item: #1 of 246 id: ijefi-10313 author: Hussain, Rai Imtiaz; Abidin, Noor Saadah Zainal; Ibrahim, Faridah; Joginder, Jaspal Singh title: Accruals in the Prediction of Forthcoming Cash Flows in the Companies Listed at Pakistan Stock Exchange date: 2020-09-04 words: 8733 flesch: 48 summary: Australian Accounting Review, 27(2), 118-128. Umoren, A., Umoffong, N. (2018), Cash flows and earnings in predicting future cash flows: A study of deposit money banks in Nigeria. Prior studies (Hertzberg et al., 2010; Agana et al., 2015; Namazi and Rezaei, 2016) called the capacity and capability of cash generation as the primary measure for decision making and investors always looked-for firms with free flow cash flows. keywords: accounting; accruals; cash flows; dechow et; earnings; et al; khansalar; non; operating; prediction; trading; trading accruals cache: ijefi-10313.pdf plain text: ijefi-10313.txt item: #2 of 246 id: ijefi-10335 author: Rafique, Nayar; Khawaja, Idrees title: Cost of Educational Deprivation: A Case of Pakistan date: 2020-09-04 words: 15211 flesch: 45 summary: Education Overall Urban Rural 0 35 44 32 5 60 72 54 8 83 97 74 10 103 118 92 12 128 143 114 14 159 175 140 16 198 213 173 18 276 288 240 Appendices Table 6: Education wise labor force (urban) Labor force by level of education 25-59 years (urban) Education level % age of population Total Employed Unemployed 0 14.06 2,246,171 2,141,392 104,778 5 25.45 4,065,792 3,876,133 189,659 8 21.54 3,441,146 3,280,625 160,521 10 19.85 3,171,158 3,023,232 147,927 12 9.44 1,508,097 1,437,748 70,349 14 6.78 1,083,146 1,032,620 50,526 16 2.40 383,415 365,529 17,885 18 0.48 76,683 73,106 3577 15,975,608 15,230,386 745,223 APPENDICES Appendices Table 5: Education wise labor force (rural) Labor force by level of education 25-59 years (rural) Education level % age of population Total Employed Unemployed 0 22.57 6,178,899 5,985,011 193,888 5 34.88 9,548,959 9,249,321 299,638 8 20.25 5,543,762 5,369,804 173,958 10 14.71 4,027,098 3,900,731 126,367 12 4.47 1,223,734 1,185,334 38,400 14 1.96 536,581 519,744 16,837 16 0.75 205,325 198,882 6443 18 0.40 109,506 106,070 3436 27,373,864 26,514,897 858,967 Appendices Table 4: Education wise labor force (all areas) Labor force by level of education 25-59 years (all areas) Education % age of population Total Employed Unemployed 0 18.30 7,933,454 7,639,872 293,583 5 30.14 13,066,356 12,582,827 483,529 8 20.90 9,060,612 8,725,318 335,294 10 17.29 7,495,597 7,218,218 277,379 12 6.97 3,021,649 2,909,831 111,818 14 4.38 1,898,827 1,828,560 70,267 16 1.58 684,965 659,617 25,348 18 0.44 190,750 183,691 7059 43,352,210 41,747,934 1,604,276 Appendices Table 8: Education wise proportion (%) of labor force (urban) Education wise proportion (%) of labor force (urban) Education Current profile Case 1 Case 2 Case 3 Case 4 Case 5 Case 6 0 14.06 7.03 0 0 0 0 0.00 5 25.45 32.48 39.51 0 0 0 0 8 21.54 21.54 21.54 61.05 0 0 This method by considering the age earnings profiles with reference to education level, attempts to finds the discount rate which equates the stream of educational benefits with the flow of educational investment at a given point in time. keywords: age; areas; capital; case; cost; development; education; human; income; individuals; labor force; level; pakistan; pkr; population; returns; schooling; total cache: ijefi-10335.pdf plain text: ijefi-10335.txt item: #3 of 246 id: ijefi-10351 author: Arif, Unbreen; Sohail, Muhammad Tayyab title: Asset Pricing With Higher Co-Moments and CVaR: Evidence from Pakistan Stock Exchange date: 2020-09-04 words: 8351 flesch: 55 summary: The empirical findings suggest that portfolio returns impacted through inclusion of higher moments and CVaR and generated higher returns over the benchmark portfolio. Empirical findings indicate that the inclusion of higher moments and CVaR have strong influence on portfolio returns as compare to mean variance portfolio and benchmark portfolio. keywords: cvar; international; journal; mean; moments; optimization; pakistan; portfolio; returns; risk; skewness; stock; variance cache: ijefi-10351.pdf plain text: ijefi-10351.txt item: #4 of 246 id: ijefi-10415 author: Al-Nimri, Ade; Altarawneh, Yaseen title: Understating the Impact of Economic Factors on Stock Yield: Jordanian Stock Market Case date: 2020-11-04 words: 2984 flesch: 48 summary: The study also indicated that the ability to explain the variance in market stock yield is not very different when using a ratio of realized earnings per share and the book value of the market value of the shares together, than using ratio of earnings per share by itself. The results also showed no relationship between the deficit and surplus of balance of payments and stock yield, as well as no relationship between the level of gross domestic product (GDP) and the stock yield in Amman Stock Market in Jordan. keywords: market; stock; stock yield; study; yield cache: ijefi-10415.pdf plain text: ijefi-10415.txt item: #5 of 246 id: ijefi-10426 author: Khon, Seyhak; Seenprachawong, Udomsak title: The Public Demand for a Dengue Fever Vaccine: A Contingent Valuation Survey in Phnom Penh, Cambodia date: 2020-11-05 words: 7736 flesch: 53 summary: Recently, there have also been reports of dengue fever vaccine that has been produced and approved for use in some countries (Lee et al., 2015). Household members need to be injected with three doses of dengue fever vaccine 6 months apart. keywords: demand; dengue fever; effectiveness; fever vaccination; fever vaccine; pay; program; public; respondents; vaccination; vaccination program; vaccine; willingness cache: ijefi-10426.pdf plain text: ijefi-10426.txt item: #6 of 246 id: ijefi-10436 author: Feda, Rana Abdelhafeez title: The Impact of Credit Ratings on Firms' Capital Structure date: 2020-09-04 words: 7411 flesch: 57 summary: The research design was formulated to investigate the effect of credit rating changes on capital structure and related decisions using the empirical frameworks of the Partial Adjustment Model done by Flannery and Rangan (2006). The purpose of this test was to evaluate the effects of credit rating changes on the changes of market and book levels of financial leverage, with respect to assets and other control variables such as sales, EBITDA, z-score, and M/B. Table 4 presents two types of results with control variables and without control variables. keywords: capital; credit; debt; downgrade; equity; financial; firms; leverage; ratings; structure; upgrade cache: ijefi-10436.pdf plain text: ijefi-10436.txt item: #7 of 246 id: ijefi-10515 author: Gunawan, Arwan; Yadiati, Winwin; Suharman, Harry; Sofia, K. Poppy title: Linkages to Budgetary Control and Budgetary Absorption Performance date: 2020-09-12 words: 10550 flesch: 48 summary: Thus it can be said that budget control tends to lower the intensity of budget looseness that is expected to impact the increase in budget absorption performance in the context of its budgetary quality. Hertati et al. (2020) empirical study indicates that the requirements of external authorities have been conducted regarding the budget of local government in Indonesia, there proved to be budget authorization activity and budget validation that must be guided in the prevailing laws and regulations, in Where budget control is associated with budget absorption performance that has been accommodating the incremental budget (input-based). keywords: absorption performance; accounting; budget; budget absorption; budget control; budgeting; data; economics; evaluation; government; indonesia; international; journal; management; model; organization; performance; public; research; sector; value cache: ijefi-10515.pdf plain text: ijefi-10515.txt item: #8 of 246 id: ijefi-10516 author: Widarti, Widarti; Desfitrina, Desfitrina; Zulfadhli, Zulfadhli title: Business Process Life Cycle Affects Company Financial Performance: Micro, Small, and Medium Business Enterprises During The Covid-19 Period date: 2020-09-04 words: 7633 flesch: 45 summary: Business Process Life Cycle on the Financial Performance of Covid-19 Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Business Companies Lazaridis, (2007) states that the success of a company’s financial performance can be measured in the business process life cycle in order to improve organizational structure and culture and increase customer and company business value. Business processes aim to achieve financial performance that is effective, efficient and increases the productivity of an organization. keywords: business; business process; company; covid-19; cycle; enterprises; international; journal; life; management; medium; micro; performance; process; processes; research; results cache: ijefi-10516.pdf plain text: ijefi-10516.txt item: #9 of 246 id: ijefi-10546 author: Lin, Dan; Lin, Lu title: Does Corporate Governance Affect the Critical Corporate Policies such as Dividend Policy? date: 2020-11-04 words: 5697 flesch: 48 summary: In terms of four dimensions of corporate governance index, the shareholding and compensation index is the most important determinant of dividend payouts. Also, among four dimensions of corporate governance index, including board composition index, shareholding and compensation index, shareholder rights index, and disclosure index, the shareholding and compensation index is a critical determinant of dividend policy. keywords: board; cash; dividend; dividend policy; firms; governance; index; payouts; policy; quality cache: ijefi-10546.pdf plain text: ijefi-10546.txt item: #10 of 246 id: ijefi-10554 author: Susuawu, Daniel; Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Amoh, John Kwaku title: Does Service Quality Influence Tax Compliance Behaviour of SMEs? A New Perspective from Ghana date: 2020-11-04 words: 5069 flesch: 44 summary: In this light, this study was conducted by surveying some selected SMEs in the Madina, Makola, Tema and Kaneshie municipalities to assess the effects of tax service quality of Ghana revenue authority (GRA) on the compliance behaviour of SMEs in Ghana to gain fresh insights into the phenomenon. With respect to tax service quality proposed by Parasuraman et al. (1988), responsiveness refers to the agility with which tax authorities respond to the enquiries and needs of taxpayers. keywords: behaviour; compliance; compliance behaviour; gra; quality; service; smes; tax; tax compliance; taxpayers cache: ijefi-10554.pdf plain text: ijefi-10554.txt item: #11 of 246 id: ijefi-10610 author: Chaouachi, Olfa; Dhaou, Imen title: The Day of the Week Effect: Unconditional and Conditional Market Risk Analysis date: 2020-11-04 words: 3620 flesch: 59 summary: Model 4 is a conditional model relating stock market returns to world market risk. S&P/TSX Composite index is applied to calculate the return of Canadian stock market and DWG index is used to compute the return of the world market portfolio. keywords: day; effect; market; risk; stock; week; week effect cache: ijefi-10610.pdf plain text: ijefi-10610.txt item: #12 of 246 id: ijefi-11 author: Sejdini, Imelda title: Wage Tendency in Albania; The Reaction to the Global Economic and Financial Crisis date: 2011-07-19 words: 3456 flesch: 55 summary: This wage growth is due to two main reasons: first of all, these sectors were distinguished by low wages although the difficult work they do and secondly, considering them with priority in wage growth, the government has projected to fight the corruption. Wage growth will continue at the same time with the wages indexation in the same percentage of the annual inflation index2. keywords: average; growth; minimum; sector; wage; wage growth; year cache: ijefi-11.pdf plain text: ijefi-11.txt item: #13 of 246 id: ijefi-1123 author: Viziniuc, Madalin title: Survey on Financial Market Frictions and DSGE models date: 2015-04-16 words: 6467 flesch: 51 summary: t t t t t t−( )+ j t j t j t, , , �= + +1 (9) keywords: bank; capital; entrepreneurs; households; j t; models; t t; value cache: ijefi-1123.pdf plain text: ijefi-1123.txt item: #14 of 246 id: ijefi-11271 author: Tarawalie, Abu Bakarr; Jalloh, Talatu title: Determinants of Capital Flight in Post War Sierra Leone: An Empirical Analysis date: 2021-04-13 words: 7943 flesch: 48 summary: Using dynamic panel data estimation method, the findings indicate that capital flight is largely driven by corruption, lag capital flight, external debt, foreign direct investment, and macroeconomic uncertainty. Utilizing the OLS, Fixed effects, Random Effects, and Seemingly Unrelated Regression Models, the findings reveal that lag capital flight, external debt, foreign direct investment, real GDP growth rate and uncertainty are the main determinants of capital flight. keywords: capital flight; corruption; debt; determinants; economic; granger; journal; leone; rate; result; run; sierra; study cache: ijefi-11271.pdf plain text: ijefi-11271.txt item: #15 of 246 id: ijefi-11299 author: Dedehouanou, Sessinou Erick Abel; Kane, Abou title: Spillover Effect of Official Development Assistance on Sectoral Economic Growth in West African Economic and Monetary Union Countries date: 2021-05-14 words: 9549 flesch: 55 summary: Several forms of interactions between WAEMU countries could promote aid spillover effects. Next, the analysis of aid spillover effects requires the use of a spatial model. keywords: aid; countries; country; development; economic; effect; growth; log; sector; spillover; tertiary; union; value; variables; waemu cache: ijefi-11299.pdf plain text: ijefi-11299.txt item: #16 of 246 id: ijefi-11300 author: Mukhlis, Mukhlis; Robiani, Bernadette; Atiyatna, Dirta Pratama title: Potential Agglomeration of Small Food Industry in Palembang, South Sumatra Indonesia date: 2021-05-14 words: 5275 flesch: 43 summary: Small food industries should be able to create efficient economies of scale, so that small food industries can move in an unfragmented market (Kuncoro, 2013). In this study, the search about the location of small food industry agglomeration in Palembang was conducted through literature studies and direct observations in the field. keywords: agglomeration; concentration; development; district; economic; food; index; industries; industry; palembang cache: ijefi-11300.pdf plain text: ijefi-11300.txt item: #17 of 246 id: ijefi-11315 author: Tomu, Lilian; Mutodi, Knowledge; Chuchu, Tinashe; Maziriri, Eugine Tafadzwa title: The Impact of Dollarization Policy on Zimbabwe Exports: A Gravity Model Approach date: 2021-05-14 words: 7863 flesch: 41 summary: The estimated results in table below indicates that Zimbabwe exports are influenced by Dollarization policy, SADC membership status, Trading partner countries GDP, Zimbabwe GDP, Zimbabwe bilateral exchange rate, Population of partner countries. 4.1. The Impact of Dollarization Policy on Zimbabwe Exports: A Gravity Model Approach International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 11 • Issue 3 • 202162 or receiving country increase the demand of Zimbabwe exports by 35%. keywords: countries; country; currency; dollarization; economic; economy; exchange; exports; gravity; impact; international; model; policy; rate; trade; zimbabwe cache: ijefi-11315.pdf plain text: ijefi-11315.txt item: #18 of 246 id: ijefi-11340 author: Rusdi, Rusdi; Harianto, Harianto; Hartoyo, Sri; Novianti, Tanti title: Analysis the Effect of Coconut Production Risk and Price on the Economic Behavior of Coconut Farmers in Seruyan District, Central Borneo Province, Indonesia date: 2021-05-14 words: 6971 flesch: 58 summary: The risk of product prices causes the price obtained by coconut farmer households to fluctuate. Analysis the Effect of Coconut Production Risk and Price on the Economic Behavior of Coconut Farmers in Seruyan District, Central Borneo Province, Indonesia International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 11 • Issue 3 • 2021 65 economic behavior of coconut farmer households both in making decisions on production, consumption and allocation of labor. keywords: coconut; coconut farming; coconut production; effect; family; farmers; household; increase; labor; price; production; risk; use cache: ijefi-11340.pdf plain text: ijefi-11340.txt item: #19 of 246 id: ijefi-11513 author: Al-Jabsheh, Faten; Al-Qudsi, Sulayman; Hajeeh, Mohammed A. title: Investment and Sustainable Economic Growth: Empirical Perspective on Kuwait's Dual Challenge During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond date: 2021-07-12 words: 10206 flesch: 40 summary: Studies that have investigated the determinants of TFP growth consistently show that investment growth to closely tied to improving the investment climate and institutions among other things, adopting open, outward policies, raising the quality of skilled human capital and avoiding an excessively large public sector. *Email: mhajeeh@kisr.edu.kw Received: 15 April 2021 Accepted: 15 June 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.11513 ABSTRACT Endogenous economic growth theories have pointed to private investment as one of the determinants of long run, sustainable economic growth; a well-studied relationship in the development economics literature, both theoretically and empirically. keywords: economic; economy; fdi; gdp; growth; impact; international; investment; journal; kuwait; level; model; oil; pandemic; rates; sector; time cache: ijefi-11513.pdf plain text: ijefi-11513.txt item: #20 of 246 id: ijefi-11535 author: Paul, Sujan Chandra; Rosid, Md. Harun Or; Sharif, Md. Jamil; Rajonee, Anjuman Ara title: Foreign Direct Investment and CO2, CH4, N2O, Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Cross Country Study date: 2021-07-24 words: 5890 flesch: 56 summary: Furthermore, in two of the four markets, the sectoral share of CO2 emissions in total CO2 emissions asymmetrically changes with foreign trade, with export growth leading to a lower share of CO2 and imports having the opposite impact. (2005) used a panel of 100 nations to look at the empirical relationship between CO2 emissions per capita and GDP per capita from 1960 to 1996. keywords: co2; co2 emissions; countries; country; economics; emissions; energy; fdi; gas; greenhouse; investment; model; relationship; study cache: ijefi-11535.pdf plain text: ijefi-11535.txt item: #21 of 246 id: ijefi-11567 author: Evangelou, Antonios; Ferreira-Schenk, Sune; Ferreira, Lorainne; Bothma, Elizabeth title: Investment Risk Tolerance amongst South African University Students in the Vaal Triangle Area date: 2022-01-11 words: 9926 flesch: 52 summary: Investment Risk Tolerance amongst South African University Students in the Vaal Triangle Area International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 12 • Issue 1 • 202214 and researchers alike for many years (Adem, 2010). Within the investor life cycle, the assignment Table 1: Assumed relationship between risk tolerance and demographics Demographic Low-risk tolerance High-risk tolerance Gender Female Male Age Older Younger Marital status Married Single Occupation Workers and labourers Professionals Self-employment Non-Self employed Self-employed Income Low High Race Non-Whites Whites Education Less More Source: Author’s own compilation Figure 1: Four phases of the investor life cycle Source: (van den Bergh, 2018) Evangelou, et al.: Investment Risk Tolerance amongst South African University Students in the Vaal Triangle Area International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 12 • Issue 1 • 2022 15 of assets shifts as the investor’s circumstances change. keywords: african; degree; grable; individual; investment; investment risk; investor; journal; levels; participants; risk profile; risk tolerance; south; students; study; university cache: ijefi-11567.pdf plain text: ijefi-11567.txt item: #22 of 246 id: ijefi-11629 author: Dagume, Mbulaheni Albert title: Factors Influencing Poverty in South Africa: Time Series Analysis date: 2021-09-25 words: 9107 flesch: 50 summary: The VECM findings revealed that the ratio of agriculture to GDP has a negative short-run relationship with poverty rates, while domestic credit to the private sector, foreign direct investment, growth rate, and gross enrollment ratio have a negative short-run relationship with poverty rate, but statistically significant. Domestic credit to the private sector, foreign direct investment, growth rate, and gross enrollment ratio all have a negative long-run relationship with poverty rate, while agriculture to GDP and military spending have a positive but statistically insignificant long-run relationship with poverty rate. keywords: africa; data; growth; impact; investment; poverty; rate; ratio; relationship; results; series; south; south africa; study; test; variables cache: ijefi-11629.pdf plain text: ijefi-11629.txt item: #23 of 246 id: ijefi-11799 author: Dogo, Mela Yila; Aras, Osman Nuri title: Effect of Volatility in the Naira - Dollar Exchange Rate on the volume of Imports to, and Exports from Nigeria date: 2021-09-18 words: 4636 flesch: 50 summary: The response of most of these countries including Nigeria is to adopt policies that would both reduce the exchange rate volatility1 as well as achieve some form of internal and external balance in the 1 For a good discussion of the determinants of exchange rate volatility in Nigeria, see Ajao & Igbekoyi (2013). 