The paper aims to study the determinants of price stickiness proxied by the frequency of price changes in Vietnam by using the Poisson regression model with survey data. We find that the frequency of price changes is positively and negatively related with firms’ choice of time de...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/29561
This research has divided the consumer shopping behaviors into pre- and post-purchase models in order to conduct a further discussion. Product attributes, gathering Electronic Word-of-Mouth (eWOM) and pre-purchase customer satisfaction are included in the pre-purchase model, and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/29187
A range of factors can influence the performance of employees and hence success of any organisation. Some of these factors include quality of work life, job satisfaction and dispositional factors like personality of employees. This study explored the influence of personality on r...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28334
This study applied annual data of capital flows and macroeconomic variables in the Nigerian economic environment, for a period of twenty-nine (29) years. The data were collated from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistics database, and the E-views8 statistical software was used to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28335
This study examined the determinants of private domestic savings in Nigeria (1980- 2015), using data obtained from CBN and IMF-IFS online. The econometric analytic tools used are, co integration test, vector error correction model, Granger causality test. In the model, domestic p...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27712
The study analyses the economic viabilities of the production technology alternatives adopted by smallholder honey producers in Southwestern Nigeria. Economic data were collected from officials of the Bee-Keepers’ Association of Nigeria in three purposively selected states in Sou...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/27838
The nature of input relationships has important consequences for regulatory policies since the impact of rate-of-return regulation depends on the extent of substitution that is offered by production technologies which are adopted by regulated firms. The use of classical regressio...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28214
This study analyzed timber market structure and efficiency in Benue State. Applying a multistage sampling approach at 30% sampling intensity, seven out of 23 Local Government Areas in the State were sampled for the study. A total of 256 respondents (164 timber traders, 79 chainsa...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/26573
This study develops a theoretical model of institutional economics and corruption in order to determine the optimum institutional level that would allow the government to achieve economic equilibrium in the country, under an oligopolistic scheme of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28689
Both theoretical and empirical literatures have present mixed evidence on the impact of trade openness on growth. Recent studies indicate that the mixed results are conditioned, amongst others, on the quality of domestic institutions. This paper examines the evidence for a sample...
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Research Article10.9734/BJEMT/2016/28877