August 2013
Evaluating profit organizations’ financial tools development strategy for managing crises
The purpose of the present study is to evaluate profit organizations’ financial tools development strategy in order to find limits. These limits can help the strategy to organize development internationally and locally without solving crises with negative effect. The study found out that there were negative outcomes because profit organizations were ignorant of their responsibility and were revenue oriented...
August 2013
Interest rate pass-through to bank mortgage and participation bond rates in South Africa: Evidence from ARDL and FMLS models
This paper examines the degree of pass-through and the adjustment speed of the bank rate and partB rate in response to changes in the repo and treasury bill rates in South Africa for the period 1998M4 to 2011M1. The repo rate is the policy rate while the treasury bill rate (TBR) represents money market rates. We employ the ARDL and FMLS estimators to test for co-integration over the whole sample...
August 2013
An assessment of Nigeria expenditure on the agricultural sector: Its relationship with agricultural output (1980 - 2011)
A strong and an efficient agricultural sector would enable a country to feed its growing population, generate employment, earn foreign exchange and provide raw materials for industries. This study makes a modest contribution to the debates by empirically analyzing the relationship between Nigeria government expenditure on the agricultural sector and its contribution to economic growth, using time series data...
August 2013
Sustainability of the Malawian current account deficit: Application of structural and solvency approaches
The objective of the paper is to examine the sustainability of current account in Malawi. The study employs econometric analysis and solvency approaches to complement each other. Results from both approaches confirm that Malawi’s current account deficits were excessive and unsustainable during the period of 1980 to 2010. Results from the econometric analysis reveal that for Malawi’s current...
August 2013
Impact of motivation on employees’ performance: A case study of CreditWest Bank Cyprus
An important role of management is to help make work more satisfying and rewarding for employees and to make employees’ motivation consistent with organizational objectives. With the diversity of contemporary workplaces, this is a complex task. Many factors, including the influences of different cultures, affect what people value and what is rewarding to them. From a manager's perspective, this...
August 2013
Relationship between ethical leadership and value creation
The theme of value creation, being the source of this research, has received increased interest in the field of management science, and hence has become the new creed of managers. We have proposed that ethical behavior of managers influences the policy of value creation. In particular, we test the four cardinal virtues of the manager (justice, prudence, strength and moderation) that influence development and...
August 2013
Insurance development and economic growth in Nigeria, 1986-2010
This study analyzed both the long and short run relationship between insurance development and economic growth in Nigeria over the period 1986 to 2010. Using error correction model (ECM), the study finds that insurance development cointegrated with economic growth in Nigeria. That is there is long run relationship between insurance development and economic growth in Nigeria. The results also shows that...
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