2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK Studies on Exchange rate volatility and international trade have attracted divergence attentions particularly in developing nations This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Dogo and Aras: Effect of Volatility in the Naira - Dollar Exchange Rate on The volume of Imports to, and Exports from Nigeria International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 11 • Issue 5 • 2021 69 because of the role of the local currency on the domestic economy and its implications on the external sector, especially like in the Nigerian economy, where, where developments in oil exports seem to impact directly on government operations. keywords: exchange rate; exports; imports; international; nigeria; rate volatility; run; trade; volatility cache: ijefi-11799.pdf plain text: ijefi-11799.txt item: #24 of 246 id: ijefi-11950 author: Su, Hang; Fu, Yao title: The Impact of the Outward and Inward FDI on Global Value Chains date: 2021-11-17 words: 6328 flesch: 50 summary: Variables (1) Global value chain position (POS) and global value chain participation (PAR): Based on the gross export decomposition (Koopman et al., 2010), and the methods of Cen (2015) and Wang et al. (2015), this paper calculates the GVC participation and position indices, which are adopted to represent a country’s global value chain participation and global value chain position, respectively. What’s the role of a country’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and foreign direct investment (FDI) in its participation and position in global value chains (GVCs)? keywords: chain; countries; country; fdi; global; gvc; ofdi; position; technology; value cache: ijefi-11950.pdf plain text: ijefi-11950.txt item: #25 of 246 id: ijefi-11973 author: El Abed, Riadh; Mighri, Zouheir; Hamouda, Abderrazek Ben title: Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Affect Exchange Rate in China and Japan? Evidence from Threshold Cointegration with Asymmetric Adjustment date: 2022-01-11 words: 6401 flesch: 64 summary: In this paper, we study the impact of EPU on exchange rates. The data for the EPU is sourced from policyuncertainty.com and for exchange rates were collected from www.federalreserves.gov. keywords: asymmetric; epu; exchange; rate; tar; threshold; usd cache: ijefi-11973.pdf plain text: ijefi-11973.txt item: #26 of 246 id: ijefi-12509 author: Habanabakize, Thomas; Dickason-Koekemoer, Zandri title: Production and Sales Risks in the Manufacturing Sector: The Role of Electricity Supply, Inflation and Fuel Price Volatility date: 2021-11-17 words: 6526 flesch: 53 summary: Additionally, besides the government support towards electricity production in the Eskom, more effort and resources (financial) would also be allocated to generate and improve other sources of energy such as solar, wind, gas and biogas. Industries without Smokestacks, 275, 1-78. Chakauya, E., Beyene, G., Chikwamba, R.K. (2009), Food production needs fuel too: Perspectives on the impact of biofuels in Southern Africa. keywords: africa; electricity; energy; food; fuel; inflation; manufacturing; price; production; sales; sector; south; supply; test; variables cache: ijefi-12509.pdf plain text: ijefi-12509.txt item: #27 of 246 id: ijefi-13 author: Bulatovic, Jelisavka title: Application of Method of Financial Risk in Serbian Companies - Survey Sample Company date: 2011-06-15 words: 11877 flesch: 47 summary: Key words: Financial risk management instruments, survey research, χ2-test of independence, t-test differences of means 1. Financial risk management in the International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2011, pp.54-73 56 enterprise linked to the attitude of enterprises by taking credit or placing their own surplus funds. keywords: companies; company; enterprises; hedging; hedging instruments; instruments; management; number; protection; risk; risk management; sample; services; total; use cache: ijefi-13.pdf plain text: ijefi-13.txt item: #28 of 246 id: ijefi-13102 author: Chittineni, Jyothi title: A Study on Cryptocurrency Investors’ Purchase Intentions: Revisiting the Brand Personality Theory date: 2022-07-19 words: 4077 flesch: 42 summary: This study examines the brand personality theory and Innovation Diffusion Theory in the context of cryptocurrency purchase intention. Investors who are more familiar with cryptocurrency brands, crypto exchanges, and trading processes will be more likely to purchase cryptocurrency. keywords: cryptocurrency; familiarity; innovativeness; intention; investors; purchase; relationship; security; study; trust cache: ijefi-13102.pdf plain text: ijefi-13102.txt item: #29 of 246 id: ijefi-13131 author: Guerre, Asuncion Arner title: Subcentral Taxation in Spain date: 2022-07-19 words: 9615 flesch: 51 summary: However, Esteller-Moré and Solé Ollé (2001, 2002) found positive reactions of regional tax to increases in the federal tax rate, also between competing provinces. Currently, Spain is a leader in effective tax decentralization in the European Union, with regional revenues on which subcentral governments can modify tax rates and deductions discretionally behind Canada, Switzerland, the US, and Australia (Lago-Peñas and Martínez Vázquez, 2020). keywords: communities; fiscal; income; income tax; journal; lpoa; panel; poa; rate; regional; rpit; spain; state; statistic; tax; taxation; variables cache: ijefi-13131.pdf plain text: ijefi-13131.txt item: #30 of 246 id: ijefi-13377 author: Neilson, Ben title: Progress towards Recognised Professional Status: The Australian Financial Planning Landscape in 2022 date: 2022-09-19 words: 5836 flesch: 36 summary: This research provides a framework for identifying professional attributes, benchmarks existing positions of progress and offers new evidence on financial professional attributes and progress to fill the existing literature gap. This paper argues that financial planning as practised in Australia today, has made considerable professional progress since the original data was published in 2009. keywords: advisers; attributes; bracket; journal; knowledge; mean; planning; professional; progress; respondents; responses; responsibility; theory cache: ijefi-13377.pdf plain text: ijefi-13377.txt item: #31 of 246 id: ijefi-13447 author: Sekwati, Dimakatso; Dagume, Mbulaheni Albert title: Effect of Unemployment and Inflation on Economic Growth in South Africa date: 2023-01-14 words: 9743 flesch: 49 summary: The main aim of this study was to analyze the effect of unemployment and inflation on economic growth in South Africa for the period of 1994 to 2018, using quarterly data. The Johansen co-integration test outcomes showed that there is a long-run relationship among variables, and the Vector error correlation model confirmed that inflation and unemployment have a negative impact on economic growth. keywords: africa; economy; effect; growth; impact; inflation; journal; nigeria; relationship; results; south; study; test; unemployment; variables cache: ijefi-13447.pdf plain text: ijefi-13447.txt item: #32 of 246 id: ijefi-13469 author: Damina, Emmanuel Kukah; Muritala, Taiwo; Ibrahim, Abbas Umar title: Effect of Speed of Adjustments on Capital Structure Decision: A Conceptual Analysis date: 2022-11-23 words: 5887 flesch: 41 summary: On the contrary, Oino and Ukaegbu (2015) recognised the internal financing approach as the best influence on the speed of capital structure adjustments. The findings showed that the optimisation approach could improve the statistics result of capital structure adjustment. keywords: adjustments; capital; capital structure; factors; firms; journal; speed; structure; study; theory cache: ijefi-13469.pdf plain text: ijefi-13469.txt item: #33 of 246 id: ijefi-13476 author: Kimea , Alfred James; Mkhize, Msizi; Maama, Haruna title: Firm-specific Determinants of Aggressive Tax Management among East African Firms date: 2023-05-14 words: 8061 flesch: 53 summary: Both cash effective tax rate and accounting effective rate were used as measures of tax planning. Following the involvements of several multinational corporations (MNCs) in aggressive tax management, the issue of tax planning has attracted attention among academics, political bodies, investors and the public at large (Huseynov et al., 2017; Lee, 2020). keywords: accounting; firms; influence; journal; results; size; studies; study; tax; tax planning cache: ijefi-13476.pdf plain text: ijefi-13476.txt item: #34 of 246 id: ijefi-13484 author: Habanabakize, Thomas; Dickason-Koekemoer, Zandri title: Country Risk Effects and Government Domestic Debt Nexus in South Africa date: 2023-01-14 words: 4593 flesch: 51 summary: While economic and financial risk scores have a positive effect on government debts, an inverse relationship was found between political risk and government debt. INTRODUCTION Government borrowing creates government debt which can either be internal debt or external debt. keywords: country; country risk; debt; government; government debt; international; journal; model; risk; run; south cache: ijefi-13484.pdf plain text: ijefi-13484.txt item: #35 of 246 id: ijefi-13525 author: Manuel, Victoria; Mbazima-Lando, Daisy; Naimhwaka, Erwin title: Effects of Government Expenditure on Foreign Exchange Reserves: Evidence for Namibia date: 2023-01-14 words: 9783 flesch: 44 summary: *Email: victoria.manuel@bon.com.na Received: 15 September 2022 Accepted: 30 December 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.13525 ABSTRACT The study empirically investigated the effects of government expenditure on FX reserves in Namibia. Using quarterly data, the study applied the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration technique to examine the relationship between FX reserves and government expenditure, the exchange rate, external borrowing, current account balance and M2 over the period ranging from 2002 to 2020. keywords: debt; exchange; expenditure; foreign; fx reserves; government; government expenditure; increase; namibia; rate; reserves; study cache: ijefi-13525.pdf plain text: ijefi-13525.txt item: #36 of 246 id: ijefi-13527 author: Ale, Sonia Afrin ; Islam, Md Shafiqul ; Nessa, Hazera-Tun title: Does External Debt Affect Economic Growth: Evidence from South Asian Countries date: 2023-01-14 words: 4678 flesch: 53 summary: Ramzan, M., Ahmad, E. (2014), External debt growth nexus: Role of macroeconomic policies. *Email: hazeratunnessa@du.ac.bd Received: 20 September 2022 Accepted: 30 December 2022 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.13527 ABSTRACT Time series econometric methods are frequently used in studies examining how external debt affects economic growth. keywords: countries; data; debt; economic; effects; growth; journal; pakistan; run; south cache: ijefi-13527.pdf plain text: ijefi-13527.txt item: #37 of 246 id: ijefi-13622 author: Mselmi, Aymen; Mahmoud, Imen title: Systemic Risk: A Comparative Study between Public and Private Banks date: 2023-05-14 words: 6708 flesch: 61 summary: (2012) to determine the level of systemic risk MES of each bank. In order to determine the requisite amount for the recapitalization and financing of capital insufficiency, a set of systemic risk measures are made available. keywords: banks; conditional; index; market; mes; period; returns; risk; shortfall; stock; study; t t cache: ijefi-13622.pdf plain text: ijefi-13622.txt item: #38 of 246 id: ijefi-13626 author: Baloi, Elizabeth; Dagume, Albert Mbulaheni title: Macroeconomic Determinants of Economic Growth in South Africa (1994-2016): Cointegration Approach date: 2022-11-23 words: 9719 flesch: 49 summary: The aim of this study was to analyse macroeconomic determinants of economic growth in South Africa for the period 1994-2016, using the cointegration approach. The Vector Error Correction Model proved existence of a short-run relationship among the variables and that physical capital and inflation have positive impact on economic growth; labour force, government expenditure and FDI have negative impact on economic growth in South Africa. keywords: africa; capital; determinants; economic; growth; impact; investment; journal; macroeconomic; model; relationship; results; south; study; test cache: ijefi-13626.pdf plain text: ijefi-13626.txt item: #39 of 246 id: ijefi-13640 author: Sune Ferreira-Schenk; Dickason-Koekemoer, Zandri title: Analysing the Factors Affecting the Long-term Investment Intention of Investors date: 2023-01-14 words: 6883 flesch: 37 summary: International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, 11(4), 73-81. Forbes, S. (2009), Portfolio theory and how parent birds manage investment risk. The framework of this article looks at the theoretical concepts, investor characteristics and investor bias in a risk profile that could influence investors’ intent to invest over the long term. keywords: bias; biases; factors; finance; intentions; investment; investors; journal; personality; risk; term; term investment; tolerance cache: ijefi-13640.pdf plain text: ijefi-13640.txt item: #40 of 246 id: ijefi-13679 author: Banda, Fredrick M.; Edriss, Abdi Khalil title: How Did Covid-19 Affect the Structural Relationship between Exchange Rates and Money Supply? Evidence from Malawi date: 2023-01-14 words: 5894 flesch: 53 summary: Secondly, it uses Engle-Granger test of cointegration and the VEC to establish if there exists a relationship between exchange rate and money supply. This implies that money supply has a larger dispersion relative to its mean than exchange rate. keywords: covid-19; currency; exchange; exchange rate; malawi; money; money supply; rate; study; supply cache: ijefi-13679.pdf plain text: ijefi-13679.txt item: #41 of 246 id: ijefi-13706 author: Matenda, Frank Ranganai; Chirima, Justin; Sibanda, Mabutho title: Valuation of Corporate Debt and Equity in Uncertain Markets date: 2023-01-14 words: 4649 flesch: 60 summary: Yao, K. (2015), A no-arbitrage theorem for uncertain stock model. The implementation of the uncertainty theory in finance theory led to the emergence of uncertain finance theory. keywords: corporate; debt; equity; liu; model; option; theory; uncertain; value cache: ijefi-13706.pdf plain text: ijefi-13706.txt item: #42 of 246 id: ijefi-13717 author: Sgammini, Ruschelle title: A Comparative Risk-adjusted Performance Evaluation of South African SRI Funds and the FTSE/JSE over the Covid-19 Period date: 2023-01-14 words: 8418 flesch: 47 summary: Additionally, by evaluating SRI fund performance against that of the RI Top 30 index and ALSH, it is possible to establish if SRI funds outperformed the respective SRI and general equity markets in South Africa. This study will evaluate the performance of local SRI funds before, during and after the Covid-19 period to establish if the pandemic, a period in which financial markets experienced downturns, influenced SRI fund performance. keywords: covid-19; covid-19 period; ftse; funds; index; investment; jse; performance; period; ratio; risk; south; sri; sri funds cache: ijefi-13717.pdf plain text: ijefi-13717.txt item: #43 of 246 id: ijefi-13720 author: Audi, Marc; Ali, Amjad title: Public Policy and Economic Misery Nexus: A Comparative Analysis of Developed and Developing World date: 2023-05-14 words: 14326 flesch: 56 summary: The short-run outcomes show most of the explanatory variables have an insignificant short-run impact on economic misery in the case of whole sample analysis, developed countries analysis, and developing countries analysis over the selected period. The long-run outcomes of ARDL for whole sample analysis, developed countries analysis, and developing countries analysis have been given in Table 1. keywords: analysis; chi; countries; debt; development; economic; economy; fisher; government; growth; impact; inflation; journal; level; lin; misery; policy; public; relationship; results; square; t t; unemployment cache: ijefi-13720.pdf plain text: ijefi-13720.txt item: #44 of 246 id: ijefi-13747 author: Lezar, Mohammed Amine title: Real Exchange Rate of Moroccan Currency: Appreciated or Depreciated? date: 2023-01-14 words: 11395 flesch: 51 summary: Over the longer term, Morocco has experienced Real exchange rate (Zuzana et al., 2013). The paper is structured as follows: the first part presents different concepts of real exchange rates as well as their theoretical bases. keywords: competitiveness; costs; countries; country; currency; dirham; exchange rate; goods; index; indices; international; moroccan; morocco; price; rates; trade cache: ijefi-13747.pdf plain text: ijefi-13747.txt item: #45 of 246 id: ijefi-13752 author: Enow, Samuel Tabot title: Stock Market Liquidity during Periods of Distress and its Implications: Evidence from International Financial Markets date: 2023-01-14 words: 4307 flesch: 47 summary: This traditional models also incorporate stock market liquidity as an exogenous cost. The aim of this study was to explore the concept of stock market liquidity during periods of financial distress. keywords: crisis; distress; international; journal; liquidity; market; market liquidity; pandemic; regime; stock cache: ijefi-13752.pdf plain text: ijefi-13752.txt item: #46 of 246 id: ijefi-13774 author: Alqudah, Obiedah Mohammad; Salleh, Safrul Izani Mohd title: The Realities and Expectations of Calculating Government Service Costs: An Analysis of Jordanian Hospitals date: 2023-01-14 words: 6550 flesch: 38 summary: Analyze the data in tables prepared to meet the research’s objectives and develop some indicators and suggestions that will serve as the foundation for assessing the magnitude of hospital costs on an annual basis and using the approach used in this study. Doi: 10.1108/ IJPPM-05-2020-0244 Ostadi, B., Daloie, R.M., Sepehri, M.M. (2019), A combined modelling of fuzzy logic and time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) for hospital services costing under uncertainty. keywords: accounting; analysis; cost; government; health; hospital; jordanian; journal; management; ministry; research; services; spending; study; system cache: ijefi-13774.pdf plain text: ijefi-13774.txt item: #47 of 246 id: ijefi-13797 author: Bosire, Eric Mokwaro title: Viewpoints in Global Value Chains: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2023-01-14 words: 12773 flesch: 62 summary: 1 RQ RL VA GRR 11 0 037 0 0 0 003 76 65 333 75 59444 87 0 � � � � � � � � � � . Infrastructure GVC TCI ECI ICTI WSSIit it it it� � � � � �� � � � � �1 2 3 4 0 (2) c. Governance GVC COC GE PS RQ RL VA keywords: africa; chains; development; economic; global; gvc; infrastructure; international; model; relationship; saharan; study; sub; value; value chains; world cache: ijefi-13797.pdf plain text: ijefi-13797.txt item: #48 of 246 id: ijefi-13803 author: Shahaboonin, Faraaz; David, Oladipo Olalekan; Wyk, Abigail Van title: Historic Spatial Inequality and Poverty along Racial Lines in South Africa date: 2023-01-14 words: 8149 flesch: 53 summary: The main thrust of the paper is to briefly investigate two major aspects, firstly the root cause of spatial inequality in South Africa, and secondly the impact that spatial inequality has on socio-economic indicators such as economic inequality, poverty, and employment levels. Another more deeply rooted inequality is that of spatial inequality. keywords: africa; expenditure; group; income; inequality; land; population; poverty; race; south; south africa; sub cache: ijefi-13803.pdf plain text: ijefi-13803.txt item: #49 of 246 id: ijefi-1383 author: Rahmat, Normala; Buntat, Yahya; Ayub, Abdul Rahman title: Determination of Constructs and Dimensions of Employability Skills Based Work Performance Prediction: A Triangular Approach date: 2015-07-23 words: 4673 flesch: 33 summary: Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills Table 1c: Table comparison of constructs of ESWPP from the employer expert perspective Employability skills construct summary Company (1) Company (2) Company (3) Company (4) Company (5) Total score Communication skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Personal qualities √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Teamwork skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Critical thinking and problem solving skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Technology skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Organizational skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Continuously learning skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 ESWPP: Employability skills based work performance prediction Table 1d: Table comparison of constructs formation of ESWPP from the institution expert perspective Employability construct summary Content expert (1) Content expert (2) Content expert (3) Content expert (4) Content expert (5) Total score Communication skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Personal qualities √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Teamwork skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Critical thinking and problem solving skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Technology skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Organizational skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 Continuously learning skills √ √ √ √ √ 5/5 ESWPP: Employability skills based work performance prediction Rahmat, et al.: keywords: dimensions; employability; employability skills; information √; learning √; qualities √; skills √; strategies √; √ 3/5; √ √ cache: ijefi-1383.pdf plain text: ijefi-1383.txt item: #50 of 246 id: ijefi-1386 author: Alamer, Abdullah Rajeh Ali; Salamon, Hussin Bin; Qureshi, Muhammad Imran; Rasli, Amran Md. title: A New Business Process and Outcome Oriented Corporate Social Responsibility Index for Islamic Banking date: 2015-07-23 words: 4666 flesch: 43 summary: (2010) 69 Screening clients and contractors Annual reports and other publications Samina (2012) 4 Environment 10 Investment and finance 70 No investment in any projects that may harm the environment Use of all sources All authors except Mohammed et al., 76 Research expense/total expense Annual reports Mohammed et al., 2008 77 Supporting the R&D, training conducted by academics, changes in restricted investment Annual reports or websites Hassan and Harahap (2010); AAOIFI 14 Innovative 78 Introduce new products based on R&D of Islamic concepts Annual reports Hassan and Harahap (2010); Aribi and Gao, (2010); Rahman et al. (2010) 6 Investment 15 Affordable products and services 79 Bad debt/total investment Annual reports Mohammed et al., 2008 16 Empowerment of communities 80 IAH funds/shareholder funds Annual reports Farook et al., 2011 81 Amount of financing to poor families and small businesses Interviews Yusuf and Bahari, (2011), Samina (2012) 82 Financing housing construction Respondents Sairally (2005) keywords: bahari; dimensions; et al; index; islamic; reports; respondents; responsibility; yusuf cache: ijefi-1386.pdf plain text: ijefi-1386.txt item: #51 of 246 id: ijefi-1387 author: Jamil, Farhan; Ismail, Kamariah; Mahmood, Nasir title: A Review of Commercialization Tools: University Incubators and Technology Parks date: 2015-07-23 words: 4550 flesch: 35 summary: Lee, S.S., Osteryoung, J.S. (2004), A comparison of critical success factors for effective operations of university business incubators in the United States and Korea. Somsuk, N., Laosirihongthong, T., McLean, M.W. (2012), Strategic management of university business incubators (UBIs): Resource – Based view (RBV) theory. keywords: business; commercialization; incubators; journal; knowledge; parks; research; technology; technology parks; transfer; university cache: ijefi-1387.pdf plain text: ijefi-1387.txt item: #52 of 246 id: ijefi-1388 author: Bhuyan, Rafiq; Kuhle, James L.; Al-Deehani, Talla Mohammed; Mahmood, Munir title: Portfolio Diversification Benefits Using Real Estate Investment Trusts – An Experiment with US Common Stocks, Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts, and Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trusts date: 2015-10-16 words: 6176 flesch: 50 summary: Common stock with EREITs portfolio risk (0.05763449) tends to reduce more than common stock portfolio risk (0.05987907) with five asset combination portfolios. The monthly return values are then used to create portfolio of various size within five portfolio categories: (i) EREITs, (ii) MREITs, (iii) common stock portfolios, (iv) Mixed portfolios of EREITs and common stock, and (v) mixed portfolios of MREITs and common stock. keywords: asset; ereits; estate; estate investment; investment; portfolio; risk; stock; trusts cache: ijefi-1388.pdf plain text: ijefi-1388.txt item: #53 of 246 id: ijefi-13888 author: Mbazia, Nadia title: Do Payment Technology Innovations Affect Currency Demand in Tunisia? date: 2023-01-14 words: 7238 flesch: 55 summary: Moreover, the share of bank cards payments increased significantly from around 0.5% in December 2008 to around 7% in December 2018. It must be used by means of card payment and, increasingly, by mobile phone. keywords: bank; bank cards; cards; cash; currency; currency demand; demand; number; payment; transactions; tunisia; use cache: ijefi-13888.pdf plain text: ijefi-13888.txt item: #54 of 246 id: ijefi-1414 author: Awais, Mustabsar; Laber, M. Fahad; Rasheed, Nilofer; Khursheed, Aisha title: Impact of Financial Literacy and Investment Experience on Risk Tolerance and Investment Decisions: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan date: 2016-01-22 words: 5946 flesch: 46 summary: As the information used to make financial decisions is being collected from different sources. According to this financial literacy is high for people having age of 50 and 60 years, professionals, business and owners of farm, and university or college graduates (Worthington, 2001)† literacy of financial education can also described as the capability of individuals to go for financial decisions by keeping in view their own best short term and long-term interests (Mandell, 2008). keywords: decisions; experience; factors; information; investment; investor; journal; literacy; lusardi; making; risk; tolerance cache: ijefi-1414.pdf plain text: ijefi-1414.txt item: #55 of 246 id: ijefi-1416 author: Ibrahim, Mukdad title: A Comparative Study of Financial Performance Between Conventional and Islamic Banking in United Arab Emirates date: 2015-10-16 words: 5904 flesch: 53 summary: Sanwari and Zakaria (2013) studied the Islamic bank performance in relation to the effect of both internal conditions and the external factors on Islamic banks performance. Quantitative analysis was undertaken by looking at various sets of financial ratios that are routinely used to measure bank performance. keywords: analysis; bank; dubai; islamic; mean; performance; ratio; sharjah; total cache: ijefi-1416.pdf plain text: ijefi-1416.txt item: #56 of 246 id: ijefi-1420 author: Benahmed-Daho, Rachida; Bouteldja, Abdelnacer; Bendob, Ali title: Liberalization of Financial Services and Performance of Commercial Banks in Algeria: An Empirical Study (1998 – 2012) date: 2015-10-16 words: 6068 flesch: 47 summary: The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of financial LIB on banking efficiency in Algeria. Our results show a negative and significant impact of financial LIB on Algerian banking performance during the period studied. keywords: algeria; banking; banks; journal; lib; liberalization; model; performance; sector; services; study; variable cache: ijefi-1420.pdf plain text: ijefi-1420.txt item: #57 of 246 id: ijefi-1421 author: Kuzmin, Evgeny A.; Semyonovykh, Sergei M. title: Rethinking of Coase Theorem: Externalities and Uncertainty date: 2015-10-16 words: 8710 flesch: 49 summary: REFERENCES Allen, D.W. (1998), Property rights, transaction costs and Coase: One more time. org/10.1007/978-94-011-5350-8_6. Allen, D.W. 