Very few research projects based on bonds are conducted in Indonesia, compared to those based on stocks. In fact, investors who do not like taking risks tend to prefer investing in bonds. Several previous studies have reached differing conclusions about the effects of the variabl...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/30244
In every economy, government policy interventions are aimed at among other objectives, improving the welfare of citizenry bearing in mind the prevailing conditions. With the increase in misery index it became imperative for government to put in place policy meant to provide safet...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29604
In the face of current account imbalances, exchange rate volatility, fluctuation in lending rate and inflation, development and growth of the economy could be hampered. These calls for better informed and evaluated macroeconomic policies to take care of economic and financial cha...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29982
This paper seeks to develop a statistical model capable of forecasting the Ghanaian Cedi US Dollar nominal exchange rate. The study uses end-of-month interbank exchange rate between January, 1994 and May, 2016. We employed the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) sche...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28867
This research examines corporate governance disclosure in Nigerian and South African Banks using the un-weighted disclosure index technique. This research provides a cross sectional examination of corporate governance disclosure practices in the annual reports of 10 listed banks...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29335
This paper is a causality and impact study on financial deepening and economic growth in Nigeria for a-33-year period covering 1981 – 2013. The study used the Phillips-Peron test for unit root to ascertain whether the variables are stationary or not. The VEC residual normality te...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29411
The paper aims to investigate the price setting behavior of Vietnamese firms, by analyzing the results of a price survey. We find that it is costly and difficult for firms to discover their competitors’ prices, because of differentiation. The majority of firms review and change t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29823
This study examined the long run and causal relationship between public expenditure and economic growth in South Africa from 1980 to 2014. The authors employed co integration test, vector error correction mechanism and Granger causality test in estimation of the variables specifi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/29677
Societies which rely upon agriculture for their livelihood may face the perils of climate change, especially developing countries in the tropics and subtropics such as Nigeria in which some of the food crops are already close their peak temperature tolerance. This study was to ev...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28441
Aims: Resource based view (RBV) consists of a rich body of related theoretical tools to analyse sources of competitive advantage at firm level and it is based on the economic rent concept which explains that a firm as a collection of unique resources and capabilities. Although th...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28958
The present study is designed to compare profitability of growing crops by the selected disadvantaged smallholders living inside and outside the Polder No. 29 in Khulna district of Bangladesh. Primary data were collected from 120 respondents, of which 65 from inside the Polder 2...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28456
Downsizing popularly is a situation in which a firm reduces its workforce tremendously as a measure to improve profit by cutting down operating and overhead costs. In this study, we explored the relationship between downsizing and financial performance of five selected commercial...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28925
This study examines the contribution of the Nigerian banks to the promotion of non-oil exports. This study adopted econometric time series analysis to examine the contribution of Nigerian banks credit in relation to non-oil exports performance, assess the presence of causal relat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28754
This study focused on the assessment of leadership from the perspective of accountability in the Nigerian public sector. The study thus investigated the extent at which leaders in the Nigerian public sector are accountable for their actions and performances. The study used survey...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28124
Studying the efficiency in stock markets remains of importance as it can provide information about the possibility to make predictions concerning those markets. This paper’s purpose is to study the behavior of 17 Asian stock markets, divided in three different groups: developed,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEBA/2016/28347