir
This research discusses the concentration, market structure, and factors affecting the market structure of banking industry in Indonesia. The purpose of the study is to examine and analyze the impact of IBA Policies and macroeconomic conditions on the mar... see more
Didik Susetyo,Zunaidah Zunaidah,Siti Rohima,Devi Valeriani,Abdul Bashir
The research problem is how to influence local public utility capital expenditures, the amount of household electric customers, the number of clean water customers, the number of telephone customers on the economic development of the district-city in Suma... see more
Sanaz Atarodi,Abdolmajid Dehghan,Mohammadreza Asgari
Dody Hapsoro,Tiara Rani Santoso
The increased fraud of financial statements shows the low role of external auditors in providing a quality audit report. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the length of the audit firm-client relationship, abnormal audit fees and audito... see more
Rawan F. Shubita,Taleb Awad Warrad
This study investigates the impact of international trade openness on government revenue in Middle East and North African (MENA) countries for the period of 2000-2015. More specifically, this study examines the relationship between government revenue and ... see more
Masoud Taherinia,Alirahm Baqeri
This research aimed to assess the effect of capital adequacy ratio on the ratio of the bank reserves accepted in the Tehran Stock Exchange also it was based on the Kashyap and Stein pattern (2004) and modified variables of Levintal (2005) research. Requir... see more
Almila Burgac Cil,Fikret Dulger
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among firm exports and financial constraints and the other firm characteristics as total factor productivity (TFP), foreign demand growth, market concentration and mark-up using firm-level data of T... see more
Tahar Lassoued,Arafet Hamida,Zouhaier Hadhek
The objective of this research is to study the effect of terrorism on economic growth and the mechanisms of transmission of this effect. To do this, a model of simultaneous equations was applied to panel data for a sample of eleven countries (six developi... see more
Taleb Awad-Warrad
The main objective of this research paper is to empirically evaluate the theoretical relationship between unemployment and some key macroeconomic determinants including among others trade openness policy and real economic growth for Arab countries. The ma... see more
Motavaseli Mahmood,Shojaei Saeed,Bitaab Ali,Hasti Chitsazan,Chitsazan Hasti,Ghanbar Mohammadi Elyasi
There is a consensus among scholars that access to financial sources is vital for Technology-Based Small Firms (TBSFs). Venture Capital (VC) financing is the most appropriate external financial source for them. However, VC industry is underdeveloped in mo... see more
Rosa Agustina Oyong,Rustam Didong,Sugiharso Safuan,Perry Warjiyo
This study addresses an Early Warning System (EWS) of currency crisis, as well as proposes EWS with an approach of early detection of vulnerability to crisis. Detecting vulnerabilities is a more effective step because it gives the policymakers plenty of t... see more
Luqman Hakim,Sugianto Sugianto
This research is intended to test several factors affecting profitability that can impact the value of the company in the banking industry in Indonesia. Exogenous variables used are company growth, capital adequacy ratio (CAR), nonperforming loan, loan to... see more
Benard Kipyegon Kirui,Nelson H.W. Wawire
Understanding the effect of financial constraints on firms’ real decisions requires accurate identification of financially constrained firms. Unfortunately, identifying financially constrained firms is a challenge that is yet to be resolved. Against this ... see more
Iyud` Wahyudin,Nachrowi Djalal Nachrowi
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) are an important determinant in the economic growth of a country. However, FDIs not only impact economic growth but also give side effects on income disparities. Further, the FDIs impacts on disparities depend on what sec... see more
Qais Haidary,Boris Abbey
Banks play a vital role in a country’s economic system but they are only able to operate on a going concern basis if they are managed effectively and efficiently. In this vital study, authors have used descriptive statistics and multivariate regression mo... see more
Ahmad Abu Alrub,Husam Rjoub,Mehmet Aga,Murad Bein
This study investigates the linkage between oil price index and stock price index in six GCC countries in two folds. Firstly, it studies the long-run relationship linking the stock price Index (SPI) and the oil price Index (OPI) for the time span, b... see more
Cüneyt KILIÇ,Burcu Ozcan
This study aims to analyze the effect of financial development on human capital in emerging market economies over the years 1990-2015. To this aim, two different panel data models including different proxies for human capital are constructed. Results from... see more