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By estima ting a vector error correction (VEC) model, it was found that remittances inflows were associated significantly with real per capita income, money supply and oil price, in both long and short run. keywords: countries; country; egypt; home; inflows; international; model; oil; remittances; response; shocks; variables cache: ijefi-1477.pdf plain text: ijefi-1477.txt item: #61 of 246 id: ijefi-1486 author: Manuylenko, Vikroriya Valeryevna; Mishchenko, Andrey Aleksandrovich; Bigday, Olga Borisovna; Putrenok, Yekaterina Leonidovna; Savtsova, Anna Valeryevna title: A Comprehensive Definition of the Concept of Innovation in Russian and International Science date: 2015-10-16 words: 5993 flesch: 19 summary: Kleinknecht and Coombs make a clear distinction between process innovations and product innovations, distinguishing: Unambiguous product innovations for ultimate consumption; new investment goods – production of consumer goods and services; new technological devices and new technological materials – production of investment and consumer goods; scientific instruments for laboratory tests and use for laboratory purposes; and unambiguous process innovations of production facilitation (Coombs and Kleinknecht, 1983). The purpose of research is to justify the key trends in the formation of modern methodological tools for innovation assessment based on the respective innovation conceptual framework. keywords: assessment; concept; development; innovation; innovation assessment; international; invention; management; moscow; novelty; process; product; system cache: ijefi-1486.pdf plain text: ijefi-1486.txt item: #62 of 246 id: ijefi-1491 author: Danjuma, Ibrahim; Umar, Mohammed Sangiru; Hammawa, Dahiru Dauda title: Mediating Effects of Cash Management in Relationship Between Capital Structure and Liquidity in Small and Medium Enterprises date: 2015-10-16 words: 5269 flesch: 43 summary: P2: There is significant relationship capital structure and liquidity in small and medium enterprises 2.3. *Email: ibro.danjuma@gmail.com ABSTRACT This study attempts to establish the relationship that exists between capital structure, cash management and liquidity in some selected small and medium enterprises in Jimeta, Adamawa State, Nigeria. keywords: capital; capital structure; cash; cash management; liquidity; management; relationship; significant; structure cache: ijefi-1491.pdf plain text: ijefi-1491.txt item: #63 of 246 id: ijefi-1493 author: KÜNÜ, Serkan; HOPOĞLU, Sertaç; BOZMA, Gürkan title: Conflict, Defense Spending and Economic Growth in the Middle East: A Panel Data Analysis date: 2016-01-22 words: 5636 flesch: 52 summary: *Email: sertac.hopoglu@igdir.edu.tr ABSTRACT The relationship between defense spending and economic growth is an active topic of debate for a long time. This study is conducted to investigate the effects of defense spending on economic growth in a panel of twelve Middle Eastern countries over the period 1998-2012. keywords: countries; data; defense; defense spending; economics; growth; middle; panel; relationship; spending cache: ijefi-1493.pdf plain text: ijefi-1493.txt item: #64 of 246 id: ijefi-1518 author: Aloud, Monira Essa title: Profitability of Directional Change Based Trading Strategies: The Case of Saudi Stock Market date: 2016-01-22 words: 8382 flesch: 58 summary: That means price time series in FMs do not follow any trend or pattern. The FM literature has featured an extended debate on the effectiveness of technical analysis on analyzing price time series Grossman and Stiglitz (1980); Tirole (1982); Lo (1988); Tsang and Martinez- Jaramillo (2004); Cont (2001). keywords: dct0; event; financial; fms; market; price; series; strategies; threshold; time; trading; trading strategies cache: ijefi-1518.pdf plain text: ijefi-1518.txt item: #65 of 246 id: ijefi-1526 author: Lubis, Hasrita; Kumar, M. Dileep; Ikbar, P.; Muneer, Saqib title: Role of Psychological Factors in Individuals Investment Decisions date: 2015-10-22 words: 6361 flesch: 39 summary: Moreover, they also asserted that little effort has been devoted to explaining the relationship between these factors and financial risk taking behaviors. In this respect, this is a preliminary study paying attention to defense mechanisms in financial risk taking setting. keywords: criterion; decision; defense; individuals; investment; journal; literacy; mechanisms; neurotic; personality; risk; study cache: ijefi-1526.pdf plain text: ijefi-1526.txt item: #66 of 246 id: ijefi-1527 author: Mutahar, Amena Y.; Rasli, Amran Md; Al-Ghazali, Basheer M. title: Relationship of Transformational Leadership, Organizational Learning and Organizational Performance date: 2015-10-22 words: 4128 flesch: 29 summary: ABSTRACT Purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of transformational leadership on organizational performance through the dynamic capabilities of organizational learning in telecom sector of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). A positive association exists between organizational learning and organizational performance. keywords: et al; journal; leadership; learning; management; organization; performance cache: ijefi-1527.pdf plain text: ijefi-1527.txt item: #67 of 246 id: ijefi-1598 author: Bykov, Il'ia A.; Cherkashchenko, Tatiana A.; Dorskii, Andrei Y.; Kaverina, Elena A. title: Government Regulation of Advertising in the Eurasian Economic Union: Contradictions of Public Policy and Advertising Ethics date: 2015-11-21 words: 3994 flesch: 40 summary: Regionology, 4, 195-198. Snyder, W. (2011), Making the case for enhanced advertising ethics: How a new way of thinking about advertising ethics may build consumer trust. The study aims to explore politics of advertising regulation in the EAEU. keywords: advertising; eaeu; ethics; law; policy; public; regulation; russian; self; states cache: ijefi-1598.pdf plain text: ijefi-1598.txt item: #68 of 246 id: ijefi-1707 author: Semenov, Aleksandr Sergeevich; Kuznetcov, Vladimir Sergeevich title: Assessment of Level of Risk in Decision-Making in Terms of Career Exploitation date: 2015-12-25 words: 4873 flesch: 51 summary: p61-69. Semenov, A. (2014), Assessment of project risk in the hierarchical Table 5: The logarithm of the width of the work sites under different attitude to risk Attitude to risk lnB В, m ẟi Level of risk R(B), % Bold 3.2 24.2 1.56 50 Smooth 2.35 10.5 0.88 9.53 Careful 1.98 7.3 0.53 3.12 Mustafa, M., Al-Bahar, J. (1991), Project risk assessment using the analytic hierarchy process. keywords: b b; distribution; project; risk; sites; width; working cache: ijefi-1707.pdf plain text: ijefi-1707.txt item: #69 of 246 id: ijefi-1708 author: Kirillov, Andrey Vladimirovich; Vinichenko, Mikhail Vasilevich; Melnichuk, Alexander Vasilevich; Melnichuk, Yulyia Alexandrovna; Lakina, Yulyia title: Higher Education Institutions Grading: Administrative and Support Personnel date: 2015-12-25 words: 6128 flesch: 33 summary: We will briefly look into each of them to justify the method’s choice for developing RSSU grading system. When developing remuneration structure and compensation system, we kept in mind that RSSU is a state university and basic salary is calculated in accordance with Russian regulations setting professional and qualification groups and professional and qualification levels thus RSSU grading system is the basis for calculating stimulating part of employees compensation package (Figure 5). keywords: assessment; education; financial; grade; grading; indicators; level; management; personnel; positions; rssu; system; university cache: ijefi-1708.pdf plain text: ijefi-1708.txt item: #70 of 246 id: ijefi-1784 author: Dayyabu, Siba; Adnan, Ahmad Azrin; Sulong, Zunaidah title: Effectiveness of Foreign Exchange Market Intervention in Nigeria (1970-2013) date: 2016-01-22 words: 8290 flesch: 52 summary: In his effort to evaluate the intensity of foreign exchange intervention on monetary aggregates using autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach, Adebiyi (2007) testified that there was no strong relationship between intervention variables and exchange rates. Despite the fact that this work is among the earliest empirical work in Nigeria, (second to Adebiyi, 2007), however, the researchers failed to include the exchange rate variable which is the main target of foreign exchange intervention. keywords: bank; cbn; exchange; exchange rate; fem; intervention; market; model; naira; nigeria; rate; test; value; variables cache: ijefi-1784.pdf plain text: ijefi-1784.txt item: #71 of 246 id: ijefi-1804 author: Kim, Woo Sung title: Determinants of Corporate Trade Credit: An Empirical Study on Korean Firms date: 2016-04-19 words: 5033 flesch: 58 summary: *Email: ab1212@konkuk.ac.kr ABSTRACT This study is designed to determine the motives for trade credit in Korean firms. Based on data collected from 14,660 firm-year observations running from 1992 to 2011 on the Korean Stock Exchange, this paper finds strong evidence on determinants of trade credit based on financial characteristics. keywords: assets; credit; firms; leverage; mean; trade; year cache: ijefi-1804.pdf plain text: ijefi-1804.txt item: #72 of 246 id: ijefi-1810 author: Oluwatobi, Stephen; Ola-David, Oluyomi; Olurinola, Isaiah; Alege, Philip; Ogundipe, Adeyemi title: Human Capital, Institutions and Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa date: 2016-10-21 words: 5946 flesch: 46 summary: Human capital, in Table 6, is indicated by secondary school enrolment, thus, capturing human capital with secondary education; while human capital in Table 7 is indicated tertiary school enrolment, hence, capturing human capital with tertiary education. *Email: ade.ogundipe@covenantuniversity.edu.ng ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of human capital and institutions on innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and clearly highlighted the relevance of the human factor in determining innovation outcomes in the Sub-Saharan African region. keywords: africa; capacity; capital; development; growth; innovation; institutions; region; ssa; study cache: ijefi-1810.pdf plain text: ijefi-1810.txt item: #73 of 246 id: ijefi-1815 author: Ekinci, Aykut title: The Effect of Credit and Market Risk on Bank Performance: Evidence from Turkey date: 2016-04-19 words: 7326 flesch: 55 summary: Banks were increasingly investing in government bonds as well as taking huge currency mismatches and interest rate risk in these years. Similar to interest rate risk, banks might mitigate the foreign currency exposure by using different hedging techniques. keywords: bank; banking; credit; credit risk; effect; interest; interest rate; journal; rate; rate risk; return; risk cache: ijefi-1815.pdf plain text: ijefi-1815.txt item: #74 of 246 id: ijefi-1825 author: Quader, Syed Manzur; Abdullah, Mohammad Nayeem title: Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: A Cross Country Analysis date: 2016-04-19 words: 8536 flesch: 52 summary: Instead, the use of cash flow sensitivities of cash which is based on the premise that a firm’s propensity to save cash out of cash inflows should be related to the financial constraint it faces can avoid some of the problems associated with the investment-cash flow literature (Almeida et al., 2004) and hence, is claimed to be a more powerful and convincing measure of the existence of financial constraints. While these studies show that FC firms have higher investment- cash flow sensitivities, our study attempts to detect financial constraints by comparing the cross-sectional variations in cash flow sensitivity of cash at the firm level which is novel. keywords: cash; cash flow; constraints; countries; financial; firms; investment; journal; nfc; sensitivity; table; variables cache: ijefi-1825.pdf plain text: ijefi-1825.txt item: #75 of 246 id: ijefi-1833 author: Kyriazopoulos, Georgios title: Wealth Effects from Banks Mergers and Acquisitions in Eastern Europe date: 2016-04-19 words: 6798 flesch: 58 summary: Therefore, Eastern Europe’s bank industry could be considered a good laboratory to gauge market reaction to bank M&A announcements that could provide useful to academics and practitioners alike. (2007), standard factors explaining M&A success in developed markets, such as profitability, type of acquisition and size of the target are not the main explanatory variables in bank M&A in Eastern Europe. keywords: announcement; bank; banking; caar; eastern; effects; europe; journal; m&a; m&as; market; target cache: ijefi-1833.pdf plain text: ijefi-1833.txt item: #76 of 246 id: ijefi-19 author: Golja, Tea; Krstinić Nižić, Marinela; PauliÅ¡ić, Morena title: Perspectives of Corporate Governance in Croatian Banking Sector date: 2011-07-19 words: 6090 flesch: 37 summary: Bank assets under majority ownership of foreign shareholders amounted to 90.6% of total asset of all banks (Table 1), slightly lower share than by the end of 2009, as a consequence of the unchanged level in foreign ownership of overall bank assets and the simultaneous growth in domestically owned private bank assets by 5.1%, and in domestic state ownership of bank assets by 1.4%. According to the research in Croatian banks corporate governance in future should give more attention to responsiveness; equity; efficiency and effectiveness; and on accountability. keywords: assets; banking; banks; board; business; croatian; end; governance; market; national; ownership; sector cache: ijefi-19.pdf plain text: ijefi-19.txt item: #77 of 246 id: ijefi-2 author: Hsing, Yu title: The Stock Market and Macroeconomic Variables in a BRICS Country and Policy Implications date: 2011-05-15 words: 3637 flesch: 55 summary: -1.706* (-10.186) -0.138* (-20.182) Log(U.S. stock market index) U.S. stock market index Log(U.K. stock market index) 0.771* (34.881) 0.471* (61.897) 0.925* (35.817) Log(U.S. government bond yield) U.S. government bond yield Log(U.K. government bond yield) -0.183* (-5.302) They find that real stock prices are not affected by a permanent change in the inflation rate in the long run and that any deviation in real stock prices in the short run will be adjusted toward real stock prices in the long run. keywords: gdp; index; interest; market; rate; south; stock; stock market cache: ijefi-2.pdf plain text: ijefi-2.txt item: #78 of 246 id: ijefi-2064 author: Sertoglu, Kamil; Dogan, Nezahat title: Agricultural Trade and Its Determinants: Evidence from Bounds Testing Approach for Turkey date: 2016-04-19 words: 4737 flesch: 46 summary: The other factors that are expected to effect agricultural trade balance such as ratio of export and import prices of agricultural goods, producer prices, real income of the country are also added to the model. For this purpose, bounds test approach for co-integration and autoregressive distributed lag method are used to show the existence of long-term relationship between agricultural trade balance and its determinants in Turkey. keywords: balance; economics; exchange; exchange rate; journal; rate; relationship; run; trade; trade balance; turkey; variables cache: ijefi-2064.pdf plain text: ijefi-2064.txt item: #79 of 246 id: ijefi-2076 author: Lai, Chung-Fu; Lee, Xi-Tsz title: The Effects of Anti-Dumping Duties in a New Open Economy Macroeconomics Model date: 2016-07-23 words: 6065 flesch: 54 summary: t t f t t t f t f t keywords: antidumping; country; duty; f t; price; t t cache: ijefi-2076.pdf plain text: ijefi-2076.txt item: #80 of 246 id: ijefi-2093 author: Balseven, Hale title: The Political Economy of Financial Regulation Policies Following the Global Crisis date: 2016-04-19 words: 9113 flesch: 45 summary: Financial regulation means the establishment of institutions and rules concerning financial markets by public authorities, with the purpose of orienting sources in the direction of certain objectives, due to the regulatory function of state. Thus, financial regulations shall be examined within their financial governance structure. keywords: approach; bank; basel; capital; countries; crisis; financial; global; institutions; international; markets; new; policies; policy; regulation; risk; system cache: ijefi-2093.pdf plain text: ijefi-2093.txt item: #81 of 246 id: ijefi-2094 author: Abbasi, Wajih; Hájek, Petr; Ismailova, Diana; Yessimzhanova, Saira; Khelifa, Zouhaier Ben; Amonov, Kholnazar title: Kou Jump Diffusion Model: An Application to the S&P 500; Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 Index Options date: 2016-10-21 words: 11780 flesch: 60 summary: Skiadopoulos, G. (2000), Volatility smile consistent option models: A survey. The second model is the CEV model developed by Cox and Ross (1975) better known by the abbreviation CEV model that belongs to the class of univariate models. keywords: bs model; cev model; diffusion model; jump; kou; kou model; model; nasdaq; options; parameters; price; sample; time; volatility cache: ijefi-2094.pdf plain text: ijefi-2094.txt item: #82 of 246 id: ijefi-21 author: Barzegari Khanagha, Jamal title: Value Relevance of Accounting Information in the United Arab Emirates date: 2011-06-06 words: 7964 flesch: 54 summary: Cho (2005)asserted the absolute magnitude of price change associated with accountings information was one main possible reasons for changes in the R2, in the case of UAE, referencing to (Barzegari, 2010) market index, price and return In Abu Dhabi Securities Market for years after reform was more than the absolute magnitude of accounting information. This paper examines the value relevance of accounting information in per and post- periods of International Financial Reporting Standards implementation using the regression and portfolio approaches for sample of the UAE companies. keywords: accounting; accounting information; companies; earnings; information; market; model; period; portfolio; reform; relevance; return; value; value relevance cache: ijefi-21.pdf plain text: ijefi-21.txt item: #83 of 246 id: ijefi-2100 author: Kalinina, Olga title: An innovative approach to the formation of a progressive taxation probabilistic model on personal incomes date: 2016-07-23 words: 5838 flesch: 57 summary: The total yields from income tax at a flat rate; C - Total yields from personal income tax under the progressive scale. In 2001, the Russian Federation refused to introduction of progressive income tax and flat rate of 13% was forced. keywords: income; j j; n n; s n; scale; tax; taxation cache: ijefi-2100.pdf plain text: ijefi-2100.txt item: #84 of 246 id: ijefi-2101 author: Hassan, Hassan Ismail; Jreisat, Ammar title: Cost Efficiency of the Egyptian Banking Sector: A Panel Data Analysis date: 2016-07-23 words: 9257 flesch: 61 summary: With the Egyptian economy’s slowdown, bank efficiency has become a concern for policymakers and Egyptian banks have had to find creative ways to optimize their cost structures. Studies in Economics and Finance, 22, 40-69. Hermes, N., Nhung, V.T. (2010), The impact of financial liberalization on bank efficiency: Evidence from Latin America and Asia. keywords: banking; banking sector; banks; cost; data; dea; efficiency; egyptian; foreign; international; journal; sector cache: ijefi-2101.pdf plain text: ijefi-2101.txt item: #85 of 246 id: ijefi-2104 author: Salim, Badreldin F.; Mahmoud, Mohamed H. title: Islamic Finance: Is it a Time to be Considered as an Alternative during Financial Crisis Times? A Comparative Study in Gulf Cooperation Council date: 2016-07-23 words: 7769 flesch: 47 summary: IBs: Islamic banks. 16.9 SD: Standard deviation, IBs: Islamic banks Table 5: Differences in ROAE ratios of the groups of banks during the whole period Ratios Mean±SD* (%) Minimum Maximum P value** Conventional banks 30.55±18.26 1.22 56.65 0.02 IBs 8.72±7.42 0.59 16.9 *SD: Standard deviation, **P value from t-test, a P<0.05 is considered significant, IBs: Islamic banks, ROAE: keywords: banking; banks; conventional; crisis; finance; ibs; islamic; journal; liquidity; performance; ratio; study cache: ijefi-2104.pdf plain text: ijefi-2104.txt item: #86 of 246 id: ijefi-2168 author: Nassar, Heba; Biltagy, Marwa title: The Nexus of Regional Poverty and Education in Egypt: A Micro Analysis date: 2016-10-21 words: 6741 flesch: 48 summary: Increasing linkages with formal economy in Upper Egypt and Cairo through subcontracting and franchising system, and with the rural economy especially through rural non- farm activities in Upper Egypt f. Improving infrastructure in poor rural Upper Egypt to support informal economy (UNDP, ILO, 1997). The incidence of poverty increased substantially from 10.82% to 19.27% in urban Upper Egypt and from 29.32% to 34.15% in rural Upper Egypt over the period 1995/96-1999/2000. keywords: earnings; education; egypt; employment; growth; labor; poverty; sector; total; upper; urban cache: ijefi-2168.pdf plain text: ijefi-2168.txt item: #87 of 246 id: ijefi-22 author: Meryem, Bellouma title: Governance Mechanisms and Buyer Supplier Relationship: Static and Dynamic Panel Data Evidence from Tunisian Exporting SMEs date: 2011-07-19 words: 6204 flesch: 42 summary: Keywords: Governance, Transactional governance mechanisms, relational governance mechanisms, opportunism, buyer supplier relationship. However, the relative effectiveness of relational mechanisms in enhancing buyer supplier relationship has yet to be addressed. keywords: buyer; companies; credit; data; governance; governance mechanisms; journal; mechanisms; opportunism; relationship; supplier; trade; transactional cache: ijefi-22.pdf plain text: ijefi-22.txt item: #88 of 246 id: ijefi-2305 author: Hegazy, Azza Mohamed title: Mobile Phone and Child Mortality: The Case Of Developing Countries date: 2016-07-23 words: 7558 flesch: 53 summary: It is also argued that health expenditure is an important determinant of under-five and infant mortality as it affects child health status. Although it is common in recent years to have access to health information depending on computers especially after widening the Internet infrastructure, relying on the mobile phone in the field of health care is now more important. keywords: child; child mortality; countries; expenditure; health; impact; information; international; mobile; mortality; phone; public; rate; study cache: ijefi-2305.pdf plain text: ijefi-2305.txt item: #89 of 246 id: ijefi-2314 author: Utama, Anak Agung Gde Satia; Mirhard, Reza Renaldi title: The Influence of Sustainability Report Disclosure as Moderating Variable towards the Impact of Intellectual Capital on Company's Performance date: 2016-07-26 words: 6179 flesch: 55 summary: This research used Pulic’s model of value added intellectual coefficient (VAIC) to determine the IC of companies. The increasing number of companies is happening because they want to make their operations sustainable and contribute to sustainable-related development. keywords: capital; company; disclosure; impact; performance; vaic; value cache: ijefi-2314.pdf plain text: ijefi-2314.txt item: #90 of 246 id: ijefi-2328 author: Kotha, Kiran Kumar; Sahu, Bhawna title: Macroeconomic Factors and the Indian Stock Market: Exploring Long and Short Run Relationships date: 2016-07-23 words: 9775 flesch: 53 summary: This paper aims to examine long and short run relations between selected macroeconomic indicators and stock market returns with reference to India. We find that current economic activities can explain stock market returns since the stock market reflects macroeconomic variables on stock price indices. keywords: exchange; inflation; interest; market; money; prices; rate; returns; run; stock; stock market; stock returns; supply; test; variables cache: ijefi-2328.pdf plain text: ijefi-2328.txt item: #91 of 246 id: ijefi-2520 author: Belobragin, Victor Yakovlevich; Burak, Petr Iosifovich; Zvorykina, Tatiana Ivanovna; Rostanets, Victor Grigorievich; Magomedov, Shamil Magomedovich title: Topical Issues of the Theory and Practice of Import Substitution in the Russian Federation date: 2016-06-03 words: 8246 flesch: 45 summary: *Email: sss2800@mail.ru ABSTRACT The article analyzes the status and prospects of development of the activities of governing bodies and industries in the Russian Federation in the field of import substitution. Then, the process of import substitution slowed. keywords: development; economic; federation; food; import substitution; imports; industry; issues; production; products; quality; russian; standards; state; theory cache: ijefi-2520.pdf plain text: ijefi-2520.txt item: #92 of 246 id: ijefi-2528 author: Buneeva, Raisa Ilyinichna; Buneeva, Maria Vitalyevna; Toropov, Valery Valeryevich; Khryuchkina, Elena Alekxeevna title: Analysis of Researching Dynamics and Structure of Consumer Expenditure of the Russian Population date: 2016-06-03 words: 5319 flesch: 43 summary: In 2013 in rural households consumer expenditures for food topped and achieved RUB 4,073.8 per month per one household member. The article shows the results of the analysis related to the researches that prove the influence of the consumer factor on the level of people’s lives by dynamics and structure of consumer expenditures. keywords: children; consumer; consumption; expenditures; families; households cache: ijefi-2528.pdf plain text: ijefi-2528.txt item: #93 of 246 id: ijefi-2531 author: Dudin, Mihail Nikolaevich; Sekerin, Vladimir Dmitriyevich; Gorohova, Anna Evgenevna; Gayduk, Vladimir Ivanovich; Danko, Tamara Petrovna title: Gold and its Determining Role in Modernization and Technological Processes Related to Changing Geo-economic Structure of the World date: 2016-06-03 words: 7395 flesch: 53 summary: It is necessary to note that the development of new technologies and changes of traditional financial instruments in the people’s perception considerably affected the world market of gold and bore such a new phenomenon as digital gold currency. Gold remains an