29 articles in this issue
Marco Mele
This paper will prove, through a financial and econometric model, a different estimation approach on the Chinese’ basket peg. In particular, this study proposes a new system for calculating the numeraire in exchange rates of the major ... see more
Alphonse Kumaza,Yuanqiong He
Social responsibility engagement and business financial performance have received countless authorial observations. While many support the assertion that social responsibility imposes financial strains on the enterprise’s incomes, little proof exists to s... see more
Namitha K. Cheriyan,Lazar Daniel
The liquidity crunch arising out of volatile market conditions is a significant concern for investors across the globe. The trading activity in the market is an important attribute determining the liquidity as well as the volatility of any stock market. G... see more
Inten Meutia,Mohamad Adam
This study aims to identify the effectiveness of financing provided by conventional and Islamic banks to Micro Small Medium Enterprises in the agricultural sector in South Sumatra. The study uses multiple linear regressions to identify the effect of finan... see more
Abdul Bashir,Zulkarnain Ishak,Imam Asngari,Mukhlis Mukhlis,Dirta Pratama Atiyatna,Ichsan Hamidi
This study to analyze the performance and strategy of fisheries in Indonesia. The data used in this study is secondary data during 2011-2016. Source of data from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) and Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS). ... see more
Daniel Velázquez-Orihuela,Juan-Roberto Vargas-Sánchez,Zeus Salvador Hernández-Veleros
In the specialized literature, there are two versions of the effect of public investment on growth. One of them states that the relationship between them is positive; the other states that there is optimal public investment. This paper proposes an analyti... see more
Khaled Aljifri,Hafiz Imtiaz Ahmad
This study examines empirically the preferred valuation techniques used by UAE investment analysts in the financial and non-financial sectors. The study uses a questionnaire and interviews to address its ten research questions. Descriptive and nonparametr... see more
Mohammed Lazreg,Kamel Si Mohammed
The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between democracy and corruption using a Dynamic Generalized Method of Moments (DGMM) during the period 1984-2013 in 13 MENA countries namely Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, M... see more
Necla Ilter Kucukcolak
Major benefits of the organized commodity markets will be efficient price formation, transparency improvement, decline in transaction cost and accumulation of expertise in the financial and agricultural sectors. An active spot market is one of the major c... see more
Fauzie Bustami,Jerry Heikal
This study estimates and analyzes the factors affecting profitability performance as well as the implications for stock returns on real estate and property sectors listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during the period of 2007-2014. Of the 45 list... see more
Elchin Suleymanov,Elvin Alirzayev,Mammad Talibli
Since foreign investments are crucial in developing economy and breaking poverty chain, the majority of developing countries, which suffer from the lack of investment savings in countries, enter the competition in attracting investments. In the competitio... see more
Dilesha Nawadali Rathnayake,Diby Francois Kassi,Pierre Axel Louembé,Gang Sun,Ding Ning
This paper examines the impact of corporate ownership structure and ownership concentration on the corporate performance of listed firms in China. Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Two-Stages Least Squares (2SLS) models are used to capture the relationship ... see more
Nusrat Jahan
This study evaluated the productivity performance of 29 listed commercial banks by employing Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI) of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) over the period of 2011-2015. Evaluation of productivity performance reveals that Islamic ba... see more
Yao Thibaut Kpegli,Bator Anne
In Africa, there are many countries that rarely know the change of their president. The aim of this paper is to study the economic and non-economic determinants of number of power alternation in Africa over the period 1990-2015. The poisson regression is ... see more
Shu Yang,Elyas Abdulahi,Muhammad Afaq Haider,Muhammed Asif Khan
This paper empirically verifies the drivers of economic growth of resource abundant Sub Sahara African countries (SSA) and examines the extent to which they are typical or unique to the resource curse hypothesis. To this end, using an econometric model of... see more
Ferchichi Jihene,Dabboussi Moez
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of CEO compensation on corporate tax avoidance. It is also investigated the moderating effect of corporate governance, especially the audit quality on this association. We use a sample of 67 firms listed ... see more
Shinta Rahma Diana,Agus Hidayat,Astri Rafikasari,Ida Musdafia Ibrahim,Farida Farida
This study aims to assess the feasibility of remote sensing activities in Indonesia by using the net present value (NPV) approach. Although these remote sensing activities have been going on for a long time in Indonesia, the economic assessment of the use... see more
Noor Sembiring
Wood potatoes is the third most important food crop after rice, with the conditions of the study area suitable for developing wood potatoes will be very easy to get benefits, besides those wood potatoes has a fairly low planting and maintenance costs, whi... see more
Doddy Ismunandar Bahari,Hermanto Siregar,Sahara Sahara,Handewi Purwati Saliem Rachman
Generally, the aims of this research was to analyze the role and the inputs allocation of public education and the factors which affected educational inequality. Using panel data in 33 provinces during 2010 to 2016 which then analyzed by stochastic fronti... see more
Kalai Lamia,Kasraoui Naziha
The aim of this paper is to study financial integration between emerging MENA countries and developed countries. We study short-term price series dynamics using Johansen's (1991) multivariate cointegration test to determine the number of cointegration vec... see more
Eric M. Bosire
The role governance structures play in economic growth and development cannot be over emphasised. According to the World Bank, indicators that define governance include; Government effectiveness, control of corruption, political stability and absence of v... see more
Nguyen Thi Hai Ninh,Philippe Lebailly,Nguyen Mau Dung
This paper attemps to understand about gender division of labor in pig farming households and to identify factors affecting that division. Using primary data collected from 40 pig farming, we find that female laborers play more important role in pig produ... see more
Yassin Eltahir,Hussien Omer Osman,Osama Azmi Sallam,Fethi Klabi
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Yaya Keho
This study tests the dynamic relationship between government and household consumption in Cote d’Ivoire. The ARDL bounds test and Johansen approach are employed to annual data covering the period 1970 to 2016. The results reveal a long run relationship be... see more
Abdelkarim Yahyaoui,Majid Ibrahim Al Saggaf
Many studies on the link between finance and growth, in Arab gulf countries, have suggested however, without demonstrating it, that the relationship between the two spheres goes through the country’s specific institutional structure. Nevertheless, this re... see more
Sinan Abdullah Harjan,Min Teng,Sayyed Sadaqat Hussain Shah,Jamal Hadash Mohammed
The purpose of this study is to investigate whether politically connected firms play a significant role in cost of debt financing. To emphasize this evidence, we empirically analyzed the panel data of the period 2011-2013. We found that politically connec... see more
Tharwah Shaalan
The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between the market power variables and the bank concentration of Islamic banks registered in Bahrain Stock Exchange, using the HHI index of loans, in addition to other variables such as bank solvency, ... see more
Mardalena Mardalena,Ardi Adji,Suhel Suhel,Sri Andaiyani
Indonesia as emerging market economics provide some policies that leads to pro-growth, pro-poor and pro-job. This study aims to analyze which sectors are able to stimulate economic growth, household income, and labor absorption in South Sumatera Province.... see more
Reza Moosavi Mohseni,Jiling Cao,Wenjun Zhang
This paper investigates the impact of the international and domestic volatility of monetary policy shocks on the economy of New Zealand using the spectrum-SVAR approach. We enrich the SVAR model by using time-varying global and domestic volatility as endo... see more