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Behavioural Finance: A Re-Examination of Prospect Theory
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
Behavioural finance has received a major impetus over the last two decades. In
this paper, we discuss the foundations which have helped in this paradigm
shift from traditional Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) to the ...
Risks to Financial Stability and Monetary Policy: Rules or Discretion?
(Scientific Research, 2017-06)
We evaluate monetary policy which is conducted in a way that addresses financial
stability as an explicit monetary policy objective using a simple game
theoretic model analysing the strategic interaction between a central ...
Measurement of Fiscal Absorbing Capacity in Megacities and Analysis on Their Influence Factors—Empirical Research Based on Factor Analysis Combined with Panel Data
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)
Fiscal absorbing capacity is an essential part of national capacity, whose
shortcoming would drive local governments to raise capital through nonstandardized
channels. Thus causing a negative effect on national ...
Predicting the Entrepreneurial Intentions of University Students: Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour in Zambia, Africa
(Scientific Research, 2017-10)
The current paper contributes to the entrepreneurial intention (EI) literature
by applying the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in a developing African
country with unique socio-economic and cultural context. Thus it ...
The Negative Effect of Brand Attachment: How Attachment Styles Help Explain Anti-Brand Behavior
(Scientific Research, 2017-01)
Enterprises tend to attach importance to consumer brand relationship in the marketing
context, especially the establishment and culture of attachment relationship,
and they try to maintain brand loyalty through consumers’ ...
Revisiting Domestic Savings and Economic Growth Analysis in Ghana
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
This study set out to ascertain the relationship between domestic savings and
economic growth in the midst of antecedent variables with yearly data during
the period of 1970-2013. Using Johansen cointegration test and ...
On Volatility Transmission from Crude Oil to Agricultural Commodities
(Scientific Research, 2017-02)
The paper examines volatility transmission from crude oil market to agricultural
commodities like wheat, corn, cotton and soybeans. We find that the
volatility transmission from crude oil to agricultural commodities ...
A Framework for Determining the Impact of Value Chain Participation on Smallholder Farm Efficiency
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)
We analyze the efficiency of wheat farmers toward the ever-increasing demand
for wheat in Tanzania. Translog production and cost functions were
utilized in the stochastic frontier analysis to examine technical, allocative, ...
Fighting Uncertainty with Uncertainty: A Baby Step
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)
We can overcome uncertainty with uncertainty. Using randomness in our
choices and in what we control, and hence in the decision making process, we
could potentially offset the uncertainty inherent in the environment and ...
Kautilya on Foresight, Oversight, Regulations, Ethics and Systemic Risk
(Scientific Research, 2017-04)
In the wake of the recent Great recession of 2008-9, prudential supervision
and “too-big-to-fail” have become the focal topics of discussion and policy.
Western countries have added prudential supervision to complement ...