important element of global currency reserves • Members of the agreement will coordinate their transactions with gold in order to avoid market shocks • Members of the agreement will not sell considerable volumes of gold • keywords: countries; currency; currency reserves; economic; economy; geo; gold; international; reserves; role; system; usa; world cache: ijefi-2531.pdf plain text: ijefi-2531.txt item: #94 of 246 id: ijefi-2538 author: Karsakovich, Konstantin Aleksandrovich title: The Formation of the Operating Interaction Mechanism of the Public and Corporate Finances in the Sphere of Social Service of the Population: Methodology, Theory and Practice date: 2016-06-03 words: 5389 flesch: 30 summary: A part of the non-state organizations, individual entrepreneurs who render social services, in total quantity of establishments of all ownership forms of social service. The Act (Federal law from December 28, 2013 No. 442-FL “On the basis of social services for citizens in Russian Federation”) contains the norms providing control (supervision) in the sphere of social service, including public control. keywords: interaction; mechanism; ministry; population; russian federation; service; social; sphere; state cache: ijefi-2538.pdf plain text: ijefi-2538.txt item: #95 of 246 id: ijefi-2568 author: Azam, Muhammad; Haseeb, Muhammad; Samsi, Aznita binti; Raji, Jimoh Olajide title: Stock Market Development and Economic Growth: Evidences from Asia-4 Countries date: 2016-07-23 words: 7696 flesch: 54 summary: Our results suggest that there is long-term cointegration among economic growth, foreign direct investment (FDI), stock market development and inflation. The empirical findings of the study reveal that stock market development and FDI inflows play vital roles in the process of economic growth and development in these selected countries. keywords: countries; development; economic; fdi; growth; journal; market; market development; relationship; results; stock; stock market; study cache: ijefi-2568.pdf plain text: ijefi-2568.txt item: #96 of 246 id: ijefi-2570 author: Mohd-Sanusi, Zuraidah; Motjaba-Nia, Shayan; Roosle, Nurul A.; Sari, Ria Nelly; Harjitok, Agus title: Effects of Corporate Governance Structures on Enterprise Risk Management Practices in Malaysia date: 2017-01-13 words: 6714 flesch: 45 summary: An examination of corporate governance mechanisms namely the board independence, institutional ownership, and audit quality including ERM governance structures that is RMC in emerging market such as Malaysia provides useful information to our regulators in enhancing and promoting more transparency and openness through corporate risk management practices. The study derived the aggregate ERM scores in measuring the relevant control and risk management practices of PLCs. keywords: board; control; enterprise; erm; firms; governance; malaysia; management; practices; risk; risk management; rmc; study cache: ijefi-2570.pdf plain text: ijefi-2570.txt item: #97 of 246 id: ijefi-2572 author: Hassan, Sallahuddin; Murtala, Musa title: The Role of Domestic Private Investment in Promoting Per Capita Income Convergence amongst Association of Southeast Asian Nations-5 Economies date: 2016-10-21 words: 3502 flesch: 50 summary: The second basis for income convergence has to do with technology transmission. Ben-David, D. (1993), Equalizing exchange: Trade liberalization and income convergence. keywords: capita; convergence; data; economies; income; investment; journal; panel cache: ijefi-2572.pdf plain text: ijefi-2572.txt item: #98 of 246 id: ijefi-2576 author: Zameni, Abdolhossein; Yong, Othman title: Lock-up Expiry and Trading Volume Behaviour of Malaysian Initial Public Offering's date: 2016-06-12 words: 9295 flesch: 67 summary: Furthermore, when we do not adjust the trading volume for the market, the CPRA methodology does not show abnormal trading volume between event window and non-event windows. Bajo (2010) argues that abnormal trading volume is inline with Fama’s et al., hypothesis (1969), if it is simultaneous with announcing of new information. keywords: day; event; expiration; expiry; ipo; lock; market; period; trading; trading volume; volume cache: ijefi-2576.pdf plain text: ijefi-2576.txt item: #99 of 246 id: ijefi-2605 author: Ibrahim, Mohammed Yussoff; Ahmad, Ayoib Che; Khan, Muhammad Anees title: Improving Shareholder Value through Corporate Governance Mechanism in Malaysian Listed Companies date: 2016-06-12 words: 4497 flesch: 38 summary: While Postma (2001), found no relation in between independent director on the board and SHV. At the end it can be argued that studies concerning the effect of independent directors on shareholders’ value come to no end. The paper conceptualized four attributes (Separate leadership, proportion of Independent director, independent chairman, independence of nomination committee) from CG mechanism in relation to SHV in companies listed on BURSA Malaysia. keywords: board; committee; director; firm; governance; independence; performance; shv cache: ijefi-2605.pdf plain text: ijefi-2605.txt item: #100 of 246 id: ijefi-2614 author: Akbar, Jalal ud Din; Ghazali, Zulkipli B. title: The Mediating Influence of Team Alignment on the Relationship between Plant Turnaround Maintenance Planning and Plant Turnaround Maintenance Performance date: 2016-06-12 words: 5470 flesch: 45 summary: The study found that there is a positive influence for team alignment mediating the relationship between plant turnaround maintenance planning and performance. • To identify the effect of mediation of team alignment on the relationship between plant turnaround planning and performance. keywords: alignment; business; journal; maintenance; management; performance; planning; plant; plant turnaround; relationship; team; turnaround; turnaround maintenance cache: ijefi-2614.pdf plain text: ijefi-2614.txt item: #101 of 246 id: ijefi-2617 author: Elvin, Pang; Abdul Hamid, Nik Intan Norhan Bt title: Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance and Firm Performance date: 2016-06-12 words: 8989 flesch: 40 summary: While many previous studies have examined the direct effect of ownership structure, corporate governance and firm performance, there is a need of comprehension on how the different types of ownership structures and corporate governance practices impact on the firm performance. This study aims to achieve few results, firstly, Elvin and Hamid: Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance and Firm Performance International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 6 • Special Issue (S3) • 2016 105 to identify the relationship between ownership structures and corporate governance (Hypotheses 1-10), secondly, to examine the effects of ownership structure on firm performance (Hypotheses 11 and 12), thirdly, to examine the effects of corporate governance on firm performance (Hypotheses 13 and 14), and lastly, to identify the relationship between ownership structure, corporate governance and firm performance associate with control variables (CVs) (Hypotheses 15 and 16). keywords: agent; board; directors; family; firm; governance; international; journal; malaysia; management; ownership; ownership structure; performance; relationship; structures; study cache: ijefi-2617.pdf plain text: ijefi-2617.txt item: #102 of 246 id: ijefi-2623 author: Safdar, Muhammad Zulqarnain; Awan, Muhammad Zahid; Ahmed, Zeeshan; Qureshi, Muhammad Imran; Hasnain, Tafakhar title: What Does Matter? Liquidity or Profitability: A Case of Sugar Industry in Pakistan date: 2016-06-12 words: 7558 flesch: 47 summary: The problem addressed here stipulates the identification of liquidity profitability trade off in sugar industry. POLICY IMPLICATIONS Current research plays an aide in the existing knowledge base of liquidity profitability trade off particularly in sugar industries. keywords: analysis; capital; journal; liquidity; management; model; profitability; ratio; return; sugar; value; variables cache: ijefi-2623.pdf plain text: ijefi-2623.txt item: #103 of 246 id: ijefi-2636 author: Tumanyants, Karen; Gulyaeva, Eugenia V. title: Individual Choice of a Pension Fund in Russia: Are the Investment Results of the Fund Important? date: 2016-10-21 words: 7765 flesch: 50 summary: The volume of return and yield, published by NPF, includes the compensation of all expenses and reflects a net financial result from pension savings investments allocated on the client’s account. Finansovaja Analitika: Problemy i Resheniya, (Financial Analytics: Problems and Ways of Solution), 5, 31-42. Tumanyants, K.A., Utuchenkova, M.V. (2014), Analiz kachestva investirovaniya pensionnykh nakoplenij v Rossii s ispol’zovaniem bjenchmark-metoda (Analysis of pension savings investment in Russia with a benchmark method), Finansovaja Analitika: Problemy i Resheniya (Financial Analytics: Problems and Ways of Solution), 24, 44-56. Valdés-Prieto, S. (2007), Pension reform and the development of pension systems: An evaluation of Word Bank Assistance. keywords: choice; economics; fund; investment; market; model; npf; number; pension; pension fund; pension savings; results; savings; yield cache: ijefi-2636.pdf plain text: ijefi-2636.txt item: #104 of 246 id: ijefi-2643 author: Peiró, Amado title: Changes in the Unconditional Variance and Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity date: 2016-10-21 words: 5848 flesch: 61 summary: One of the main reasons that underlie this huge interest in ARCH models is the profusion of economic series that seem to present ARCH effects. Though ARCH effects are not denied, this evidence, together with some empirical results obtained from Standard & Poor’s 500 returns, allows one to question whether they are a general and regular property of so many economic and financial series. keywords: arch; process; returns; variables cache: ijefi-2643.pdf plain text: ijefi-2643.txt item: #105 of 246 id: ijefi-2697 author: Adewuyi, Abdurraheem, Abdulazeez; Naim, Asmadi, Mohamed title: The Nexus Between Rates of Return on Deposits of Islamic Banks and Interest Rates on Deposits of Conventional Banks in a Dual Banking System: A Cross Country Study date: 2016-07-05 words: 5855 flesch: 54 summary: The study employs VAR order selection procedure and Johansen cointegration test to determine the existence of a long-run relationship between Islamic profit rates and conventional bank IR in Malaysia. This allows for a broader view of the effect of conventional IR on the ROR of Islamic bank deposits. keywords: banking; banks; deposits; islamic; malaysia; rates; ror; run; study cache: ijefi-2697.pdf plain text: ijefi-2697.txt item: #106 of 246 id: ijefi-28 author: Aslan, Alper; Koksal, Kemal; Ocal, Oguz title: Competitive Environment Hypothesis in Turkish Banking System date: 2011-06-16 words: 1726 flesch: 55 summary: This article aims to examine profit persistence in Turkish banking system by employing panel unit root methodology. This is very widely known as profit persistence. keywords: banking; competition; persistence; profit; system cache: ijefi-28.pdf plain text: ijefi-28.txt item: #107 of 246 id: ijefi-2849 author: Bulkhairova, Zhanna Serikovna; Alenova, Karlygash Toleubaevna; Nukesheva, Anar Zhaskaratovna; Ismailova, Aliya Sabirzhanovna title: Assessment of Human Capital in the Agricultural Enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan date: 2016-08-13 words: 8574 flesch: 45 summary: The form of human manifestation of productive forces in a market economy, included in the socially oriented market economy as the leading creative factor of social reproduction Source: Made by the author Bulkhairova, et al.: Assessment of Human Capital in the Agricultural Enterprises of the Republic of Kazakhstan International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 6 • Special Issue (S5) • 2016 55 Table 2: Indicators of the level of human capital development in the regions Modalities for the functioning of human capital The results of the application of human capital 1. According to the method of factor analysis in agriculture, the dynamics of human capital development, changes in the conditions of functioning of human capital (factor characteristic) and the results of functioning of human capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan (productive characteristic) are determined by the change of 11 factors/indicators selected in the Table 11, characterized by the numerical value of Pi. keywords: agriculture; areas; capital; development; entropy; human; indicators; kazakhstan cache: ijefi-2849.pdf plain text: ijefi-2849.txt item: #108 of 246 id: ijefi-2861 author: Bilal, Zaroug Osman; Durrah, Omar Mohammad; Atiya, Tariq Mohamed title: Comparative Study on Performance of Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks: Evidence from Oman date: 2016-10-21 words: 5575 flesch: 56 summary: Profitability Performance The most common measure of bank performance is profitability. International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 6 • Issue 4 • 2016 1835 Comparative Study on Performance of Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks: Evidence from Oman Zaroug Osman Bilal1*, Omar Mohammad Durrah2, Tariq Mohamed Atiya3 1Department of Accounting and Finance, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman, 2Department of Management and Marketing, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman, 3Department of Management and Marketing, College of Commerce and Business Administration, Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman. keywords: banks; cbs; difference; financial; ibs; islamic; oman; performance; profitability; study cache: ijefi-2861.pdf plain text: ijefi-2861.txt item: #109 of 246 id: ijefi-2892 author: Haladu, Alhassan; Salim, Basariah Bt. title: Corporate Ownership and Sustainability Reporting: Environmental Agencies' Moderating Effects date: 2016-10-21 words: 5771 flesch: 42 summary: Where ownership control is vested in local hands, environmental disclosure tend to be poor. The aim of this paper is to investigate the association between ownership structure based on foreign and indigenous ownership, and environmental disclosure by quoted firms in the Nigerian economy. keywords: disclosure; environmental; firms; information; issues; journal; management; ownership; relationship; reporting; structure cache: ijefi-2892.pdf plain text: ijefi-2892.txt item: #110 of 246 id: ijefi-2896 author: ismael, Ahmed Yousif Adam title: The Impact of Creative Accounting Techniques on the Reliability of Financial Reporting with Particular Reference to Saudi Auditors and Academics date: 2017-04-03 words: 7219 flesch: 39 summary: (Gaara et al., 2015) light that the misuse of creative accounting techniques leads the users of accounting information care continuously concern about creative accounting. The result deduces that creative accounting techniques used by management negatively affect the reliability of financial reporting. keywords: accounting; accounting techniques; agree; auditors; impact; information; journal; practices; reliability; reporting; reports; study; techniques cache: ijefi-2896.pdf plain text: ijefi-2896.txt item: #111 of 246 id: ijefi-29 author: Haque, Abdul; Liu, Hung Chun; Nisa, Fakhar Un title: Testing the Week Form Efficiency of Pakistani Stock Market (2000-2010) date: 2011-10-15 words: 6337 flesch: 63 summary: Although empirically different techniques, ranging from parametric to non-parametric tests, have been applied to diagnose the WFE of stock market but each of them focuses on the RWH. Email: fakharunnisa@ciitlahore.edu.pk ABSTRACT: This empirical paper tests out the weak form efficiency of Pakistani stock market by examining the weekly 100KSE index over the period 2000 2010 . keywords: efficiency; form; hypothesis; market; results; series; stock; t t; test cache: ijefi-29.pdf plain text: ijefi-29.txt item: #112 of 246 id: ijefi-3 author: Karadeniz, Erdinc; Kandır, Serkan Yılmaz; Iskenderoglu, Omer; Onal, Yıldırım Beyazit title: Firm Size and Capital Structure Decisions: Evidence From Turkish Lodging Companies date: 2011-05-15 words: 6359 flesch: 53 summary: Since assets of lodging companies mostly consist of fixed assets, share of long-term debt and owners’ equity naturally increase. They find that lodging companies appear to use internal funds and Firm Size and Capital Structure Decisions: Evidence From Turkish Lodging Companies 3 debt, respectively, in their investment stage. keywords: capital; companies; debt; financial; financing; firm; lodging; lodging companies; order; size; structure; theory cache: ijefi-3.pdf plain text: ijefi-3.txt item: #113 of 246 id: ijefi-3047 author: Tomfort, Andre title: Detecting Asset Price Bubbles: A Multifactor Approach date: 2017-01-13 words: 8071 flesch: 58 summary: Often these cases were regarded as asset price bubbles. 2. BACKGROUND A first problem analysing asset price bubbles is that there is no commonly accepted view what an asset price bubble really is. keywords: approach; asset; asset price; bubble; credit; housing; investment; market; price; source; value; variables cache: ijefi-3047.pdf plain text: ijefi-3047.txt item: #114 of 246 id: ijefi-3067 author: Skachkova, Maria Evgenievna; Lepikhina, Olga Jurjevna title: Methods of Standard Rates of Financial Expenses Calculation on Landscaped Areas Maintenance (on the example of St. Petersburg, Russia) date: 2016-10-21 words: 4702 flesch: 51 summary: Uneven arrangement of the territories of green plantings within the borders of St. Petersburg, owing to which the indicator of green plantings security, for example, for general use, may vary from 3.5 to 82.0 m2/capita depending on the administrative area. The article is devoted to development of system of indicators for identification of volumes of works per unit of measurement, necessary to form costs for works on maintenance of objects and the territories of green plantings of St. Petersburg. keywords: gugp; hectare; maintenance; objects; petersburg; plantings; trees; works cache: ijefi-3067.pdf plain text: ijefi-3067.txt item: #115 of 246 id: ijefi-3100 author: Handika, Rangga; Triandaru, Sigit title: Retailer Value-at-Risk in Interconnected Power Markets: An Australian Empirical Analysis date: 2016-10-04 words: 3097 flesch: 60 summary: 5. DATA AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS We obtained the daily series of Australian power market prices in four interconnected markets (NSW, QLD, SA and VIC) from the AEMO website. Overall, we can observe that GARCH (1,1) method tends to perform best in modeling power price change volatility from investors’ perspective. keywords: market; model; perspective; power; price; var; volatility cache: ijefi-3100.pdf plain text: ijefi-3100.txt item: #116 of 246 id: ijefi-3138 author: Aribawa, Dwitya title: E-Commerce Strategic Business Environment Analysis in Indonesia date: 2016-10-04 words: 3778 flesch: 40 summary: This is an insight of e-commerce business in Indonesia entering rapid leap of growth. Indonesia E-commerce Association or known as IdEA is an official entity for e-commerce business in Indonesia. keywords: analysis; business; commerce; environment; indonesia; industry; information; research; technology cache: ijefi-3138.pdf plain text: ijefi-3138.txt item: #117 of 246 id: ijefi-3142 author: Shittu, Isah; Ahmad, Ayoib Che; Ishak, Zuaini title: Board Characteristics and Earnings Per Share of Malaysian Islamic Banks date: 2016-10-04 words: 2247 flesch: 47 summary: This study empirically examined the influence of BS, shariah supervisory board and shariah board meetings on the EPS of Malaysian Islamic banks. The correlation matrix table revealed a positive correlation of 0.2505 for BSIZE, the negative correlation of 0.3462 for SBSIZE, positive correlation of 0.0179 for SBMEET and positive correlation of 0.0034 for LTASSET and EPS Malaysian Islamic banks. keywords: banks; board; eps; islamic; malaysian; shariah cache: ijefi-3142.pdf plain text: ijefi-3142.txt item: #118 of 246 id: ijefi-3189 author: Al-Qaisi, Khaldoun Maddallah; Al-Batayneh, Rafat Mohd Soudki title: Credit Default Swap and Liquidity date: 2017-04-18 words: 3441 flesch: 58 summary: The relationship between liquidity risk and credit risk The loss which triggered by the default of a debtor is called credit risk, and the risk is maximum when the probability becomes one. Hertrich, M. (2014), Does credit risk impact liquidity risk? keywords: bid; credit; credit risk; liquidity; liquidity risk; market; risk; spread cache: ijefi-3189.pdf plain text: ijefi-3189.txt item: #119 of 246 id: ijefi-3206 author: Ifere, Eugene Okoi; Okosu, Napoleon David title: Can Optimal Digital Innovation and Financial Inclusion Drive Poverty Reduction in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria? date: 2017-01-13 words: 6493 flesch: 47 summary: The study surveyed the extent of poverty using monthly income distribution, and degree of financial inclusion using access and usage of products and services. The study suggests that the provisions of optimal digital financial services and products in this rural community with adequate education and advocacy for all the population will broaden financial inclusion, thereby contributing to poverty reduction. keywords: access; bank; delta; inclusion; niger; niger delta; nigeria; population; poverty; products; region; services; survey cache: ijefi-3206.pdf plain text: ijefi-3206.txt item: #120 of 246 id: ijefi-3363 author: Nursini, Nursini title: Effect of Fiscal Policy and Trade Openness on Economic Growth in Indonesia:1990-2015 date: 2017-01-13 words: 6212 flesch: 55 summary: *Email: nini_mahmud@yahoo.com ABSTRACT This study examines empirically the effect of fiscal policy and trade openness on economic growth in Indonesia for the period 1990-2015. This study finds government spending on infrastructure and human resources have positive and significant effect on economic growth if they are financed by tax revenue and insignificant if they are financed by foreign loans. keywords: countries; effect; expenditure; government; growth; indonesia; openness; policy; spending; tax; trade; trade openness cache: ijefi-3363.pdf plain text: ijefi-3363.txt item: #121 of 246 id: ijefi-3559 author: Muinde, Patrick Mumo; Karanja, James Mwangi title: Kenya Commercial Banks are Star Performers –Myth or Truth? Exploratory Empirical Evidence from Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) date: 2017-01-13 words: 9126 flesch: 54 summary: First difference of the natural log of EXR β4CSt = Credit spread (weighted commercial bank rates - interbank rates) KBRR is an outcome of a consultative process led by industry stake holders, the CBK and the national treasury with the main objective as to tackle the problems of high interest rates in Kenya, by bringing stability and predictability to the base rate. keywords: average; banking; banking sector; banks; commercial; data; industry; interest; kenya; market; period; portfolio; rates; returns; sector; stock cache: ijefi-3559.pdf plain text: ijefi-3559.txt item: #122 of 246 id: ijefi-3560 author: Anokhina, Marina Yegorovna; Zinchuk, Galina Mikhailovna; Butov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich title: Theoretical and Empirical studies of Economic Growth Processes of Agricultural Production in Russian Federation date: 2017-04-03 words: 5448 flesch: 34 summary: Economic growth theory incorporates the methodology of describing economic cycles. *Email: marina_anokhina@mail.ru ABSTRACT Based on the analysis of the economic growth theories, economic cyclicality and industrial markets the article presents a concept of economic growth of industrial complexes. keywords: aic; complex; dynamics; factors; growth; level; production; russian; theories; theory cache: ijefi-3560.pdf plain text: ijefi-3560.txt item: #123 of 246 id: ijefi-3583 author: Abidin, Shamharir; Ishaya, Ishaku Vandi; M-Nor, Mohamad Naimi title: The Association between Corporate Governance and Auditor Switching Decision date: 2016-11-20 words: 3416 flesch: 50 summary: Generally, evidence suggests that auditor switches could diminish users’ confidence in the audited financial statements which further could inhibit the flow of capital in the securities markets and subsequently increased capital costs (Knapp and Elikai, 1988). Despite the importance of understanding the motivations for, or determinants of, auditor switch, little has been done to investigate the issue, particularly in emerging market such as Malaysia. keywords: auditor; board; ceo; governance; switch; value cache: ijefi-3583.pdf plain text: ijefi-3583.txt item: #124 of 246 id: ijefi-3584 author: Glazyrina, Irina; Lavlinskii, Sergey title: Transaction Costs and Prospects for Public-private Partnership in the Russian Mineral Resourse Sector date: 2017-01-13 words: 8565 flesch: 45 summary: In the general case, the environmental block contains a set of environmental project models to implement a range of compensatory actions such as resettlement from the flooding zone, protection from flash flooding, protective measures against ice weakening, etc. Methodologically, investment projects become PPP projects only when a private company finances the construction and (or) operation of state-owned objects (Groute, 1997). keywords: construction; costs; development; economic; infrastructure; investment; investor; mineral; model; ppp; ppp model; project; russian; state cache: ijefi-3584.pdf plain text: ijefi-3584.txt item: #125 of 246 id: ijefi-3585 author: Jedin, Mohd Haniff; Saad, Norsafinas Md title: Relationship Engagement in Mergers and Acquisitions through Collegial Leadership date: 2016-11-20 words: 3778 flesch: 43 summary: Figure 1 shows the conceptual framework of collegiality leadership and relationship engagement in M&A. H1 (+): The higher the initiative of collegial leadership, the better the relationship engagement between acquirer and the acquired firm. Similarly, the relationship also supported between relationship engagement and M&A performance. keywords: acquisitions; engagement; firms; international; journal; leadership; m&a; performance; relationship cache: ijefi-3585.pdf plain text: ijefi-3585.txt item: #126 of 246 id: ijefi-3586 author: Khan, Shazida Jan Mohd; Noor, Nur Syamilah Md.; Anuar, Abdul Rahim title: Performance of Youth Entrepreneurs In Malaysia Micro Small and Medium Enterprises date: 2016-11-20 words: 4731 flesch: 42 summary: The study analyses the relationship of business support program, infrastructure facility and government policy with the performance of youth entrepreneurs that involved in micro SMEs within their 3 years Table 2: Support program by the agency Agency Support program AIM • Provide financial, guidance and training to the entrepreneurs of poor and low-income families. Over the years, Malaysia government has attributes to a number of supports programs to the SMEs sector. keywords: business; development; facility; government; information; infrastructure; malaysia; micro; performance; policy; smes; support; youth cache: ijefi-3586.pdf plain text: ijefi-3586.txt item: #127 of 246 id: ijefi-3588 author: Ghazali, Mohamad Zulkurnai; Saad, Ram Al Jaffri; Wahab, Muhammad Syahir Abdul title: A Conceptual Framework for Examining Trust towards Zakat Institution date: 2016-11-20 words: 3451 flesch: 48 summary: Thus, the following hypothesis is suggested: H2: Communication between zakat institution and zakat payers will have a positive influence on trust towards zakat institutions amongst Moslem business owners. *Email: zulghazali@uum.edu.my ABSTRACT This paper aims to propose a research conceptual framework for examining trust towards zakat institution amongst Moslem business owners. keywords: business; distribution; framework; institution; journal; malaysia; trust; zakat; zakat institution cache: ijefi-3588.pdf plain text: ijefi-3588.txt item: #128 of 246 id: ijefi-3606 author: Wahab, Muhammad Syahir Abdul; Saad, Ram Al-Jaffri; Samsudin, Mohammed Amir Mat title: An Investigation of Situational Inhibitors to Informal Learning amongst Accountants date: 2016-11-20 words: 3073 flesch: 46 summary: Therefore, in this research situational inhibitors refer to situational factors within a public accounting firm environment that can inhibit accountants from informal learning activities. 