Aims: The copy claim- “new” or “new improved” has enjoyed generous usage by low risk product marketers in advertising this range of products. The prevalence of this slogan has made it necessary to understand what it stands for, the purpose it is intended to achieve and buyers’ p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6297
Aims: Export trade is often considered as an engine of economic growth, and this led to attempts by governments in many countries towards promoting the export sector. The Ethiopian government has been taking measures to promote the export sector by introducing comprehensive finan...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/5124
In this paper, we examine noncooperative games with both of the collection of strategies and the ranges of the utilities for the players are lattices, which are said to be nonmonetized. Then we extend the concept of Nash equilibria of noncooperative games to generalized Nash equi...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/4618
This paper analyzes the vertical disintegration of the bank loan origination value chain. The main aim is to identify the relevant drivers which cause the emergence of brokers in the credit market which lead to vertical disintegration of the credit origination value chain. Transa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2014/6226
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