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Determinants of Oil Futures Prices
(Scientific Research, 2016-08)
This study is directed at predicting the determinants of oil futures prices. We evaluate commodity
pricing with oil occupying a special position due to highly inelastic demand. Given the sudden fall
in oil prices, there ...
Tourism and Employment Spillovers in a Small Island Developing State: A Dynamic Investigation
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)
Using a dynamic vector error correction model, and catering for dynamism and endogeneity, the
present study attempts to address the question on whether tourism development enhances employment
in Mauritius using time ...
Does Innovative Financing Increase the Firm Performance? An Empirical Investigation of Indian Manufacturing Firms
(Scientific Research, 2016-04)
The firms mobilizing resources using innovative debt from market reduce dependence on the traditional
banking and financial institutions. The firms raising resources by directly approaching
public have some incentive to ...
Non-Linear Effect of Remittances on Banking Sector Development: Panel Evidence from Developing Countries
(Scientific Research, 2016-10)
This paper examines the impact of remittances on financial sector development in a
panel of 19 developing countries. Contrary to previous studies that focus on mean
effects, it uses quantile regression methodology to ...
Using Patents in Promotional Activities
(Scientific Research, 2016-10)
A traditional view of patents and patenting shows a trade-off between the benefit of
appropriation and the cost of information revelation. However, firms may benefit
from information revelation to consumers because patents ...
A Method for Estimating the Participation Rate of Elder Care
(Scientific Research, 2016-06)
This paper focused on estimating the participation rate of care giving to elders. We used a theoretical
model frame that was in common use for analyzing activity in the labor market and adjusted
it for analyzing the care ...
Financial Integration and Portfolio Diversification: Evidence from CIVETS Stock Markets
(Scientific Research, 2016-12)
This paper investigates the extent of financial integration among a new group of six
frontier markets called “CIVETS” by utilizing the multivariate GARCH framework
of Engle and Kroner [1]. These countries are expected ...
Research on the Method of Capitalization of Entertainment Products in GDP Statistics
(Scientific Research, 2016-06)
It is one of directions of the reform about China’s national economic statistics system to incorporate
the intellectual property products into the GDP statistics, and the capital of intellectual property
products is the ...
Speed of Adjustment of Capital Structure in Emerging Markets
(Scientific Research, 2016-06)
Speed of Adjustment (SOA) is a concept well studied in the area of capital structure. The concept is
premised upon the fact that firms have a target capital structure for the next year and strive to
achieve this target; ...
Non-Neutral Technological Progress and Income Distribution—Piketty’s Fundamental Laws in a Neoclassical Two-Sector Model
(Scientific Research, 2016-12)
This paper discusses the theoretical validity of Thomas Piketty’s fundamental laws
about income distribution in the context of a standard neoclassical growth model.
We take Uzawa’s two-sector growth model as the platform ...