4. RESEARCH FINDINGS To investigate the situational inhibitors to the learning, the following questions were posed to the research participants during the interview sessions: “What are the situational inhibitors to informal learning activities” and “How the inhibitors influence your informal learning activities? keywords: accountants; activities; inhibitors; learning; research; situational; workplace cache: ijefi-3606.pdf plain text: ijefi-3606.txt item: #129 of 246 id: ijefi-3624 author: Zainol, Zairani; Nizam, Aini Nur Hajjar Khairol; Rashid, Rosemaliza Ab title: Exploring the Concept of Debt from the Perspective of the Objectives of the Shariah date: 2016-11-20 words: 8973 flesch: 66 summary: Debt should only be incurred for the purpose of necessity (daruriyyat) where the absence of debt might bring harm to the person in need. Definitions and Basic Concept of Debt in Islam The definition of debt according to Islam could be viewed from several aspects. keywords: allah; concept; debt; islam; islamic; life; necessity; need; objectives; people; property; prophet; research; shariah cache: ijefi-3624.pdf plain text: ijefi-3624.txt item: #130 of 246 id: ijefi-3737 author: Klyuchnikov, Denis A.; Shichiyakh, Rustem A.; Kolpak, Eugeny P.; Tupchienko, Vitaly A.; Volodin, Viktor M.; Isaev, Albert K. title: Features of Social and Economic Support of the Territorial Subjects of the Russian Federation date: 2016-12-04 words: 4890 flesch: 42 summary: With the current state of the federal and regional budgets in Russia, the realization of targeted social assistance cannot set the task to overcome the poverty completely, which is actually implied in the laws “On the subsistence minimum in the Russian Federation” and “On state social assistance.” Targeted social assistance can be provided on a nonrecurring basis for a period not <3 months. keywords: assistance; federation; life; method; population; qaly; quality; russian; state; support; utility cache: ijefi-3737.pdf plain text: ijefi-3737.txt item: #131 of 246 id: ijefi-3738 author: Glyzina, Maria P.; Telesh, Andrey D.; Muradova, Safura S.; Chernykh, Anatoly I.; Smolentsev, Vitaly M.; Koroleva, Elvira V. title: Psychological Aspects of Management and Economics of Higher Education date: 2016-12-04 words: 3790 flesch: 21 summary: The conscious motivation for learning helped students to develop independence in finding the right knowledge, formed the skills to use information systems computer technology. Therefore, it is necessary to create in the educational process of the system of conditions for the formation of key information technology competencies, which we presented in didactic, organizational, pedagogical and psycho-pedagogical. keywords: development; education; information; knowledge; management; process; students; technology cache: ijefi-3738.pdf plain text: ijefi-3738.txt item: #132 of 246 id: ijefi-3742 author: Waheed, Abdul title: Determinants of External Debt: A Panel Data Analysis for Oil & Gas Exporting and Importing Countries date: 2017-01-13 words: 5300 flesch: 49 summary: The increase in trade defi it, international price of oil, interest payment on external debt, FDI and domestic investment are resulting in higher external debt in oil and gas importing countries. *Email: awaheed@uob.edu.bh ABSTRACT This study investigates the macroeconomic determinants of external debt in oil and gas exporting and importing countries. keywords: countries; data; debt; determinants; economic; exporting; gas; gdp; importing; oil; panel cache: ijefi-3742.pdf plain text: ijefi-3742.txt item: #133 of 246 id: ijefi-3743 author: Reznichenko, Sergey M.; Vasilieva, Nadezhda K.; Shichiyakh, Rustem A.; Medvedeva, Yulia M.; Mindlin, Yurii B. title: Agrarian Policy of the Region in Terms of Economic Development Innovation date: 2016-12-04 words: 4341 flesch: 15 summary: Future the process of implementation of market policy reforms in agricultural policy of the economic sector of the country represents a complex of measures with separation of the main and priority directions for the supply of efficient formation of the agricultural sector. For such functioning, not big on their activities and the sphere of dissemination of the firms flexibility and simplified system management apparatus, there is a wide scope of individual initiative actions that have the possibility of a flexible system of NTP, can be traced to the active involvement of its core business innovators and inventors with unique ideas to improve the processes that are acceptable in the field of agricultural policy. keywords: agrarian; cluster; development; economy; innovation; policy; production; region; sector; state cache: ijefi-3743.pdf plain text: ijefi-3743.txt item: #134 of 246 id: ijefi-3744 author: Mindlin, Yurii B.; Novikov, Sergey V.; Kireev, Sergey V.; Adamenko, Alexsandr A.; Belitskaya, Oksana V. title: Innovative Territorial Clusters date: 2016-12-04 words: 4296 flesch: 25 summary: Innovative Territorial Clusters International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 6 • Special Issue (S8) • 2016252 However, the Russian economic science is not yet unified approach to the definition of territorial clusters (Zakharov et al., 2016), insufficient methodological support of the diagnostic potential of clusterization of choosing the optimal model of cluster innovation policy, taking into account the specifics of development of economic system, estimation of efficiency of innovative cluster development in a particular area. Policy of innovative development cluster is reflected in the activities of the Titan cluster, cluster aircraft and shipbuilding Khabarovsk territory. keywords: activities; clusters; development; economic; innovative; international; policy; region; research; russian; state cache: ijefi-3744.pdf plain text: ijefi-3744.txt item: #135 of 246 id: ijefi-3782 author: Cong, Phan The; Lich, Hoang Khac title: The Driving Forces of Economic Growth Before and After the 2008 Global Financial Crisis date: 2017-01-13 words: 6267 flesch: 51 summary: Some economic theories explain why economic growth rates are different across countries. *Email: congpt@tmu.edu.vn ABSTRACT This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth in two different periods, 2002-2008 and 2008-2013. keywords: consumption; countries; economic; expenditure; government; growth; impact; investment; labor; period cache: ijefi-3782.pdf plain text: ijefi-3782.txt item: #136 of 246 id: ijefi-3848 author: Gambetti, Elisa; Giusberti, Fiorella title: Housing Loans: What About Personality Traits? date: 2017-04-03 words: 6433 flesch: 50 summary: Mortgage loans typically are long-term contracts that require periodic payments in order to cover interest and capital sum. The financial marketplace offers many types of mortgage loans, which are differentiated by two principal factors: The amount of principal and interest payments over the life of the mortgage, and the duration of the mortgage loan. keywords: anxiety; control; extraversion; housing; loan; mindedness; mortgage; personality; rate; risk; self; traits cache: ijefi-3848.pdf plain text: ijefi-3848.txt item: #137 of 246 id: ijefi-3868 author: Dudin, Mihail Nikolaevich; Ivashchenko, Natalia Pavlovna; Frolova, Еvgenia Еvgenevna; Abashidze, Aslan Huseynovich; Smbatyan, Anait Sergeevna title: Innovative Approach to the Development of the Logistics System of Supply of the Arctic Region Space date: 2017-01-24 words: 5358 flesch: 40 summary: In other words, Russia uses target-oriented approach to supply the Arctic territories, while the countries of North America and Europe (European North) use a mixed approach (process of regular supply of Arctic territories includes the programs of delivery of special goods during the spring-summer navigation) (Dudin et al 2016; Lukin 2010; Smith 2010). The authors did not consider separate methodological issues on improving the institutional environment of the arctic logistics and harmonization of national and international organizational, economic and legal approaches to environmentally responsible development of Arctic territories in this article. keywords: arctic; damage; development; environmental; facilities; facility; logistics; reserves; resources; supply cache: ijefi-3868.pdf plain text: ijefi-3868.txt item: #138 of 246 id: ijefi-3879 author: Motorygin, Yury D.; Artamonov, Vladimir S.; Maximov, Alexander V.; Trofimets, Elena N.; Trofimets, Valeriy Y. title: Management of the Formation of Rating Preferences of Economic Entities upon Collective Choice date: 2017-01-17 words: 5956 flesch: 48 summary: For this purpose, two directions - the parallel use of methods (simultaneous use of different methods at the same stage of the problem solution) and sequential use of methods (the use of different methods at different stages of the problem solution) - can be distinguished. Formation of Rating Preferences Based on the Kemeny Median With the formation of rating preferences, the natural presumption is that the final ranking should be as close as possible to the preference profiles (rankings) based on different methods. keywords: arithmetic; enterprises; entities; formation; means; method; preferences; ranking; ranks; rating; rating preferences; table cache: ijefi-3879.pdf plain text: ijefi-3879.txt item: #139 of 246 id: ijefi-3893 author: Tabash, Mosab I. title: The Role of Tourism Sector in Economic Growth: An Empirical Evidence From Palestine date: 2017-04-03 words: 4085 flesch: 56 summary: This paper tries to investigate the relationship between economic tourism sector and economic growth in case of state of Palestine. Tourism growth in any economy not only leads to economic development but also leads to advancements in other parts of the host country such as political, cultural and social environment. keywords: gdp; growth; international; palestine; relationship; results; sector; test; tourism cache: ijefi-3893.pdf plain text: ijefi-3893.txt item: #140 of 246 id: ijefi-4047 author: Gozali, Lina; Masrom, Maslin; Haron, Habibah Norehan; Zagloel, Teuku Yuri M. title: Research Gap of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Economic Development, Business Incubators Studies in Indonesia date: 2017-04-03 words: 5168 flesch: 37 summary: Research Gap of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Economic Development, Business Incubators Studies in Indonesia International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 7 • Issue 2 • 2017 245 In Indonesia, cooperative department and small enterprises (1998/1999) and the Ministry of Cooperative and SMEs of Indonesia (Menteri Negara Koperasi dan Usaha Kecil dan Menengah Republik Indonesia, 2002) stated that the basic concept of incubator is an institution that provides 7’s: • Space • Shared office facilities • Service which is a management counseling: Marketing, finance, production, technology and others • Support in terms of business research and development as well as access of technology usage • Skill development which is training, business plan formulation, management training and others • Seed capital and the effort to gain capital access to financial institution • Synergy which is creating an adequate business network, local and international. The purpose of this literature study and research to presents the current situation of the university–industry– government partnership in Indonesia, in the context of university readiness to contribute to the government strategy as outlined in the MP3EI (master plan for acceleration and expansion of Indonesia economic development) 2011-2025. keywords: business; development; economic; entrepreneurship; government; incubator; indonesia; innovation; research; study; technology; universities; university cache: ijefi-4047.pdf plain text: ijefi-4047.txt item: #141 of 246 id: ijefi-4104 author: Haughton, Andre Yone; Iglesias, Emma M. title: Exchange Rate Movements, Stock Prices and Volatility in the Caribbean and Latin America date: 2017-04-03 words: 9052 flesch: 64 summary: *Email: emma.iglesias@udc.es ABSTRACT We analyze the interrelationship between stock prices and exchange rates in the only two Caribbean countries with stock market and floating exchange rates: Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. 1. INTRODUCTION Research on the interaction between exchange rate and stock prices has received more attention since the recent global financial crisis. keywords: countries; crisis; exchange; exchange rate; jamaica; model; period; prices; rate; results; stock; stock prices; t t; variables cache: ijefi-4104.pdf plain text: ijefi-4104.txt item: #142 of 246 id: ijefi-4110 author: Oyewunmi, Olabode A.; Olusanmi, Olamide; Olujobi, Olusola J.; Adegboye, Folashade title: Corporate Regulation of Unethical Practices: Assessment of Nigeria's Commercial Banking Industry date: 2017-04-03 words: 4562 flesch: 37 summary: The focal point should thus be to advance and entrench the acceptable and legitimate avenues for creating corporate wealth as a veritable means to diminish the incidences of insider dealings amongst other unethical corporate practices. It is opined that there must be active collaborations between corporate stakeholders and the regulatory structures, particularly against the backdrop of Nigeria’s unfolding socio-economic peculiarities. keywords: banking; banking industry; banks; business; cbn; dealings; industry; insider; nigeria; practices cache: ijefi-4110.pdf plain text: ijefi-4110.txt item: #143 of 246 id: ijefi-42 author: Wahid, Abu N.M.; Shahbaz, Muhammad; Azim, Pervaz title: Inflation and Financial Sector Correlation: The Case of Bangladesh date: 2011-10-15 words: 3683 flesch: 47 summary: Naceur and Ghazouani (2007) using GMM approach report that inflation deteriorates financial development and financial development increases as inflation exceeds threshold point. This paper examines the impact of inflation on financial development in case of Bangladesh for the period of 1985-2005. keywords: development; economics; growth; inflation; journal; level; run; sector; variables cache: ijefi-42.pdf plain text: ijefi-42.txt item: #144 of 246 id: ijefi-4235 author: Balseven, Hale; Tugcu, Can Tansel title: Analyzing the Effects of Fiscal Policy On Income Distribution: A Comparison Between Developed and Developing Countries date: 2017-04-03 words: 5915 flesch: 47 summary: Especially in developed countries, the role of wage differentials in explaining income distribution inequality is appreciated to be important. Numbers in parentheses are P values Balseven and Tugcu: Analyzing the Effects of Fiscal Policy on Income Distribution: A Comparison between Developed and Developing Countries International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 7 • Issue 2 • 2017382 Estimates for developing country group indicated that, when the dependent variable is Gini_diff; only tax revenue was found as a statistically significant factor that increases the Gini coefficient. keywords: countries; data; distribution; effects; group; income; inequality; policy; study; tax; test; variables cache: ijefi-4235.pdf plain text: ijefi-4235.txt item: #145 of 246 id: ijefi-4253 author: Arintoko, Arintoko; Insukindro, Insukindro title: Effect of Exchange Rate, Foreign Direct Investment and Portfolio Investment on the Indonesian Economy: A Structural Cointegrating Vector Autoregression Approach date: 2017-04-14 words: 7431 flesch: 48 summary: Exchange rate variable has a positive response to all the unanticipated increase in the variables, except the interest rate shock. Exchange rate shock has an impact on the increase of output gap as shown in Figure 1. keywords: exchange rate; gap; interest rate; investment; model; output; portfolio investment; rate; shock; t t; term; variables cache: ijefi-4253.pdf plain text: ijefi-4253.txt item: #146 of 246 id: ijefi-43 author: Shaheen, Farzana; Haider, Azad; Javed, Sajid Amin title: Estimating Pakistan's Time Varying Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment: An Unobserved Component Approach date: 2011-10-15 words: 4098 flesch: 56 summary: The results are evident that estimated unemployment gap follows the post-reform business cycle in Poland. The overall of different studies suggests that there should be considerable caution to use NAIRU estimates as a guide for macroeconomic policy. keywords: inflation; kalman; nairu; pakistan; percent; rate; results; time; unemployment cache: ijefi-43.pdf plain text: ijefi-43.txt item: #147 of 246 id: ijefi-4370 author: Bader, Ahmad Ahed; Saleh, Mousa Mohammad Abdullah title: Evidence on the Extent of Cosmetic Earnings and Revenues Management by Jordanian Companies date: 2017-06-29 words: 9815 flesch: 41 summary: A cross-national comparison of small upward rounding of net income numbers among eighteen countries. Accordingly, the results for first digit not widely deviated from expected distribution, for second digit there are small deviations, but in general, income numbers are accurate. keywords: benford; chi; companies; digit; firms; income; law; numbers; rounding; sales cache: ijefi-4370.pdf plain text: ijefi-4370.txt item: #148 of 246 id: ijefi-4535 author: Bonga-Bonga, Lumengo title: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Monetary Policy Instrument during the Inflation Targeting Period in South Africa date: 2017-09-12 words: 5666 flesch: 52 summary: *Email: lbonga@uj.ac.za ABSTRACT Since the adoption of inflation rate targeting policy, there has been a great concern on the effectiveness of the monetary policy instrument to curb inflation in South Africa. With regards to the operations of inflation targeting policy, monetary authority sets an explicit target for inflation rate and communicates the target to the public. keywords: africa; bank; bonga; credit; figure; inflation; instrument; policy; rate; shocks; south; targeting cache: ijefi-4535.pdf plain text: ijefi-4535.txt item: #149 of 246 id: ijefi-4653 author: Niyimbanira, Ferdinand title: Analysis of the Impact of Economic Growth on Income Inequality and Poverty in South Africa: The Case of Mpumalanga Province date: 2017-07-29 words: 6963 flesch: 57 summary: On the other hand, high economic growth advances human development which, in turn, promotes economic growth. *Email: f.niyimbanira@ump.ac.za ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to estimate the impact of economic growth on income inequality and poverty using data from the Mpumalanga province in South Africa. keywords: africa; coefficient; data; gini; growth; income; income inequality; inequality; mpumalanga; poverty; results; south cache: ijefi-4653.pdf plain text: ijefi-4653.txt item: #150 of 246 id: ijefi-4664 author: Atmaca, Metin; Demirel, Engin title: Economic Impact on Financial Ratios of Food Industry at Istanbul Stock Exchange Listed Firms date: 2017-06-29 words: 4223 flesch: 47 summary: This research found that only poverty level and minimum wage has a positive impact on cash and working capital financial ratios and negative impact on sales profitability ratios of listed firms. Time series of financial ratios are obtained from firm’s financial statements. keywords: analysis; capital; coefficient; effect; equation; food; journal; profitability; ratio; results; study cache: ijefi-4664.pdf plain text: ijefi-4664.txt item: #151 of 246 id: ijefi-4671 author: Aydi, Mohamed; Aguir, Abdelkader title: Financial Development and Economic Growth: The Empirical Evidence of the Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMC) date: 2017-06-29 words: 8739 flesch: 50 summary: The positive effect of financial development on economic growth was initially studied by the authors of the school of financial repression namely McKinnon (1973) and Shaw (1973) and the authors of the liberal school namely Keynes and Hicks. The advantage of cointegration test is the detection of a stable long-term relationship between financial development and economic growth. keywords: banking; causality; countries; data; development; economic; evidence; gdp; growth; intermediation; journal; market; sector; series; stock; variables cache: ijefi-4671.pdf plain text: ijefi-4671.txt item: #152 of 246 id: ijefi-4679 author: Haddad, Akram Masoud title: The Impacts of the Inwards and Outwards FDI on the Development Measured By HDI: the Case of United Arab Emirate date: 2018-07-13 words: 10249 flesch: 51 summary: Though UAE investment policy limits foreign investment and reduces competition, the Government has undertaken reforms and contracted investment treaties that have encouraged investment. There are many reasons for these increases in the UAE investments outside the country among them the efforts of the government to build strong resource of income to the country after establishing the UAE investment Authority in 2007. keywords: arab; countries; country; development; fdi; foreign; growth; hdi; human; impact; inflow; investment; journal; outflow; uae; united cache: ijefi-4679.pdf plain text: ijefi-4679.txt item: #153 of 246 id: ijefi-47 author: Hamrita, Mohamed Essaied; Trifi, Abdelkader title: The Relationship between Interest Rate, Exchange Rate and Stock Price: A Wavelet Analysis date: 2011-10-19 words: 3931 flesch: 56 summary: Wavelet coefficients, i.e. tjw , ~ and scaling coefficients, i.e. tjv , ~ at levels j; j = 1, . . . MODWT provides the usual functions of the DWT, such as multiresolution decomposition analysis and cross-correlation analysis based on wavelet transform coefficients. keywords: correlation; exchange; interest; rate; returns; scale; series; stock; time; wavelet cache: ijefi-47.pdf plain text: ijefi-47.txt item: #154 of 246 id: ijefi-4715 author: Saidi, Ld Ode; Adam, Pasrun; Rostin, Rostin; Saenong, Zainuddin; Balaka, Muh. Yani; Gamsir, Gamsir; Asmuddin, Asmuddin; Salwiah, Salwiah