17 articles in this issue
Qian Chen,Xiang Gao,Gangchen Liu
This paper utilizes Chinese stock data to provide further evidence on the power of limited attention theory in explaining post-earnings announcement drift. As retail investors prevail in China and they are easily distracted by market swings, we should exp... see more
Mai Ahmed Abdelzaher
This article aims is to verify if the Egyptian stock market has information efficiency (market efficiency assumptions) by studying the presence of time series properties for daily stock returns between 2005 and 2015. Parametric and non-parametric tests ar... see more
Zied Akrout,Hamid Bachouch,Salim Moualdi
This study examines the relationship between corruption and economic growth in Tunisia from 1992 to 2018 by focusing on the role of the discretionary power and the distortion of the public spending. To explore the relationship between the variables of int... see more
Salamatu Bellah Conteh,Yuan Yijun,Brima Sesay
In its various publications, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has vigorously advocated the need for reforming African trade policy from inward oriented strategies to outward oriented ones. While most countries in Africa have long accepted the reform ... see more
Dimitrios Kartsonakis Mademlis,Nikolaos Dritsakis
In several financial applications, it is extremely useful to predict volatility with the highest precision. Neural Networks alongside GARCH-type models have been extensively employed in the last decades for estimating volatility of financial indices. The ... see more
Yaya Keho
This study examines the relationship between real exchange rate and trade balance in Cote d’Ivoire during the period from 1975 to 2017. The study employs the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration developed by Pesaran et al. (2001) in the examinati... see more
Khalid Najeh Al-Tanbour,Talib Mohammad Awad-Warrad
This paper aims to investigate the impact of banking concentration on investment and economic growth for the Jordanian economy. It utilizes annual sample for the period between 1980 and 2018. The study examines the effectiveness of the Structure-Conduct-P... see more
El-Bourainy Mehry,Salah Ashraf,ElSherif Marwa
Financial inclusion has become the focus of economic policymaking worldwide. Increasing the accessibility of the weaker group of the society to formal financial services would not only serve at the individual level but will also benefit at the national le... see more
Dilesha Nawadali Rathnayake,Jiang Dan,Pierre Axel Louembé,Otek Ntsama Ursule Yvanna
Chinese banks have gradually expanded their financial services into overseas financial services and financial trade transactions. The financial services system is becoming more and more humanized and intelligent with the global economy's rapid development... see more
Abdullahi Osman Ali
The purpose of this study to investigate the effect of monetary policy on conventional and Islamic banks. This study deployed autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model due to its appropriateness for small sample. Bond test result indicates that there is... see more
Rajan Thavaseelan,Sooriyakumar Krishnapillai,Selvarathnam Santhirasegaram
This study examines the impact of leasing on lessee’s income, family expenditure and default rate in Jaffna District which was badly affected by the civil war from 1983 to 2009. This war has significantly affected the socioeconomic status of the people li... see more
Mai Wagdy ElHodaiby,Ahmed Elsamman
This paper examines the relation between granting central banks more independence represented in both its manifested legal charter as well as actual practices adopted and inflation in Egypt during the period from 1998-2019. To do so, this paper first look... see more
Eman Mohammad Massad,Amir Bakir
This paper assesses the impact of substituting clopidogrel with ticagelor to treat patients after an acute attack of Ischemic Heart Disease from the perspective of Jordanian MOH in its tenders, using Budget Impact Analysis (BIA). A multiple regression ana... see more
Lamees Al-Durgham,Mohammad Adeinat
The purpose of this study is to measure and compare the efficiencies for 35 manufacturing firms listed in Amman Stock exchange (ASE) in Jordan over the period 2009-2017. A panel data was collected for the firms over the nine years, the data was collected ... see more
Lela Rospida,Kamaludin Kamaludin,Mochamad Ridwan
The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of father characteristics, mother characteristics, household characteristics, child labor characteristics, and community, on work time of child labor in Bengkulu City. This research uses primary data.... see more
Marc Audi,Amjad Ali,Yannick Roussel
The inflow of foreign direct investment shows the economic and political strength of a country (Bevan & Estrin, 2004). Resources agglomeration and foreign direct investment have a theoretical and empirical relationship (Carlton, 1983; Hansen, 1987; Krugma... see more
Abdus Samad
This paper, first, obtained three categories of efficiencies, overall bias-corrected technical efficiency (OTEBC), bias-corrected pure technical efficiency (PTEBC) and bias-corrected scale efficiency (SE) of the Islamic banks of the Gulf Cooperating Count... see more