31 articles in this issue
Ibrahim Bello Abdullahi
Stable macroeconomic environment is critical to an efficient stock market and economic growth. Banking sector plays important role in sustaining the growth in Nigerian stock market. However, the effect of unstable macroeconomic factors on the sector’s sto... see more
Laila Touhami Morghem,Khawlah Ali Abdalla Spetan
The objective of this study is to analyze the pull and push factors as determination of international migration from selected Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen) to western count... see more
Emmanuel O. Eyo,Merrian A. Nwaogu,Michael E. Agenson
Efforts to revitalize agricultural credit delivery became a reality in 1977 with the establishing of the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme Fund. This study assesses the Agricultural Credit Guarantee Scheme (ACGS) under the Nigerian macroeconomic enviro... see more
Omer Ali Ibrahim,Sonal Devesh
The paper examines the socio-economic dynamics and challenges to the social insurance scheme in Oman, during the period 2002-2016, using secondary sources. The study adopts a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and develops a model to identify the determi... see more
Dahlia Nauly,Harianto Harianto,Sri Hartoyo,Tanti Novianti
This paper analyzes the influence of foreign presence on the performance of food industry in Indonesia using panel data from 28 subsectors in the period of 2011-2015. The data used is the Annual Survey of Large and Medium Industries (IBS) from Statistics ... see more
Aymen Mselmi
This paper examines the effect of financial institutions management information system migration to blockchain technology on systemic risk. Our study examines a sample of 40 financial institutions around the world. The aim is to identify to what extent th... see more
Ahmed Zain Elabdin Ahmed,Gyanendra Sisodia
Innovation Management has received a lot of attention in the last few decades, from a vital determinant of the global competitiveness of nations over the coming decade to the primary driver of economic progress and well-being. Many countries over the worl... see more
Rama Krishna Yelamanchili
In this paper we examine the co-movement and casual relationship between economic indicators and automobile index. We postulate that leading and coincident economic indicators will help explain, cause, and predict movements in automobile index. To test ou... see more
Elwasila Saeed Elamin Mohamed
This study explores the linkages between velocity of money and economic growth in Sudan using conitegration and error correction methods in the context of the quantity theory of money QTM without inclusion of institutional factors. Cointegration analysis ... see more
Abbas Umar Ibrahim,Martins Mustapha Abu
Entrepreneurship has emerged as promising new solutions to solve societal problems. This study seeks is to analyses how entrepreneurial orientation i.e. proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness autonomy, innovation, and risk-taking influence firms’ perfo... see more
Jose B. Betancourt Ramirez,Diógenes Lagos Cortés,Gonzalo Gómez-Betancourt
Ownership is usually a system assumed implicit in the dynamics of management of enterprises, but it actually deserves more attention than a periodic control in the yearly general shareholder´s assembly. Empowerment of owners is required given the magnitud... see more
Musdholifah Musdholifah,Ulil Hartono,Yulita Wulandari
Many studies have been conducted in connection with revealing the determinants of a banking crisis but nothing addresses the exact causes of the crisis. This study aims at developing a model to discern a banking crisis prediction using Crisis and Default ... see more
Zata Hasyyati,Sahara Sahara
This paper investigates the importance of human capital and each educational level on economic growth in Aceh and West Papua from 2010 to 2017. Examining the dynamic panel data using difference generalized method of moments shows there is insignifica... see more
Akhsanul Khaq,Dermawan Syahrial,Wilhelmus Hary Susilo
In an emerging market, the firm value has become an important variable for raise capital and sustainable- performance within the national economic development that conducted within Indonesian as the most economically- charged. The purpose of this study is... see more
Lukman Ayinde Olorogun,Kursat Yalciner,Abdulla Sultan Al Jaberi
Redefining the variables of macroeconomics requires the evaluation of the vital role the healthcare industry plays as an economic agent. The pharmaceutical industry constitutes a vital part of the healthcare industry. In this study, the evaluation of the ... see more
Rini Rini