title: The Effect of Stock Prices and Exchange Rates on Economic Growth in Indonesia date: 2017-06-29 words: 5817 flesch: 62 summary: *Email: lm.saidi@yahoo.co.id ABSTRACT This research aims to investigate the effect of stock prices and exchange rates on Indonesia economic growth. The result of stationary test showed that all of the time series of share prices, exchange rates, and economic growth are stationary at the first difference, or integrated of order one, I(1). keywords: data; economic; effect; exchange; exchange rates; growth; indonesia; prices; stock; stock prices; time cache: ijefi-4715.pdf plain text: ijefi-4715.txt item: #155 of 246 id: ijefi-4737 author: Nurdiniah, Dade; Pradika, Endra title: Effect of Good Corporate Governance, KAP Reputation, Its Size and Leverage on Integrity of Financial Statements date: 2017-07-27 words: 6262 flesch: 44 summary: Later research Harrison (2012) shows the positive effect on the quality audit financial statements integrity. Accordingly, the financial statements presented by management companies are expected to be free of material misstatement and the information is not misleading to the wearer. keywords: audit; company; effect; independent; integrity; leverage; research; results; size; statements; test cache: ijefi-4737.pdf plain text: ijefi-4737.txt item: #156 of 246 id: ijefi-4762 author: Ebi, Bassey Okon; Ayodele, Oluwafemi title: Tax Reforms and Tax Yield in Nigeria date: 2017-06-29 words: 9070 flesch: 55 summary: The results revealed that: All the tax components were inelastic, there was a general improvement in post-reformed tax elasticities ranging from 0.199 to 1.28 with petroleum profit tax and the total tax revenue having coefficients >1, values of tax buoyancies were all positive and <1, with post reform samples buoyancies being greater than that of common samples ranging from 0.13 to 0.93, tax reform was further confirms to improve tax revenues by positive and significant coefficients of the dummies. The responsiveness of tax revenue or yield to such changes can be explained with the Ebi and Ayodele: Tax Reforms and Tax Yield in Nigeria International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 7 • Issue 3 • 2017 769 help of tax elasticity and buoyancy (Timsina, 2008; Muibi and Sinbo, 2013; Mawia and Nzomol, 2013; Ebi and Aladejare, 2016). keywords: buoyancy; elasticity; gdp; income; nigeria; pit; ppt; revenue; study; tax; tax reforms; tax revenue; taxes cache: ijefi-4762.pdf plain text: ijefi-4762.txt item: #157 of 246 id: ijefi-4775 author: Yasmeen, Kausar; Viswanathan, Kuperan title: Influence of Country Factors on Entry Mode Through Knowledge and Transactional Cost Economics: Market Entry: Evidence from Construction Firms date: 2017-06-29 words: 4149 flesch: 54 summary: The risk is involved because of the unexpected demand, political instability and uncertainty, variation in cost and in other sudden market behavior, However, in other situation, the alternative situation of argument as per maximum risk can be linked w with firms entry which can lead to lower resources commitment. Entry mode has become important for firms. keywords: construction; cost; country; entry; entry mode; firms; international; journal; mode; risk cache: ijefi-4775.pdf plain text: ijefi-4775.txt item: #158 of 246 id: ijefi-4777 author: Setiawan, Sigit title: Middle Income Trap and Infrastructure issues In Indonesia: A Strategic Perspective date: 2017-07-27 words: 5722 flesch: 43 summary: N F R A S T R U C T U R E DEVELOPMENT A particular attention on infrastructure development was first iniated in Soesilo Bambang Yudhoyono second-term administration (2009-2014) and it has been continuing up to date in Joko Widodo administration (2014-2019). GoI encourages local government participation in infrastructure development by sharing budget allocation and authorities with local government. keywords: countries; country; development; financing; goi; government; growth; income; indonesia; infrastructure; international; issues; projects; sector cache: ijefi-4777.pdf plain text: ijefi-4777.txt item: #159 of 246 id: ijefi-4792 author: Muizzuddin, Muizzuddin; Taufik, Taufik; Ghasarma, Reza; Putri, Leonita; Adam, Mohamad title: Financial Literacy; Strategies and Concepts in Understanding the Financial Planning With Self-EfficacyTheory and Goal SettingTheory of Motivation Approach date: 2017-07-27 words: 5280 flesch: 36 summary: The discussion begins with the concept of behavioral finance that discusses links between financial concepts to the behavior, and then proceed with the concept and measurement of financial literacy of individuals altogether with some approaches and factors that may affect it. Self-efficacy theory and goal setting theory of motivation is proposed to be a predictive factor of the level of financial literacy with relevant constructs, there are two propositions proposed to predict the level of financial literacy: (1) Self-efficacy theory, in this case the motivational construct (manage finances, use credit cards less, and control debt), and (2) goal setting theory of motivation, in this case the goal commitment and goal specificity construct (financial planning). keywords: efficacy; financial; goal; individual; literacy; planning; self; setting; theory cache: ijefi-4792.pdf plain text: ijefi-4792.txt item: #160 of 246 id: ijefi-4895 author: Bokhari, Abla A.H. title: Human Capital Investment and Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia: Error Correction Model date: 2017-07-27 words: 7662 flesch: 51 summary: Even though the impact of human capital on economic growth is the targeted subject; whereas, physical capital, and economic growth relationship are also noteworthy. *Email: abokhari@kau.edu.sa ABSTRACT To examine the relationship between investment in human capital and economic growth in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the period 1970-2014. keywords: capital; causality; economic; education; expenditure; growth; health; investment; relationship; run; t t cache: ijefi-4895.pdf plain text: ijefi-4895.txt item: #161 of 246 id: ijefi-4913 author: Shahriarpour, Moujan; Tabriz, Akbar Alam title: The Importance of Green Supply Chain Management and Its Role in Marketing Management date: 2017-06-29 words: 3520 flesch: 44 summary: Different definitions of supply chain have been presented, that some of them are listed below: Supply chain is a network of organizations that related to those upstream to downstream are involved in the processes and activities and they produce value to the final customer in the goods and provided services (Christopher, 1998; Lysons, 2000). The main objectives of supply chain management include emphasis on effectively satisfying the customer demands, profitability of supply chain and also secondary objectives of supply chain management include creating the ability of developing new products, maximizing supply chain flexibility in responding to changes that arise at customer requirements. keywords: activities; chain; customers; distribution; management; production; products; supply cache: ijefi-4913.pdf plain text: ijefi-4913.txt item: #162 of 246 id: ijefi-5 author: Hamdi, Helmi title: Can E-Payment Systems Revolutionize Finance of the Less Developed Countries? The Case of Mobile Payment Technology date: 2011-05-27 words: 4513 flesch: 52 summary: The case of mobile payment technology 47 devices (Cell phone, PDA etc) that are connected to payment access using mobile service provider network. In this paper; we will focus only on mobile payments technology for three reasons: first, because despite the strong interest worldwide in e-money, the technology is still at an early stage of development and many experiences were failing3 (Hamdi 2007, 2009). keywords: countries; development; finance; mobile; money; payment; phones; services; technology; world cache: ijefi-5.pdf plain text: ijefi-5.txt item: #163 of 246 id: ijefi-5138 author: Obeid, Rami; Adeinat, Mohammad title: Determinants of Net Interest Margin: An Analytical Study on the Commercial Banks Operating in Jordan (2005-2015) date: 2017-08-18 words: 9738 flesch: 55 summary: 5. INTEREST RATE CONCEPT The classical economists looked at interest rate as an incentive for individuals and institutions to save. The classical theory of interest rate is known as the saving and investment theory and time preference theory. keywords: banks; deposits; effect; factors; interest margin; interest rates; jordan; loans; nim; operating; study; variables cache: ijefi-5138.pdf plain text: ijefi-5138.txt item: #164 of 246 id: ijefi-5144 author: Bouras, David; Frank, Troy; Burgess, Eric title: Functional Forms and Oligopolistic Models: An Empirical Analysis date: 2017-09-02 words: 3255 flesch: 56 summary: To compute the ALI, we use our previous estimates for the elasticities of demand for fresh whole dressed catfish, η, for the log-linear and linear demand functions; the price of live catfish; the price of fresh whole dressed catfish; and an estimate for marginal processing cost (mpc). On the cost side, we decompose marginal cost into two major components: Marginal processing cost and the cost of live catfish. keywords: catfish; cost; demand; forms; linear; processing cache: ijefi-5144.pdf plain text: ijefi-5144.txt item: #165 of 246 id: ijefi-5149 author: Durani, Farah title: The Relationship between Elastic Money Growth and Prices in Countries with the Largest Money Stock: An Econometric Review date: 2017-07-31 words: 5903 flesch: 61 summary: Johansen’s Cointegration test indicates that a long term equilibrium relationship is seen between money supply and inflation rates and money supply and asset prices in all the four countries except India where money supply is not significantly cointegrated with the asset prices. The empirical analysis of the relationship between money supply and prices, and money supply and asset prices has received much attention in the past few decades. keywords: causality; cpi; granger; index; money; money supply; prices; test; values cache: ijefi-5149.pdf plain text: ijefi-5149.txt item: #166 of 246 id: ijefi-5157 author: Samad, Abdus; Chowdhury, Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous title: Islamic Banks' Return on Depositors and Conventional Banks' Deposit Interest: Is there Causality? Evidence of Causality from Bangladesh. date: 2017-10-31 words: 7026 flesch: 54 summary: Cevik and Charap (2011) examine the empirical behavior of conventional bank deposit rates and the rate of return of Islamic banks in Malaysia and Turkey and found that there was a long run co-integration between the series. Samad (2013) investigated whether the global financial crisis (GFC) has had its impact on the efficiency of Islamic banks estimated by using the time varying Stochastic Frontier function on the Islamic banks of 16 countries. Table 1: Descriptive statistics of conventional bank deposit interest (CONBKX-6M) and Islamic bank rate of return to depositors (ISBKY-6M) Variable CONBKDEPOSTI ISBKDEPOSIR Mean 8.283279 8.374750 Median 7.655000 8.840000 Maximum 395.0000 12.76000 Minimum 0.070000 0.080000 Standard deviation 20.24634 keywords: banks; causality; contract; deposit interest; deposits; interest; interest rate; investment; islamic; islamic banks; rate; return; test cache: ijefi-5157.pdf plain text: ijefi-5157.txt item: #167 of 246 id: ijefi-5408 author: Siami-Namini, Sima title: China's Economy and the Global Financial Crisis date: 2017-10-31 words: 5577 flesch: 58 summary: Review of International Economics, 21(1), 85-102. Ho, K.Y., Wang, K., Wang, W. (2015), Foreign trade and economic growth in recent China: A granger causality analysis. De la Cruz Gallegos, J.L. (2012), The effects of China performance on world economic growth, an empirical approach. keywords: china; crisis; economic; economy; germany; germany output; growth; international; model; output; variables cache: ijefi-5408.pdf plain text: ijefi-5408.txt item: #168 of 246 id: ijefi-5516 author: Jahfer, Athambawa; Inoue, Tohru title: Solving Stock Price-Gross Domestic Product Puzzle: Evidence from Sri Lanka date: 2017-10-31 words: 6994 flesch: 58 summary: In the case of Japan, the study shows that money supply is positively related to stock market. Demirguc-Kunt, A., Levine, R. (1996a), Stock markets, corporate finance, and economic growth: An overview. keywords: economic; exchange; gdp; journal; lanka; market; price; rate; sri; stock; stock market; stock price; variables cache: ijefi-5516.pdf plain text: ijefi-5516.txt item: #169 of 246 id: ijefi-59 author: Georgantopoulos, Andreas; Tsamis, Anastasios title: Investigating Seasonal Patterns in Developing Countries: The Case of FYROM Stock Market date: 2011-10-15 words: 4882 flesch: 60 summary: Jaffe, J., Westerfield, R. (1989), ‘Is there a monthly effect in stock market returns?’. This paper uses a data set from FYROM Stock Exchange to investigate the presence of calendar effects in this recently organised equity market during the period 2002–2008. keywords: calendar; day; effect; index; market; mean; month; month effect; returns; stock cache: ijefi-59.pdf plain text: ijefi-59.txt item: #170 of 246 id: ijefi-5925 author: Hosseinzadeh, Amir; Davari, Behzad title: The Impact of Enterprise Management Systems on Management Accounting in Private Companies of Iran date: 2018-01-26 words: 4732 flesch: 45 summary: It includes a set of the developed hypotheses to evaluate how ERP training and seller support affect applying ERP systems and decision-making in five management accounting activities. The results show that ERP system improves quality of management accounting process, like seller support, training affects application of ERP system, but they have little impact on decision-making. keywords: accounting; budgeting; erp; management; performance; seller; support; system; training cache: ijefi-5925.pdf plain text: ijefi-5925.txt item: #171 of 246 id: ijefi-5933 author: Malangeni, Luxolo; Phiri, Andrew title: Education and Economic Growth in Post-apartheid South Africa: An Autoregressive Distributive Lag Approach date: 2018-03-16 words: 5597 flesch: 49 summary: *Email: phiricandrew@gmail.com ABSTRACT Using annual data collected between 1994 and 2014, this current study investigate the long-run and short-run cointegration relations between education and economic growth in South Africa using the bounds approach to autoregressive distributive lag model. Our empirical results obtained in the study point to an insignificant relationship between education and economic growth in South Africa, a finding which goes contrary to both existing theoretical and empirical postulations. keywords: africa; economic; education; growth; journal; relationship; run; south; test cache: ijefi-5933.pdf plain text: ijefi-5933.txt item: #172 of 246 id: ijefi-594 author: Drissi, Ramzi; Ghazouani, Tarek; Ghazouani, Assaad title: Financial Decision of Tunisian Firms in the Context of Market Timing Theory date: 2013-10-03 words: 5050 flesch: 57 summary: De Bie, T., De Haan, L. (2004), Does market timing drive capital structures? Results obtained by these authors will be discussed in three parts: the relevance of theory Market timing, persistence over time, and finally, through that affect proxies. keywords: capital; debt; firms; journal; market; ratio; structure; theory; timing cache: ijefi-594.pdf plain text: ijefi-594.txt item: #173 of 246 id: ijefi-5960 author: Kazar, Gorkemli; Kazar, Altug; Sert, Tamer Sami title: Bilateral Trade in European Sports Industry: Linder Versus Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson date: 2018-01-26 words: 5216 flesch: 57 summary: The limited literature about sporting goods trade is remained incapable of explaining the significance of the economic performances of the trading nations and the geographical gravity forces in action. Vienna, Brussels: Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies and European Commission, DG Enterprise. Harvey, J., Saint-Germain, M. (2001), Sporting goods trade, international division of labor,and the unequal hierarchy of nations. keywords: countries; country; economic; european; goods; gravity; industry; international; journal; linder; model; sporting; sports; trade cache: ijefi-5960.pdf plain text: ijefi-5960.txt item: #174 of 246 id: ijefi-5971 author: Hapsoro, Dody; Santoso, Tiara Rani title: Does Audit Quality Mediate the Effect of Auditor Tenure, Abnormal Audit Fee and Auditor's Reputation on Giving Going Concern Opinion? date: 2018-01-27 words: 8001 flesch: 51 summary: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effect of the length of the audit firm-client relationship, abnormal audit fees (ABFE) and auditor reputation on giving of going concern opinion mediated by audit quality. The result of the indirect effect test shows that auditor tenure and auditor reputation have a positive effect on audit quality while ABFE has a negative effect to audit quality and audit quality has a negative effect on giving of going concern opinion. keywords: audit; audit quality; auditor; company; concern; concern opinion; effect; financial; giving; going; journal; kap; opinion; quality; reputation cache: ijefi-5971.pdf plain text: ijefi-5971.txt item: #175 of 246 id: ijefi-5974 author: Al-Awadhi, Abdullah M.; Bash, Ahmad; Al-Mutairi, Ahmad F.; Al-Awadhi, Ahmad M. title: Returns of Islamic Stocks in Saudi Arabia: Segmentation and Risk-Aversion date: 2018-03-16 words: 3636 flesch: 54 summary: Returns of Islamic Stocks in Saudi Arabia: Segmentation and Risk - Aversion International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 8 • Issue 2 • 2018 239 offset by the higher risk-aversion of Islamic religious retail traders who trade only Islamic stocks and require higher returns, leading to higher returns for Islamic stocks. Returns of Islamic Stocks in Saudi Arabia: Segmentation and Risk - Aversion International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 8 • Issue 2 • 2018 241 frequently than are Islamic stocks. keywords: islamic; journal; market; panel; returns; saudi; stocks cache: ijefi-5974.pdf plain text: ijefi-5974.txt item: #176 of 246 id: ijefi-598 author: Vintila, Georgeta; Gherghina, Stefan Cristian title: Board of Directors Independence and Firm Value: Empirical Evidence Based on the Bucharest Stock Exchange Listed Companies date: 2013-09-26 words: 9674 flesch: 56 summary: The independence of non-executive directors shall be evaluated based on the following criteria: a non-executive director is not an executive director of the company or of an entity controlled by it and has not been in such a position for the previous five years; he is not an employee of the company or of an entity controlled by it and has not been in such a position for the previous five years; he does not receive and has not received significant additional remuneration from the company or of an entity controlled by it, apart from a fee received as non-executive director; he is not and does not Board of Directors Independence and Firm Value: Empirical Evidence Based on the Bucharest Stock Exchange Listed Companies 887 represent in any way a significant shareholder of the company; he does not have and has not had within the last financial year a significant business relationship with the company or of an entity controlled by it, either directly or as a partner, shareholder, director, or employee of a body having such a relationship; he is not and has not been within the last three years a partner or an employee of the present or former external auditor of the company or of an entity controlled by it; is not an executive director in another company in which an executive director of the company is a non- executive director; he has not served on the board as a non-executive director for more than three terms; he is not a close family member of an executive director or of persons in the situations above mentioned. Keywords: independent directors; non-executive directors; firm value; panel data regression models; Granger causality; vector autoregression JEL Classifications: G32; G34 1. keywords: board; ceo; companies; directors; economics; executive; firm; independence; journal; non; percentage; relationship; stock; table; value cache: ijefi-598.pdf plain text: ijefi-598.txt item: #177 of 246 id: ijefi-5980 author: Shubita, Rawan F.; Warrad, Taleb Awad title: The Effects of International Trade Openness on Government Revenue: Empirical Evidence from Middle East and North African Region Countries date: 2018-01-27 words: 6079 flesch: 45 summary: The outcomes of recent studies support the positive effect argument of international trade openness on government revenue in general, and tax revenue in particluar. International trade openness The study used international trade openness as a traditional measure for trade liberalization by considering the summation Table 3: Panel unit root test: keywords: government; individual; international; openness; revenue; square; stationary; study; tax; trade cache: ijefi-5980.pdf plain text: ijefi-5980.txt item: #178 of 246 id: ijefi-6 author: Abdelaziz, Hakimi; Mouldi, Djelassi; Helmi, Hamdi title: Financial Liberalization and Banking Profitability: A Panel Data Analysis for Tunisian Banks date: 2011-05-23 words: 8719 flesch: 42 summary: On the basis of data relating to 9 Tunisian banks over the period 1980-2009, and by adopting the panal data analysis, the aim of this paper is to check the effect of financial liberalization on the Tunisian banking profitability. Introduction Following the recommendations of the authors of financial repression school, several countries undertook programs of financial liberalization. keywords: banking profitability; banks; countries; credit; crises; economic; effect; interest; liberalization; rates; risk; tunisian; variable cache: ijefi-6.pdf plain text: ijefi-6.txt item: #179 of 246 id: ijefi-6001 author: Nwude, E. Chuke; Okeke, Chinedu title: Impact of Credit Risk Management on the Performance of Selected Nigerian Banks date: 2018-03-16 words: 9358 flesch: 50 summary: They detailed bank risks to include interest risk, market risk, credit risk, off-balance risk, technology and operational risk, foreign exchange risk, country risk, liquidity risk, and insolvency risk. *Email: chuke.nwude@unn.edu.ng ABSTRACT This study investigated the impact of credit risk management on the performance of deposit money banks in Nigeria using five banks that had highest asset base. keywords: banks; credit risk; deposit; impact; journal; loans; money; money banks; nigeria; performance; profitability; return; risk; risk management; roe; study; total cache: ijefi-6001.pdf plain text: ijefi-6001.txt item: #180 of 246 id: ijefi-6003 author: Mdanat, Metri F.; Warrad, Taleb A.; Salhieh, Loay M.; Arabiyat, Talah S. title: A Gravity Approach to Determinants of Export in a Small Open Economy: ‎Evidence from Jordan date: 2018-03-16 words: 5274 flesch: 49 summary: 2. LITERATURE REVIEW Some small open economies that have tried to stimulate and enhance export performance to contribute to their future economic growth have achieved the goal of strong export growth, while others have not and are still far from improving export performance. This study has uses a gravity model of small open economy exports to investigate the factors determining exports to trading partners. keywords: countries; determinants; economic; exports; gravity; growth; international; jordan; model; performance; trade cache: ijefi-6003.pdf plain text: ijefi-6003.txt item: #181 of 246 id: ijefi-602 author: Tlidi, Abdelmonaim title: The Calculation of Structural Budget Balance : Case of Morocco date: 2013-10-05 words: 2726 flesch: 55 summary: Estimation of potential production in Morocco To estimate the potential production in Morocco, we use the Hodrick-Prescott technique. The application of the Hodrick-Prescott technique for λ=100(7) value we permit to calculate potential production where its evolution is shown in figure 1(a). keywords: balance; budget; expenditure; gdp; method; production; public cache: ijefi-602.pdf plain text: ijefi-602.txt item: #182 of 246 id: ijefi-6023 author: Darwazeh, Riyad Neman; Dabaghia, Mohammad title: Privatization Effect on Shareholder Value in the Jordanian State Owned Enterprises date: 2018-03-16 words: 7646 flesch: 50 summary: Darwazeh and Dabaghia: Privatization Effect on Shareholder Value in the Jordanian State Owned Enterprises International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 8 • Issue 2 • 2018 73 Mauboussin (2011) argued that there was a big misunderstanding according to the shareholder value definition, because the majority believe that shareholder value is created when the short-term for the share price is maximised. 