Business and Economics: Recent submissions
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Oil a Blessing or Curse: A Comparative Assessment of Nigeria, Norway and the United Arab Emirates
(2018-04)Oil booms have brought unprecedented wealth and development to some countries while in others this has not been the case. The latter is attributed to the resource curse phenomenon which has been explained by the Dutch ... -
Accounting Benefits of ERP Systems across the Different Manufacturing Industries of SMEs
(Scientific Research, 2018-04)As a result of the ongoing economic crisis and the international market competition, Greek SMEs, particularly the ones focusing in manufacture and production, need to stay profitable by increasing efficiency, while ... -
The Serendipity Theorem for an Endogenous Open Economy Growth Model
(Scientific Research, 2018-04)A Samuelsonian serendipity theorem for an endogenous growth model is derived. The formula for optimal population growth rate deviates from those of the model with exogenous population growth rates in a third best ... -
Short-Run and Long-Run Co-Movements in the Income-Consumption Relationship
(Scientific Research, 2018-04)The study uses the cointegration and common cycle analysis to test whether there are short-run and long-run co-movement relationships between incomes and varies consumption expenditure variables. The analysis aims ... -
The Implications of Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility—A Literature Review Perspective
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) contributions: the CSR levy. Using public interest theory as the theoretical lens, this paper adopts a pro-regulation ... -
On the Economic Premium Principle
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)In this study, we propose an equilibrium pricing rule to capture a characteristic observed in the practical option market. The market has observed that the implied volatility derived from the Black-Scholes formula is ... -
Income Inequality Measures
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)Income distributions are commonly unimodal and skew with a heavy right tail. Different skew models, such as the lognormal and the Pareto, have been proposed as suitable descriptions of income distribution and applied in ... -
Transparency and Financing Choices of Family Firms
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)Past literature indicates that family firms were different from nonfamily firms in term of performance, governess and disclosure. But there was very little evidence which specified the financial structure of family firm. ... -
Testing Leverage and Spillover Effects in Precious Metal ETFs
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)This research employed the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity-in-Mean-Autoregressive Moving Average (GARCH-M-ARMA) and the Exponentially Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity- ... -
A Study on Spatial Distribution and Characteristics of Moving Companies
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)The purpose of this study is to propose a method of establishing demand zone in the estimation of industrial complex needs. Demand estimates of existing industrial complexes are mainly based on survey method, which leads ... -
Relationship between Spot and Future Prices of Crude Oil: A Cointegration Analysis
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)The study was intended to reveal the relationship among the spot and future price of crude oil, which in turn will help in determining the prices of crude oil. While structuring a portfolio, high correlation among assets ... -
When Utility Jumps: The Value of Having Cash in the Hand
(Scientific Research, 2018-02)Different theoretical explanations have been developed for seemingly inconsistent actions that deal with varying levels of risk and time. We propose a simple model of utility that unifies these seemingly separate ... -
Justification of the Coexistence of Formal and Informal Reciprocal Loans in Developing Countries
(Scientific Research, 2017-10)This paper provides a new justification for the coexistence of formal and informal reciprocal loans in developing countries. We develop an investment model capable of comparing the financing costs of different financing ... -
Sovereign Marketing: A New Strategy of Marketing
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)The importance of “sovereign” consumerism is well established in business and marketing theory. It is a familiar business saying that the consumer is the king of the market or market king, which is truer in theory rather ... -
Identification of the Type of Strategic Policy for Sustainable Development on the Basis of Territorial Characterization. A Case Study in Canton Baños de Agua Santa, Tungurahua, Ecuador
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)This study was carried out in Baños de Agua Santa, Province of Tungurahua-Ecuador; From the time of Spanish colonization to the present day, the failure to implement sustainable development policies has led to the decline ... -
Bank Capitalisation and Stock Market Liquidity: Assessing the Evidence
(Scientific Research, 2017-10)This paper provides both theoretical and empirical evidence for assessing the relationship between bank capitalisation and stock market liquidity. It estimates a bivariate VAR-GARCH (1.1) model to examine the linkage ... -
The Sustainability of Japan’s Government Debt: A Review
(Scientific Research, 2017-10)This paper reviews the literature on the sustainability of Japanese government debt/deficit. First, we offer an overview of the approaches and the key findings on the sustainability analysis. Second, we introduce the ... -
Corruption and Economic Growth: The Case of EMCCA
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)This article analyzes the relationship between corruption and economic growth in the countries of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (EMCCA). To our knowledge, there are no works dealing with the direct ... -
Revenue and Knowledge Cooperation Mechanisms between Business Incubators and Venture Capitalists for Collaborative Start-Ups
(Scientific Research, 2017-08)Business incubators and venture capital are effective instruments for supporting the development of new firms. The purpose of this paper is to explore cooperation mechanisms between business incubators and venture ... -
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 ...