This research aimed to critically review literature on the development of Zakah research from 2003 through 2019. This research employed a descriptive method and a qualitative approach. Classification is to be made into 8 categories of research, namely man... see more
Osuji Obinna
The study examined the impact of interest rate liberalization on investment in Nigeria from 1961 to 2017 using error correction model (ECM) and variance decomposition of vector autoregressive model. The empirical findings of the study showed that interest... see more
Mohammad Abdel Mohsen Al-Afeef
The study aimed to investigate the impact of SMEs funding on, GDP and unemployment, as well as the amount of funding provided by the specialized institutions, and to identify the obstacles that these projects face in obtaining funding. The study populatio... see more
Maria R.U.D. Tambunan,Haula Rosdiana,Edi Slamet Irianto
This article examines the challenges on taxing digital economic performed by Indonesian government through online marketplaces engaged as the withholder of the merchants selling their products through their platform on gross basis. Online marketplace, see... see more
Lorena Cakerri,Oltiana Muharremi,Filloreta Madani
Albania has managed to attract increasing foreign direct investments (FDI) inflows as a result of achieving political and macroeconomic stability, improving the business climate and legislation. FDI is an essential source of sustained economic growth for ... see more
Soumaya Bechir Hechmi
In this paper, we examine simultaneous relationship between respectively cash flow, dividend yield, debt, firm size and the investment. This research used 51 listed Saudi industrial firms, from 2009-2018. First of all, we have noticed that the CF has... see more
Omer Ahmed Sayed Mohamed,Faiza Omer Mohammed Elmahgop
This study investigates asymmetry in the effect of the exchange rate on the Sudanese stock market prices. We applied the Nonlinear ARDL model by Shin et al. (2014) to monthly data for the period from September 2003 to September 2019, using inflation, mone... see more
Quoc Viet Pham,Minh Thy Nguyen
Research on the impact of the presence of foreign banks on the domestic banking industry in particular is a popular topic for policy implications. The paper examines whether the presence of foreign banks improves the performance of domestic comm... see more
Rosa Ferrentino,Luca Vota
In this paper is presented a theoretical model finalized to explain the effects of the economic cycle on the real GDP growth rate of a given country's economy towards a selected business partner. In other words, the present paper expose an innovative theo... see more
Dian Wahyuningsih,Ani Yunaningsih,Muhammad Sidik Priadana,Dio Caisar Darma,Purwadi Purwadi
Efforts to alleviate unemployment and poverty must be done comprehensively, cover various aspects of community life, and be implemented in an integrated manner. The research aims to explain the relationship between variables directly, indirectly, and as a... see more
Zaher Abdel Fattah Al-Slehat
The current study investigates the effect of investment and financial decisions on stock prices and future profits in the presence of financial performance as an intermediate variable. Thus, the case of the Jordanian banking and insurance sector is analys... see more
Abdelmounaim Lahrech,Sami Zaki Alabdulwahab,Safaâ Bouayach
This study examines the existence of a correlation between the Brand Image of a country and its FDI Inflows. Furthermore, does the Brand Image of a country have a positive impact on its FDI inflows? To proceed to the object of the study, we use a panel mo... see more
Gil Cohen
This research examines whether candlesticks patterns can predict trends swings. Our results indicate that well known two days "Engulfing" pattern have failed to produce a positive gain while the "Harami" pattern has barely succeeded to do so. A more compl... see more
Hussein Salameh,Ahmed Alodadi,Khaled Alzubi
Key studies have identified the need to study the role of sovereign debt on economic growth, particularly in relation to countries with heavily oil-based status economies. This paper applies a panel vector autoregressive approach to examine the impact of ... see more
Hatice Erkekoglu,Aweng Peter Majok Garang,Adire Simon Deng
Symmetric and asymmetric GARCH models-GARCH (1,1); PARCH(1;1); EGARCH(1,1,); TARCH(1,1) and IGARCH(1,1)- were used to examine stylized facts of daily USD/UGX return series from September 1st, 2005 to August 30th, 2018. Modeling and forecasting were perfor... see more
Arief Daryanto,Diani Aliya Sofia,Sahara Sahara,Antonya Rumondang Sinaga
The international food crisis from 2007 to 2010 impacts the fluctuation of world’s food prices. Indonesia is one of the developing countries that are vulnerable to volatility in food prices because food is a necessity that is still partly imported and hen... see more