208 Figure 1: Shareholder value before and after privatization Darwazeh and Dabaghia: Privatization Effect on Shareholder Value in the Jordanian State Owned Enterprises International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 8 • Issue 2 • 201876 shareholder value is the measurement tool. keywords: companies; economic; financial; international; jordanian; journal; management; performance; privatization; public; shareholder; shareholder value; state; study; value cache: ijefi-6023.pdf plain text: ijefi-6023.txt item: #183 of 246 id: ijefi-605 author: Sarac, Taha Bahadır; Ucan, Okyay title: The Interest Rate Channel in Turkey: An Investigation with Kalman Filter Approach date: 2013-09-24 words: 4582 flesch: 61 summary: An Investigation with Kalman Filter Approach 875 by dividing into two channels so called interest rate and bank credit channels. Following by an expansionary monetary policy, interest rate falls and this causes a rise in investment and GDP at the interest rate channel. keywords: analysis; channel; inflation; interest; monetary; policy; rate; regime; t t; turkey cache: ijefi-605.pdf plain text: ijefi-605.txt item: #184 of 246 id: ijefi-606 author: Nazarian, Rafik; Naderi, Esmaeil; Gandali Alikhani, Nadiya; Amiri, Ashkan title: Long Memory Analysis: An Empirical Investigation date: 2013-11-29 words: 6305 flesch: 56 summary: An introduction to long memory time series models and fractional differencing. Furthermore, based on the Akaike information criterion, a comparison was made between different models of ARFIMA and the model that is found to have the lowest score of the information criterion, will be the best model for explaining mean equation of the stock return series. keywords: existence; feature; heteroskedasticity; journal; markets; memory; models; results; return; series; stationary; stock; table; time cache: ijefi-606.pdf plain text: ijefi-606.txt item: #185 of 246 id: ijefi-610 author: Ela, Mehmet title: An Assessment on the Relationship Between Informal Economy and Educational Level in Turkey date: 2013-10-03 words: 8221 flesch: 48 summary: It is a very difficult task to measure its size and dimensions, however economists have developed reliable methods to predict the size and impact of informal economy in a given country or economic region. Studies in Turkey and abroad indicate that informal economy in this country is considerably large and sprawling. keywords: activities; countries; economy; education; education level; employment; factors; growth; income; increase; labor; level; people; population; reasons; social; tax; turkey cache: ijefi-610.pdf plain text: ijefi-610.txt item: #186 of 246 id: ijefi-611 author: Emna, Rouetbi; Chokri, Mamoghli title: Measuring Liquidity Risk in an Emerging Market: Liquidity Adjusted Value at Risk Approach for High Frequency Data date: 2013-11-16 words: 8808 flesch: 58 summary: This leads to a growing literature interested mainly in either establishing liquidity adjusted pricing model (Pastor and Stambaugh (2003), Archarya and Pedersen (2005), Sadka (2006), Davivongs and Pavabutr (2012)) or incorporating liquidity risk in a well-known risk management tool namely; the value at risk (Bangia et al. (1999), Le Saout (2002), Al Janabi (2008), Aktas et al. (2012). The most important question raised by several microstructure studies is how to estimate the two components of liquidity risk, namely; the endogenous and the exogenous ones. keywords: cost; data; liquidity; liquidity risk; market; model; returns; risk; spread; stocks; time; trading; value cache: ijefi-611.pdf plain text: ijefi-611.txt item: #187 of 246 id: ijefi-6114 author: Mushori, Sabastine; Chikobvu, Delson title: Investment Opportunities, Uncertain Implicit Transaction Costs and Maximum Downside Risk in Dynamic Stochastic Financial Optimization date: 2018-07-11 words: 7436 flesch: 58 summary: Portfolio Risk The study assumes that the investor intends to choose a portfolio with minimum of the maximum downside deviations of asset returns relative to expected portfolio return. The study considers uncertainty in asset returns, portfolio risk and implicit trading costs incurred during initial trading and in subsequent rebalancing of the portfolio. keywords: = =; costs; ist ist; portfolio; s ist; s p; s s; transaction; τ = cache: ijefi-6114.pdf plain text: ijefi-6114.txt item: #188 of 246 id: ijefi-618 author: Anoruo, Emmanuel; Murthy, Vasudeva N.R. title: Testing Nonlinear Inflation Convergence for the Central African Economic and Monetary Community date: 2013-11-28 words: 4067 flesch: 51 summary: Keywords: inflation convergence; STAR; nonlinear unit root tests; inflation differential; CEMAC JEL Classifications: C22; E31; F15; F36 1. In the literature, recently there have been some empirical attempts to employ nonlinear unit root tests, especially in the case of developed countries. keywords: convergence; countries; inflation; nonlinear; results; root; test; unit cache: ijefi-618.pdf plain text: ijefi-618.txt item: #189 of 246 id: ijefi-6193 author: Albashir, Walid Ali; Zainuddin, Yuserrie; Panigrahi, Shrikant Krupasindhu title: The Acceptance of Islamic Banking Products in Libya: A Theory of Planned Behavior Approach date: 2018-05-06 words: 5790 flesch: 45 summary: The Acceptance of Islamic Banking Products in Libya: A Theory of Planned Behavior Approach Walid Ali Albashir1, Yuserrie Zainuddin2, Shrikant Krupasindhu Panigrahi3* 1Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Kuantan, Malaysia, 2Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Kuantan, Malaysia, 3Faculty of Industrial Management, University Malaysia Pahang, Gambang, Kuantan, Malaysia.*Email: pshrikant@ump.edu.my ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to identify key factors affecting acceptance level of Islamic banking customers in Libya. In order to understand the reason for Islamic banking adoption it is important to understand individual’s behavioral attitude that influence their purchase intention (George, 2004). keywords: banking; behavior; control; customers; intention; international; islamic; journal; model; products; research; risk cache: ijefi-6193.pdf plain text: ijefi-6193.txt item: #190 of 246 id: ijefi-620 author: Ocal, Oguz title: Purchasing Power Parity in the Case of Romania; Evidence from Structural Breaks date: 2013-10-21 words: 1869 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords: Purchasing power parity; real exchange rates; structural breaks JEL Classifications: F30; F31 1. Introduction Purchasing power parity (PPP here after) is a vital structure block of numerous macroeconomic models so that the PPP hypothesis is important for policy implications to decision- or policy makers of central banks, multinational firms and exchange rate market participants. Data, Methodology and Empirical Results Previous literature of PPP stand on the linear unit root tests, but recent studies account for nonlinearities and/or structural breaks in real exchange rates. keywords: exchange; parity; power; ppp; purchasing cache: ijefi-620.pdf plain text: ijefi-620.txt item: #191 of 246 id: ijefi-625 author: Corbet, Shaen title: The Contagion Effects of Sovereign Downgrades: Evidence from the European Financial Crisis date: 2013-11-28 words: 5971 flesch: 64 summary: 5. Conclusions This paper investigates the contagion effects of sovereign rating agency announcements across the main European financial markets using daily data on the investigated countries’ domestic equity indices, five year senior credit default swaps (CDS) and ten year sovereign government-issued bonds during the period 2005-2012. This enables the capture of the dynamics spillover effects of rating agency announcements on these specific financial markets by controlling for the lagged effects of fluctuations in these asset classes. keywords: announcements; cds; downgrade; effects; european; greece; ireland; markets; negative; rating cache: ijefi-625.pdf plain text: ijefi-625.txt item: #192 of 246 id: ijefi-628 author: Ahmad, Nisar title: State Dependence in Unemployment date: 2013-12-02 words: 7719 flesch: 48 summary: Keywords: Immigrants; unemployment; state dependence; unobserved heterogeneity; dynamic random effects models. The effectiveness of public policy directed towards the unemployment problem might depend on the extent of state dependence in unemployment. keywords: dependence; effects; heckman; heterogeneity; immigrants; income; individual; model; period; probability; state; state dependence; unemployment cache: ijefi-628.pdf plain text: ijefi-628.txt item: #193 of 246 id: ijefi-6283 author: Ria, Ria; Nuryatno, Muhammad title: Influence of Audit Quality, Pattern of Loans Concentration and Company Size to Banking Loans (Agency Problem of Creditor – Debtor at Manufacture Company in Indonesia) date: 2018-07-04 words: 3668 flesch: 52 summary: This study aims to analyze the influence of audit quality, loan concentration pattern, and company size to large of loans. This study shows that there is a positive and significant correlation between audit qualities to the loans, there is a negative and significant correlation between loan concentration patterns to the loans, there is a positive and significant correlation between company sizes on the loans and ROA, current ratio and age of the company can be a control variable to the loans Keywords: Audit Quality, Loan Concentration Pattern, Company Size, Loans JEL Classifications: M4, M41, M42 1. keywords: audit; company; concentration; loans; pattern; quality; size; variable cache: ijefi-6283.pdf plain text: ijefi-6283.txt item: #194 of 246 id: ijefi-629 author: KILIC, Cuneyt; BAYAR, YILMAZ; ARICA, Feyza title: Effects of Currency Unions on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: The European Economic and Monetary Union Case date: 2013-11-28 words: 4536 flesch: 54 summary: We examined the relationship between real FDI inflows and real GDP, real GDP growth rate, inflation volatility, exchange rate volatility, distance, exchange rates of 16 G20 countries in terms of euro with a panel data analysis. A description of the variables used in this study and their data sources follows: The dependent variable, RFDI, is real FDI inflows to the Eurozone. keywords: countries; economic; emu; european; exchange; fdi; gdp; inflows; investment; rate; volatility cache: ijefi-629.pdf plain text: ijefi-629.txt item: #195 of 246 id: ijefi-633 author: Adom, Philip Kofi; Amakye, Kwaku; Doh, Edinam; Anku, Regina title: SMEs Record Keeping in Ghana: Has VAT Made It Better? date: 2013-12-10 words: 9698 flesch: 60 summary: Thus, the more firms receive education from VAT officials the more they are, in a better position, to complete the VAT returns form by self thereby avoiding extra cost imposed by VAT record keeping. No do you fill the vat invoice yourself yes 2 1 3 Total 2 1 3 4.3.1 Frequency of visit by VAT officials and the keeping of VAT records by traders Next the authors test to see if a relationship exist between the frequency of VAT education by VAT officials and the completion of the VAT record books by self. keywords: business; cost; education; firms; record keeping; skills; system; table; tax; value; vat; vat education; vat officials; vat record cache: ijefi-633.pdf plain text: ijefi-633.txt item: #196 of 246 id: ijefi-637 author: Pan, Zhiyuan; Sun, Xianchao title: Hedging Strategy Using Copula and Nonparametric Methods: Evidence from China Securities Index Futures date: 2013-12-03 words: 5706 flesch: 59 summary: Various types of GARCH models to fit the marginal distribution are also compared. Table 2 and Table 3 present the estimation of types of GARCH models (AR(1)- GARCH (1,1), AR(1)-NARCH(1,1), AR(1)-GJR(1,1), AR(1)-EGARCH(1,1), AR(1)-AGARCH(1,1), AR(1)-VGARCH (1,1)) for CSI 300 index futures data and CSI 300, respectively. keywords: copula; csi; futures; garch; hedge; index; nonparametric cache: ijefi-637.pdf plain text: ijefi-637.txt item: #197 of 246 id: ijefi-644 author: Odeleye, Anthonia Taye title: Pre-Consolidation and Post-Consolidation of Nigerian Banking Sector: A Dynamic Comparison date: 2013-11-16 words: 4660 flesch: 37 summary: When the data was analyzed with the chi-square test and ANOVA, it was found that bank consolidation affected the industry significantly as most of the banks had to go to the capital market to raise the required amount by issuing securities. With emphasis on earnings per share as a proxy for consolidation, it is inferred that bank consolidation does impact banks’ efficiency positively. keywords: banking; banks; capital; consolidation; efficiency; market; nigeria; post; sector; test cache: ijefi-644.pdf plain text: ijefi-644.txt item: #198 of 246 id: ijefi-651 author: AHMAD, Hafiz Imtiaz; ALPHONSE, Pascal; LEVASSEUR, Michel title: Stock Prices and Implied Abnormal Earnings Growth date: 2013-12-02 words: 13268 flesch: 62 summary: Three basic variables were measured: the variation of sales over 2 years in %, variation of book value of equity in excess of net income in%, and the ratio of investment over 2 years compared to past depreciation during these past years (measured by the items WS.Sales, WS.TotalCommonEquity, WS.NetIncome, and WS.CapitalExpendituresCFStmt WS.DepreciationDeplAmortExpense of Worldscope database from Thomson Reuters). These mean values were divided by the ratio of expected EPS divided by total assets per share to obtain a measure of earnings in %. keywords: accounting; companies; countries; earnings; earnings growth; financial; market; model; share; usa; value; variable; year cache: ijefi-651.pdf plain text: ijefi-651.txt item: #199 of 246 id: ijefi-656 author: None title: 508 Resource Limit Is Reached date: None words: 27 flesch: 64 summary: 508 Resource Limit Is Reached Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later. keywords: limit cache: ijefi-656.htm plain text: ijefi-656.txt item: #200 of 246 id: ijefi-6565 author: KILIÇARSLAN, Zerrin title: The Relationship between Exchange Rate Volatility and Foreign Direct Investment in Turkey: Toda and Yamamoto Causality Analysis date: 2018-07-04 words: 5224 flesch: 54 summary: In this study, the relationship between exchange rate volatility and FDI in Turkey for the period 2005Q4-2018Q1 was analyzed using Toda-Yamamoto causality test. Exchange rate volatility refers to all movements and changes that are effective for the depreciation/valuation of a currency (Martins, 2015. keywords: causality; countries; effect; exchange; exchange rate; fdi; investment; journal; rate; rate volatility; test; volatility cache: ijefi-6565.pdf plain text: ijefi-6565.txt item: #201 of 246 id: ijefi-6574 author: Al-Shammari, Nayef; Al-Obaid, Shaha title: Linkages of Global Financial Crisis and Trade Direction in an Oil Based Economy date: 2018-05-08 words: 8069 flesch: 56 summary: (2003) show that if custom unions do not affect trade with non-member countries, global free could be achieved immediately if free trade were introduced together with international side payments equal to the terms of trade effects. The expected negative influence of the global financial crisis is statistically significant in the case of Kuwait trade flows with China. keywords: crisis; economic; economy; effects; exports; gravity; journal; kuwait; model; oil; partners; study; trade; trading cache: ijefi-6574.pdf plain text: ijefi-6574.txt item: #202 of 246 id: ijefi-6585 author: Hong, Cheng-Yih; Hsu, Chen-Jung; Li, Jian-Fa title: The Economic Effects of the Tax Reform: Dynamic Input-output Model Approach date: 2018-07-04 words: 5697 flesch: 52 summary: Finally, through the tax revenue model, transfer expenditure is estimated to yield an additional NT$ 5.4711 billion from business tax, personal income tax, and corporate income tax as a “fiscal dividend.” The present study investigates business tax, personal income tax, and corporate income tax. keywords: business; financial; growth; impact; income; journal; model; national; reform; revenue; spillover; tax cache: ijefi-6585.pdf plain text: ijefi-6585.txt item: #203 of 246 id: ijefi-66 author: Doğan, Taylan Taner title: Macroeconomic Variables and Unemployment: The Case of Turkey date: 2011-12-08 words: 4826 flesch: 57 summary: The list variables used in this study after seasonal adjustment are unemployment rate, real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth (real GDP is seasonally adjusted real GDP divided by seasonally adjusted GDP deflator so that real GDP growth is LN (real GDPt/real GDPt-1) Unemployment rate between 2002 and 2008 differs from earlier and later periods. keywords: export; growth; inflation; interest; rate; series; test; unemployment; variables cache: ijefi-66.pdf plain text: ijefi-66.txt item: #204 of 246 id: ijefi-6623 author: Al-raeai, Arafat Mansoor; Zainol, Zairy; Abdul Rahim, Ahmad Khilmy bin title: The Role of Macroeconomic factors on Sukuk Market Development of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries date: 2018-05-21 words: 5551 flesch: 48 summary: On the contrary, the growing importance of Sukuk markets around the world has recently opened a new avenue of research into the challenges and factors which the development of Sukuk market are facing. The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual model/framework for investigating the role of macroeconomic factors on Sukuk market development (SMD) in gulf cooperation council (GCC). keywords: bond; countries; development; gcc; macroeconomic; market; market development; oil; smd; sukuk; sukuk market cache: ijefi-6623.pdf plain text: ijefi-6623.txt item: #205 of 246 id: ijefi-6629 author: Adetunji, Adedokun Lateef; Nwude, E. Chuke; Udeh, Sergius N. title: Interface of Insurance and Economic Growth: Nigerian Experience date: 2018-07-04 words: 9266 flesch: 42 summary: Richard, E.O., Victor, O. (2013), analysis of insurance growth in Nigeria: Using co-integration test and error correction model. Krishna, C.T. (2008), Do insurance sector growth and reforms affect economic development? keywords: countries; data; development; economy; gdp; growth; industry; insurance; international; journal; life; nigeria; period; relationship; series; study; test; time; variables cache: ijefi-6629.pdf plain text: ijefi-6629.txt item: #206 of 246 id: ijefi-67 author: Anthony, Orji title: Bank Savings and Bank Credits in Nigeria: Determinants and Impact on Economic Growth date: 2012-07-05 words: 9922 flesch: 51 summary: This study investigated the determinants of bank savings in Nigeria as well as examined the impact of bank savings and bank credits on Nigeria’s economic growth from 1970- 2006. The research questions arising from the above issues and the objectives we seek to pursue are therefore as follows: (a) What are the determinants of bank savings in Nigeria? keywords: bank; credits; development; economy; growth; impact; income; increase; interest; model; nigeria; rate; result; savings; sector; total; variables cache: ijefi-67.pdf plain text: ijefi-67.txt item: #207 of 246 id: ijefi-6729 author: Alhifni, Anas; Huda, Nurul; Anshori, Muslich; Ahwarumi, Biyati title: Product Design Mall of Islamic Microfinance Institutions Supporting Economic Empowerment Islamic Boarding School Indonesia (Case Study Islamic Boarding School Abdussalam) date: 2018-07-11 words: 4803 flesch: 47 summary: The results of this study can be applied by other Islamic Boarding School who have sharia micro finance institutions and has the same criteria with Islamic Boarding School Abdussalam. *Email: anas.alhifni@unida.ac.id ABSTRACT Islamic Boarding School in Indonesia currently has many economic sectors including Islamic microfinance services such as Baitul Mal Wat Tamwil (BMT) one of Islamic Boarding School Abdussalam. keywords: abdussalam; barokah; bmt; boarding; boarding school; empowerment; funds; islamic; product; school; waqf cache: ijefi-6729.pdf plain text: ijefi-6729.txt item: #208 of 246 id: ijefi-6893 author: Zainuddin, Zainuddin; Sinaga, Bonar M.; Hartoyo, Sri; Erwidodo, Erwidodo title: Assessing Market Power, Impact of Import Tariff Reductions and Weakening Demand for Rubber Products (HS code 4011) in the Australian Market date: 2019-03-03 words: 10903 flesch: 52 summary: DOMidn idn idn j idnj j j j j j DOMidn idn The domestic rubber products industry is being driven by the growth of tire product exports with the code of HS 4011 (new pneumatic tires of rubber) to various countries. keywords: australia; countries; country; country j; demand; export; impact; import; j j; market; prices; q q; rubber products; tariff; tire; tire products; value cache: ijefi-6893.pdf plain text: ijefi-6893.txt item: #209 of 246 id: ijefi-6919 author: Hidayat, Muhammad; Darwin, Ranti; Hadi, M. Fikry title: Inequality of Interregional Development in Riau Indonesia; Panel Data Regression Approach date: 2018-09-04 words: 4515 flesch: 48 summary: Ideally, economic development will Hidayat, et al.: Inequality of Interregional Development in Riau Indonesia; Panel Data Regression Approach International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | Vol 8 • Issue 5 • 2018 185 result in high economic growth while increasing prosperity and reducing the level of development inequality. Research conducted by Bonet (2006) states that the effect of fiscal decentralization on development inequality. keywords: data; development; growth; index; inequality; panel; province; research; riau cache: ijefi-6919.pdf plain text: ijefi-6919.txt item: #210 of 246 id: ijefi-6924 author: Bahari, Doddy Ismunandar; Siregar, Hermanto; Sahara, Sahara; Rachman, Handewi Purwati Saliem title: Impact of Agricultural Sectors and Income Inequality in Rural Toward Role of Public Education in Decreasing Educational Inequality in Indonesia date: 2019-01-12 words: 7631 flesch: 44 summary: Reducing education inequality could be encouraged through the addition government spending on education, number of teachers in junior secondary education and lecturer in higher education, and number of school buildings in senior secondary school and college education. Although the role of public education is dominant to reduce education inequality but the role of demand side of public education also determines the rate of decline in education inequality. keywords: demand; economics; education; income; indonesia; inequality; level; number; role; school; sector; cache: ijefi-6924.pdf plain text: ijefi-6924.txt item: #211 of 246 id: ijefi-6934 author: Yunisvita, Yunisvita; Imelda, Imelda; Bachri, Fachrizal; Adnan, Nazeli; Yuliana, Saadah title: Probability Selection of Dormitory House For Students date: 2018-09-10 words: 4508 flesch: 50 summary: Using the Binomial Logistic Regression models of the 275 samples of student respondents of Unsri in Indralaya Campus, the probabilities to choose where to live in private boarding houses is significantly affected by the rental price, but the changes of the rental rates do not alter in the student probability to live in private boarding houses. Research by Muliana and Kustiwan (2011) concluded that the distribution pattern of location of residence students who live away from the family is concentrated closer to the campus area. keywords: boarding; campus; facilities; factors; house; idr; income; location; place; respondents; students cache: ijefi-6934.pdf plain text: ijefi-6934.txt item: #212 of 246 id: ijefi-71 author: Ray, Sarbapriya title: Productivity Growth in Some Energy Intensive Manufacturing Industries in India : An analytical Assessment date: 2011-12-02 words: 10491 flesch: 47 summary: All the observations, in turn, place the need for formulating industry specific policies for enhancing total factor productivity growth of energy intensive industries in India. The industrial sector consumes half of the total commercial energy available in India, 70% of which in energy intensive industries in India. keywords: energy; factor; growth; india; industries; industry; input; intensity; mtoe; output; period; productivity; rate; tfp; tfpg; total cache: ijefi-71.pdf plain text: ijefi-71.txt item: #213 of 246 id: ijefi-7135 author: Al Hanini, Eman Ahmad; Al Oqqaily, Samerra'a Z title: Does the Management Information System Causes Competitive Advantage for Banks working in Jordan? date: 2018-11-05 words: 4722 flesch: 43 summary: Mobaydeen, H. (2015), Strategic information systems and their impact on achieving competitive advantage in potash company in Jordan. *Email: Eman.hanini@bau.edu.jo Received: 16 August 2018 Accepted: 18 October 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.7135 ABSTRACT The current study aimed at identifying the role of Management Information System (MIS) in achieving competitive advantage for banks operating in Jordan. keywords: advantage; banks; hypothesis; information; jordan; mis; study cache: ijefi-7135.pdf plain text: ijefi-7135.txt item: #214 of 246 id: ijefi-7250 author: Algarini, Abdullah title: Wage-Profit Rate Schedules in Case of Saudi Arabia date: 2018-11-05 words: 4069 flesch: 60 summary: *Average annual rate of wage that we calculated it by using average of labor productivity (x), average of capital productivity (ϕ) in Table 1, and profit rate (ν) in this table Algarini: Wage-profit Rate Schedules in Case of Saudi Arabia International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues | It illustrates the tradeoff between real wage and profit rates. keywords: capital; change; labor; productivity; profit; rate; wage cache: ijefi-7250.pdf plain text: ijefi-7250.txt item: #215 of 246 id: ijefi-7274 author: Ninh, Nguyen Thi Hai; Lebailly, Philippe; Dung, Nguyen Mau title: Labor Division in Pig Farming Households: An Analysis of Gender and Economic Perspectives in the Red River Delta Vietnam date: 2019-01-18 words: 6891 flesch: 56 summary: Other variables responsible for the division of labor in pig farming household are age, educational level and perception on gender equality of spouse; number of family laborers who can involve in pig farming and pig production scale (Figure 1). Accordingly, pig farming households in the Red river delta diversify their income sources to obtain as much money as they can by assigning family labor into multiple work including pig farming, crop cultivation and off-farm activities. keywords: decision; division; farming; gender; households; husband; labor; making; pig; pig farming; scale; vietnam; wife cache: ijefi-7274.pdf plain text: ijefi-7274.txt item: #216 of 246 id: ijefi-7286 author: Kumaza, Alphonse; He, Yuanqiong title: Can Corporate Responsibility Improve Business Financial Performance? A Research Insight date: 2019-01-12 words: 7722 flesch: 31 summary: However, the change waves sweeping across corporate social responsibilities’ (CSR) REFERENCES Aguilera, R.V., Rupp, D.E., Williams, C.A., Ganapathi, J. 