This study explores the relationship between agency cost and credit risk of quoted commercial banks in Nigeria. Five hypotheses were formulated following the dependent variable of credit risk which we proxy as non-performing loan. The independent variables employed for this study...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v17i230254
The study evaluated the effect of fair value reporting on financial profitability and firm value with focus on deposit money banks listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange Using a sample of 13 banks quoted on the Exchange, the study employed secondary data gathered from published an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v17i130253
The study analysed household participation in urban agriculture in Kogi State, Nigeria. It specifically; described the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents; determined the factors that influence household participation in urban agriculture; and determined the effect o...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v17i130251
This study examines the capital market reaction from the declaration of the presidential and vice presidential candidates for the 2018 presidential election, which will be marked by the presence or absence of abnormal returns. The samples used are stocks that are incorporated int...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v17i130252
The pricing system for soybean is complex because it involves interactions between the markets for soybean grain, soybean meal and soybean oil. The study was undertaken with the objective of identifying and describing the constraints, challenges and opportunities of soybean produ...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v17i130250
This paper seeks to analyze the unintended accompanying effects of the Bank of Ghana’s financial sector sanitization popularly referred to as “clean-up exercise” which ended in August 2019 on the operations of unaffected financial institutions with ardent interest in customer dep...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v17i130249
Electronic recruitment (E-recruitment) has become a common phenomenon due to the increasing utilization of information technology by the human resource departments in many organizations around the world. However, recently, we can also observe the integration of social media as a...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i430248
This study investigated the effect of cash flow optimality on investment returns in selected listed Manufacturing companies in Nigeria. The population consisted of listed 66 manufacturing companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. 25 of these manufacturing companies were purposive...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i430247
Aims: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of self-directed learning readiness on developing entrepreneurial behaviors through social learning in the context of entrepreneurship education programs offered by state sector universities of Sri Lanka. Study Design: Co...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i430246
High food prices are seen as synonymous with food insecurity. This is because it defiles one of the four cardinals of food security; food accessibility. To ensure the attainment of food security which is a common denominator in the United Nation’s MDGs and SDG as eradication of h...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i430244
United Nation set seventeen Sustainable Development Goals for all its member countries to achieve them by 2030. Pakistan is also a member of UN and is required to achieve these SDGs by 2030. Literature on SDGs pointed out that Pakistan is working on these goals especially on 05 b...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i430243
The paper empirically examines the effects of selected macroeconomic variables on stock market returns in Nigeria within the period 1985 and 2014 with a view to determining the macro-factors determining stock market returns in Nigeria. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) ap...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i330242
This research paper is an endeavor to look at the present status of corporate governance in banking sector of Bangladesh. Corporate Governance ensures to bring transparency, accountability and professionalism within the management system of a company body that enhances the credib...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i330241
This paper explores the graduates’ perception on job search from relevant sources. The study adopts descriptive analysis and has applied purposive sampling technique to collect data from 350 students of different MBA colleges inside the Kathmandu valley. Logit model is used for t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i330240
This study investigated the nexus of crude oil price shocks and exchange rates of Tanzanian shillings (TSh) as an oil importing country. Using weekly series data for the period 01/01/2005 to 31/12/2015, Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model was employed to test the relationship of cr...
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Research Article10.9734/ajeba/2020/v16i330239