Aims: This paper analyzes the role of house prices in monetary policy transmission mechanisms in Taiwan using structural VAR (SVAR). The discussion of the role of asset prices in the monetary policy transmission mechanism can help us determine the effectiveness of monetary policy...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4835
The ever-expanding technological innovations have stirred a phenomenal transmutation of the face of businesses across the globe, especially the mobile telecommunications sectors resulting in the introduction of mobile money transfer services (MMTs). This paper sought to analyse t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4670
The effect of budget deficits on the economy is one of the most important unresolved issues in public economics and macroeconomics. Based on a simple loanable funds model that describes the relationship between budget deficits and long-term interest rates, this study empirically...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5146
This article specified a semiparametric stochastic frontier function using generalized additive models that accounts for random noise in the sample data. We estimated the parameters of the model by applying the generalized spline-smoothing approach to measure technical efficiency...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5149
Aims: The study empirically analyzed consumers’ preference for mobile telecommunication attributes in Nigeria, using conjoint analysis. Study Design: Survey design, through 200 dedicated mobile phone users, were conveniently sampled in Yaba and Akoka environs of Lagos State for t...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3427
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of China’s monetary policy on stock price in different economic backgrounds by constructing the SVAR (Structural Vector Auto Regression) based on the standard VAR (Vector Auto Regression). The results show that: (i) In different economic...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4527
Entrepreneurship becomes more important nowadays in the strategic management process, in particular, in the company’s ability to increase profitability over time. From the view of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs notice opportunities from where they act and create new hierarchies...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4585
This study analyzed credit worthiness and loan repayment performance of cassava and yam farmers in cross river state. Specifically, the study assessed credit worthiness of borrowers, identified factors that discriminate between credit worthy and non credit worthy farmers and anal...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/5006
Although, a vast amount of literature has emerged on determinants of FDI across the globe, yet research in a Saudi Arabian context remains limited. This study is an attempt to fill this gap where determinants of resource-seeking FDI are analyzed over a period of 30 years. The stu...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/3739
Travel constraints in contemporary Nigeria have affected all sectors of the economy. This trend had impacted on small traders in terms of higher cost of doing business, and individual travel behavior over time. Insecurity and travel time constraints had affected the growth of the...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2013/4650