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The aim of this method is to evaluate portfolio performance considering risk. keywords: alpha; performance; premium; regression; reits; risk; value cache: ijefi-7326.pdf plain text: ijefi-7326.txt item: #218 of 246 id: ijefi-74 author: Barbu, Teodora Cristina; Boitan, Iustina title: Central Banks' Response to the Current Financial Crisis – Between Costs and Benefits date: 2011-12-02 words: 6000 flesch: 41 summary: When implementing quantitative easing measures, central banks focus mainly on increasing their liability side of the balance sheet, particularly the banks’ reserve accounts at central bank. The unconventional monetary policy measures, the dramatic fall of the key interest rate, the balance sheet structure modification and extension of collateral accepted by central banks are the main issues on which we focused our attention, to highlight the costs and benefits recorded by these institutions. keywords: banks; central; credit; ecb; euro; fed; liquidity; market; policy; securities cache: ijefi-74.pdf plain text: ijefi-74.txt item: #219 of 246 id: ijefi-7416 author: KILIÇ, Cüneyt; Ozcan, Burcu title: The Impact of Financial Development on Human Capital: Evidence From Emerging Market Economies date: 2018-12-12 words: 8170 flesch: 44 summary: Sehrawat and Giri (2014) examined the relationship between financial development and human development in India. For Malaysia, Uddin and Masih (2015) investigated how finance and growth affect human development and found that financial development promotes human development through the channel of economic growth. keywords: capital; causality; countries; development; economic; education; emes; evidence; growth; human; international; journal; model; panel; results; test cache: ijefi-7416.pdf plain text: ijefi-7416.txt item: #220 of 246 id: ijefi-8047 author: Safkaur, Otniel; Afiah, Nunuy Nur; Poulus, Sugiono; Dahlan, Muhammad title: The Effect of Quality Financial Reporting on Good Governance date: 2019-05-31 words: 8397 flesch: 38 summary: Hypothesis testing: The hypothesis is formulated into operational equations as follows: Based on the framework that has been disclosed, it can be said that the quality of good government financial statements will have a positive effect on good governance (Table 1). Harahap (2006), the quality of government financial reports can be produced through the application of accrual-based accounting systems (Harun, 2009). keywords: accountability; accounting; effect; governance; government; information; journal; management; papua; public; quality; reporting; reports; results; sector; statements cache: ijefi-8047.pdf plain text: ijefi-8047.txt item: #221 of 246 id: ijefi-8052 author: Audi, Marc; Ali, Amjad title: Exploring the Linkage between Corruption and Economic Development in The Case of Selected Developing and Developed Nations date: 2019-07-02 words: 9464 flesch: 52 summary: Corruption can be considered as the oil that greases the economic growth engine (Anoruo and Braha, 2005), however, it is broadly perceived that the disadvantages of corruption are far outweighed compared to its advantages. Corruption is a prevalent irrespective of development, every country has to face a specific level of corruption. keywords: adf; coefficient; corruption; development; fisher; integration; level; panel; results; statistic; table; values; variables cache: ijefi-8052.pdf plain text: ijefi-8052.txt item: #222 of 246 id: ijefi-8053 author: Buheji, Mohamed title: Re-defining Our Approaches to Extreme Poverty: An Attempt to Disrupting Contemporary Poverty Alleviation Approaches through Inspiration Economy Project- A Case Study date: 2019-07-02 words: 7760 flesch: 49 summary: The way poverty models are designed has a significant impact on how the future generations of the poor would be transformed out of their community towards the middle-class. Part of the goals of re-defining the models of poverty approaches is to enhance the cognitive-capacity. keywords: approaches; economy; extreme; iba; inspiration; issues; life; models; people; poverty; projects; type; world cache: ijefi-8053.pdf plain text: ijefi-8053.txt item: #223 of 246 id: ijefi-8059 author: Assamoi, Guy Roland; Wang, Shaoyuan; Gnangoin, Yobouet Thierry Bienvenu; Edjoukou, Akadje Jean Roland title: Foreign Inputs and Changes in Domestic Value Added Exports: Empirical Evidence from Latin American Countries. date: 2019-05-29 words: 5579 flesch: 52 summary: By using panel data (1995-2016) with fixed effects model, the paper finds that foreign value added (FVA) in exports is a strong determinant of positive changes in domestic value added exports in Latin America. Following Lopez, this paper aims to investigate the role of foreign factors on changes in domestic value added exports for seven This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Assamoi, et al.: keywords: changes; countries; dva; exports; fva; latin; sector; share; value cache: ijefi-8059.pdf plain text: ijefi-8059.txt item: #224 of 246 id: ijefi-8080 author: Al-Duhaidahawi, Hayder M. Kareem; Zhang, Jing; Abdulreza, Mustafa S.; Harjan, Sinan Abdullah; Shah, Sayyed Sadaqat Hussain title: The Role of Financial Inclusion and Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Iraqi Islamic Banks date: 2019-05-09 words: 5870 flesch: 42 summary: To be able to access a transaction account is the first step to comprehend financial services more broadly because such an account enables people to save money, deposit payments and receive them. In other words, a tremendous inclusion of financial services to the society signifies that the This Journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Al-Duhaidahawi et al.: keywords: advantage; banking; banks; countries; enterprises; financial; inclusion; islamic; journal; research; services; study cache: ijefi-8080.pdf plain text: ijefi-8080.txt item: #225 of 246 id: ijefi-8085 author: Tırpan, Ozgur title: Analyzing the Enablers for Turkish Defence Industry Supply Chains: An Interpretive Structural Modelling Approach date: 2019-05-22 words: 5438 flesch: 39 summary: In addition, Elrod et al., referred to have a flexible supply understanding for especially duplicate production firms in defense industry supply chains, in order to present quality products while not decreasing profitability means to stay competitive (Elrod et al., 2013). After initial conceptual enablers are identified by the expert opinions a Table 1: Enablers of Turkish defense industry supply chain and related references Defense industry supply chain related elements References E1 R&D ability Gates, 2004; Graham and Hardaker, 1998; Jackson, 2004. keywords: chain; defense; enablers; industry; information; management; supply cache: ijefi-8085.pdf plain text: ijefi-8085.txt item: #226 of 246 id: ijefi-8227 author: Hachimi, Amina; Salahddine, M. My Abdelouhab title: The Acceptability of Participatory Banking Products by SMEs: A Conceptual Framework date: 2019-08-06 words: 6646 flesch: 42 summary: The majority of these empirical studies on the intention to adopt Islamic banking products and services have been conducted in countries where Islamic finance has already been in place for years, for example, Malaysia, the Gulf countries, Pakistan, Jordan, Indonesia and the United Kingdom. Since participatory banking products are still a form of bank innovation, the adoption of this form of financing will only be feasible when the application of Islamic banking products and services is readily assimilated and agreed by the clients. keywords: banking; banking products; banks; customers; et al; financing; international; islamic; journal; participatory; products; smes cache: ijefi-8227.pdf plain text: ijefi-8227.txt item: #227 of 246 id: ijefi-8346 author: Hilal, Achmad; Samono, Samono title: Analysis of the Effect of Company Micro Fundamental Factors on Company Value in Companies Listed in LQ 45 Index date: 2019-07-16 words: 3151 flesch: 52 summary: Company value is paid by prospective investors when a company is sold. CR has no significant negative effect on company value (Tobin’s Q). keywords: company; effect; ratio; tobin; value cache: ijefi-8346.pdf plain text: ijefi-8346.txt item: #228 of 246 id: ijefi-8659 author: Houcine, Benlaria; Zouheyr, Gheraia title: Estimating the Economic returns of Education in KSA by using Mincerian Earnings Function date: 2019-10-24 words: 4317 flesch: 48 summary: Higher Education, 3(2), 165-185. McMahon, W.W. (1975), Economic and demographic effects on investment in higher education. The Journal of Higher Education, 55(5), 590-608. Tilak, J.B.G. (1995), Funding higher education in India. keywords: economic; education; experience; individual; investment; rate; return; table; years cache: ijefi-8659.pdf plain text: ijefi-8659.txt item: #229 of 246 id: ijefi-8862 author: Pham, Viet Quoc; Nguyen, Dinh Trung title: The Impact of Managerial Overconfidence on Capital Structure: Empirical Evidences in Vietnam date: 2019-11-18 words: 7351 flesch: 55 summary: Since the publication of Modigliani and Miller (1958), many authors have studied capital structure studies in developed countries such as Bevan and Danbolt (2002), Akhtar and Oliver (2009), Frank and Goyal (2003) and developing countries such as Booth et al. Research results show that managerial overconfidence has an impact on corporate capital structure, in particular firms with overconfident managers have higher overall leverage and short-term liabilities, but tend to reduce long-term debt ratio. keywords: capital; capital structure; debt; finance; firms; journal; managers; overconfidence; research; structure; term; vietnam cache: ijefi-8862.pdf plain text: ijefi-8862.txt item: #230 of 246 id: ijefi-8920 author: Alsabban, Soleman; Alarfaj, Omar title: An Empirical Analysis of Behavioral Finance in the Saudi Stock Market: Evidence of Overconfidence Behavior date: 2019-12-17 words: 11045 flesch: 56 summary: Stock Market Returns and Overconfidence Bias The correlation between stock market returns and overconfidence has been under the scope for many years. They pointed out that each investor’s overconfidence level depends on past successes and failures in stock market trading. keywords: behavior; bias; finance; investors; journal; market; market turnover; model; mret; overconfidence; results; returns; saudi; stock market; test; trading; turnover cache: ijefi-8920.pdf plain text: ijefi-8920.txt item: #231 of 246 id: ijefi-8981 author: Manirakiza, Dismas; Mulumeoderhwa, Fidèle; Maniriho, Aristide; Ndimanya, Patrice; Lebailly, Philippe title: Impact of Farmers' Cooperatives on Socio-economic Living Conditions of Rural Households in North of Burundi date: 2019-12-23 words: 6933 flesch: 50 summary: However, despite an increase of membership in agricultural food cooperatives in rural areas and a strong support from various stakeholders, it is clear that the living conditions of farming households have not been improved. By coming in first position with a coverage rate in agricultural cooperatives of food products of 4.6%, the province of Ngozi has in this context benefited from a strong support from the technical and financial partners for historical reasons of recurrence of food insecurity and increasing poverty. keywords: access; burundi; conditions; cooperatives; farmers; groups; health; households; impact; living; members; non; rural; socio; study cache: ijefi-8981.pdf plain text: ijefi-8981.txt item: #232 of 246 id: ijefi-8990 author: Al Mubarak, Muneer Mohamed Saeed title: Five Senses for Effective and Sustainable Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy date: 2019-12-17 words: 5419 flesch: 40 summary: The main approach for collecting information for discussion was the literature review focusing on topics such as CSR strategy, CSR activities, sustainability and sensemaking. A gap was found between what firms do and what are expected to deliver to the society in terms of CSR activities and requirements. keywords: activities; csr; firms; journal; responsibility; senses; society; stakeholders; strategy cache: ijefi-8990.pdf plain text: ijefi-8990.txt item: #233 of 246 id: ijefi-9094 author: Asngari, Imam; Suhel, Suhel; Bashir, Abdul; Arief, Andi Nurul A.; Susanti, Era title: Rice Consumption Pattern of Rural Households in East OKU and South OKU Regencies South Sumatra Province Indonesia date: 2020-02-21 words: 5798 flesch: 60 summary: The response of households to the increase in rice food prices can be a guide for the government to implement rice food price policies, as well as adequate stock policies to anticipate trends in changes in rice food consumption over time and as a guide for the development of food diversification in the future (Faharuddin et al., 2015). Method of analyzing rice food consumption by using descriptive quantitative approaches and multiple logistic regression models. keywords: consumption; demand; east; east oku; food; oku; regency; rice; rice consumption; south; south oku cache: ijefi-9094.pdf plain text: ijefi-9094.txt item: #234 of 246 id: ijefi-9101 author: Eyo, Emmanuel O.; Nwaogu, Merrian A.; Agenson, Michael E. title: Agricultural Credit Guarantee in Nigeria and the Uncertainties of the Macroeconomic Environment date: 2020-03-01 words: 8651 flesch: 46 summary: During SAP Special interest on agricultural loan was abolished and subsidy on agricultural inputs was deemphasized. The long-run estimates showing the effect of changes in interest rate and other variables on the volume of agricultural loan guaranteed is presented in Table 7. keywords: acgs; bank; credit; credit guarantee; environment; guarantee; interest; journal; loans; nigeria; output; rate; scheme; sector; study; value; variables; volume cache: ijefi-9101.pdf plain text: ijefi-9101.txt item: #235 of 246 id: ijefi-9103 author: Alrefai, Ahmed Hussein title: Is Amman Stock Exchange an Indicator of Jordan's Economic Performance? date: 2019-12-20 words: 3796 flesch: 64 summary: Therefore, the objective of this research is to investigate whether Jordan stock market prices cause changes in the economy. *Email: aalrefai@fbsu.edu.sa Received: 07 October 2019 Accepted: 12 December 2019 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.9103 ABSTRACT There have been great debate in the literature on the impact of stock market on the economic performance, as some believe that higher stock prices increase the wealth of people and stimulate further investment leading to higher consumption and investment, consequently higher GDP. keywords: economy; gdp; granger; jordan; market; prices; stock; stock market cache: ijefi-9103.pdf plain text: ijefi-9103.txt item: #236 of 246 id: ijefi-9120 author: Salameh, Hussein; Alodadi, Ahmed; Alzubi, Khaled title: The Effect of Sovereign Debt on Economic Growth: The Case of Oil-Rich Countries date: 2020-03-16 words: 4587 flesch: 56 summary: *Email: salameh2272017@gmail.com Received: 17 December 2019 Accepted: 03 March 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.9120 ABSTRACT 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 sovereign debt on economic prosperity in several oil-rich countries between 2002 and 2017. keywords: countries; debt; gggd; government; growth; oil; rgdp; test; variable cache: ijefi-9120.pdf plain text: ijefi-9120.txt item: #237 of 246 id: ijefi-9303 author: Alakbarov, Urkhan; Habibova, Ziyafat; Rahimli, Rajab title: The Role of Human Resources in Comprehensive Regional Sustainable Development: The Case of Azerbaijan date: 2020-04-20 words: 3288 flesch: 39 summary: With the understanding that a strong correlation exists between human resources and sustainable economic development, states and governments should adopt policies that effectively address these interconnected elements in order to reach the goal of prosperity of individuals under the slogan “inclusive societies.” With an understanding that there is a strong correlation between human resources and sustainable economic development, governments should adopt policies that promote the above three interrelated elements in the endeavor of reaching the goal of prosperity of individuals in line with the slogan “inclusive societies.” keywords: azerbaijan; countries; development; economic; human; resources; world cache: ijefi-9303.pdf plain text: ijefi-9303.txt item: #238 of 246 id: ijefi-9488 author: Dervishaj, Blerina; Xhaferi, Teftjola title: The Impact of Psychological Biases on the Decision-making of the Individual Albanian Investor date: 2020-04-20 words: 7692 flesch: 53 summary: Steps of Quantitative Strategy The quantitative analysis explores the importance of psychological biases on individual investor decision making in financial assets in Albania. “Availibility” affects individual investment decision making on financial assets at a moderate level EM: I believe this finding is within the expectations of the Albanian investor. keywords: alpha; analysis; biases; decision; impact; individual; investment; investor; item; making; raw_alpha; table; value cache: ijefi-9488.pdf plain text: ijefi-9488.txt item: #239 of 246 id: ijefi-9520 author: Al-Slehat, Zaher Abdel Fattah title: Financial Performance as Mediator on the Impact of Investment and Financial Decisions on Stock Price and Future Profit: The Case of the Jordanian Financial Sector date: 2020-03-06 words: 4850 flesch: 49 summary: Financial decision exhibits no effect on future profits and stock prices, whereas investment decision affects future profits and stock prices. By contrast, financial performance fails to mediate the impact of financial decision and stock prices. keywords: decision; effect; future; investment; investment decision; performance; prices; profits; return; stock cache: ijefi-9520.pdf plain text: ijefi-9520.txt item: #240 of 246 id: ijefi-9521 author: Abdo, Khawla K. title: The Impact of Internal Variables on the Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks Financial Performance in Jordan: A Comparative Study date: 2020-12-04 words: 7530 flesch: 42 summary: The Importance of Studying This study draws its significance by addressing a relatively recent topic, which is of great interest to Islamic banks operating in Jordan namely: Jordan Islamic Bank for Investment and Finance and Arab Islamic international Bank, which They have experience in Islamic banking, Derived from the borrowing policy and interest rate, and will be through the measurement of the impact of internal variables on the financial performance of these banks, and to know how Islamic banks are flexible in responding to those variables compared to the flexibility of conventional banks to those variables, and can maintain their financial position and competitiveness in the sector Banking. The results showed that Islamic banks outperformed their asset growth and net income from financing activities and had better liquidity compared to conventional banks. keywords: banks; effect; hypothesis; islamic; level; performance; return; variables cache: ijefi-9521.pdf plain text: ijefi-9521.txt item: #241 of 246 id: ijefi-9532 author: Saidu, Ishaq; Marafa, Abbas Abdullahi title: The Effect of Financial Sector Development on Poverty Reduction in Nigeria: An Empirical Investigation date: 2020-07-11 words: 6715 flesch: 45 summary: In addition, the study suggests that financial instability may hurt the poor and retards the beneficial effect of financial development particularly in the short run. The argument was whether financial development spurs economic growth or growth drives financial development. keywords: bank; credit; development; economic; effect; gdp; growth; instability; journal; model; nigeria; poverty; poverty reduction; reduction; run; sector cache: ijefi-9532.pdf plain text: ijefi-9532.txt item: #242 of 246 id: ijefi-962 author: Srithongrung, Arwiphawee; Sánchez-Juárez, Isaac title: Fiscal Policies and Subnational Economic Growth in Mexico date: 2014-11-03 words: 7196 flesch: 49 summary: Because we found strong trends in subnational public investment data and strong cointegrating trends between public spending and growth, we chose Error Correction Model (ECM) suggested by Kennedy (1998) to correct unit roots and cointegration while estimating the effects of taxes and public investment on growth. Conclusions This paper investigates the effect of taxes and public investment on state economic growth in Mexico. keywords: data; economic; effects; gdp; growth; investment; model; public; spending; state; taxes; variables; year cache: ijefi-962.pdf plain text: ijefi-962.txt item: #243 of 246 id: ijefi-9760 author: Nguyen, Van-Thep; Liu, Day-Yang title: The Impact of Ownership Structure on Vietnamese Commercial Banks' Profitability date: 2020-05-13 words: 5637 flesch: 47 summary: Section 2 provides a literature review on the determinants of bank profitability. In addition, Djalilov and Piesse (2016) analyzed determinants of bank profitability in transition countries in the period 2000-2013, emphasized that credit risk, government spending, monetary freedom, as well as squared terms of government spending and monetary freedom affect banks’ profitability negatively. keywords: banks; commercial; growth; model; ownership; profitability; ratio; structure; variables cache: ijefi-9760.pdf plain text: ijefi-9760.txt item: #244 of 246 id: ijefi-9779 author: Ullah, Sami; Malik, Zilakat K. title: Analysis of the Determinants of Participation, Strengths and Weaknesses of Vocational Trainings of Federally Administered Tribal Area's Development Authority date: 2020-05-02 words: 7647 flesch: 45 summary: Vocational skills training means the acquisition of practical skills related to different occupation i.e. engineering, construction, agriculture, carpentry, dress making, automobile and electronic etc. The participation rate of youth in vocational skills training is far less than enrolment in general education. keywords: course; development; economics; education; employment; family; fata; individuals; international; journal; participation; program; respondents; skills; statement; technical; training; youth cache: ijefi-9779.pdf plain text: ijefi-9779.txt item: #245 of 246 id: ijefi-9799 author: Omar, Farhan Abdi; Hussein, Abdishakur Mohamed title: The Stability of Money Demand Function: Evidence from South Africa date: 2020-09-04 words: 6027 flesch: 62 summary: In the South African context, a few papers examined the relationship between money demand and its determinant. Friedman proposed stock market affects money demand in different channels: (1) Through income effect (positive): An increase of stock price reveals a rise of wealth that can result in higher money demand. keywords: demand; function; journal; money; money demand; south; stability; t t; test cache: ijefi-9799.pdf plain text: ijefi-9799.txt item: #246 of 246 id: ijefi-9925 author: Venkatachary, Sampath Kumar; Prasad, Jagdish; Samikannu, Ravi; Baptist, Leo John; Alagappan, Annamalai; Ravi, Rohini title: COVID-19 -An Insight into Various Impacts on Health, Society and Economy date: 2020-07-11 words: 5050 flesch: 57 summary: Social impacts COVID 19 also has left its mark in the form of forced social distancing, no handshakes, masking, and so on striking at the heart of societies. Park, J.S., Lee, E.H., Park, N.R., Choi, Y.H. (2018), Mental health of nurses working at a government-designated hospital during a MERS- CoV outbreak: A cross-sectional study. keywords: countries; covid-19; economy; growth; health; impacts; international; measures; momentum; pandemic; slump; society; workers cache: ijefi-9925.pdf plain text: ijefi-9925.txt