This paper examines whether banks that sell loans in the secondary market respond differently to a monetary policy innovation from those that do not engage in loan sales. We answer this question by measuring the policy response while controlling for loan sales activities. Using a...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6255
This paper identifies the key determinants of economic growth in Laos, using annual time-series data from 1980 to 2010. To avoid the problems of non-stationary associated with time series analysis, the Dickey-Fuller unit roots statistic is checked in order to ascertain whether th...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT//2014/3822
Aims: Our study investigates different aspects of the Strategic Success Paradigm [1] and examined the relationships among MNCs’ environmental turbulence, MNC strategy aggressiveness, MNC capability responsiveness, and MNC corporate social responsibility (CSR) posture in Palestine...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/4753
This paper deals with reducing the risk of stockholders investment by implementing portfolio management in Bangladesh’s stock market. The Markowitz portfolio model derives the expected rate of return for a portfolio of stocks and a measurement of the expected risk, which is the s...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5958
Aims: The paper empirically investigated the Real Effective Exchange Rate and agricultural productivity in Nigeria. Study Design: Case study. Methodology: The cointegration technique with its implied ECM was applied to estimate the data which covered the period between 1980 and 2...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5914
Aims: We apply several theories to the problem of greenhouse gas emission and energy consumption reduction goals at large public institutions. We discuss the history of the movement for reduced greenhouse gas emissions at universities and introduce a case university. We test our...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3971
This paper analyses the effectiveness of loan delinquency management strategies used on farmers in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to; assess the management strategies aimed at reducing loan delinquency; compare the extent of loan default among lending insti...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4301
Aim: The paper aimed at examining the asymmetric effect of oil price shock on exchange rate and domestic investment in Nigeria. Study Design: Country case study. Place and Duration of Study: Nigeria. Time series data ranging from 1970-2010. Methodology: This study utilised elabor...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4098
The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of firm size and profitability on the extent of corporate social disclosures by Oil and Gas firms in Nigeria. A sample of twenty quoted companies selected using the simple random sampling technique was utilized for the study. S...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5147
Aims: This paper analyzes the role of house prices in monetary policy transmission mechanisms in Taiwan using structural VAR (SVAR). The discussion of the role of asset prices in the monetary policy transmission mechanism can help us determine the effectiveness of monetary policy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4835
The ever-expanding technological innovations have stirred a phenomenal transmutation of the face of businesses across the globe, especially the mobile telecommunications sectors resulting in the introduction of mobile money transfer services (MMTs). This paper sought to analyse t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4670
The effect of budget deficits on the economy is one of the most important unresolved issues in public economics and macroeconomics. Based on a simple loanable funds model that describes the relationship between budget deficits and long-term interest rates, this study empirically...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5146
This article specified a semiparametric stochastic frontier function using generalized additive models that accounts for random noise in the sample data. We estimated the parameters of the model by applying the generalized spline-smoothing approach to measure technical efficiency...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5149
Aims: The study empirically analyzed consumers’ preference for mobile telecommunication attributes in Nigeria, using conjoint analysis. Study Design: Survey design, through 200 dedicated mobile phone users, were conveniently sampled in Yaba and Akoka environs of Lagos State for t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3427
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of China’s monetary policy on stock price in different economic backgrounds by constructing the SVAR (Structural Vector Auto Regression) based on the standard VAR (Vector Auto Regression). The results show that: (i) In different economic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4527