This paper presents a framework of setting the impawn rate dynamically by dividing the impawn period into different risk windows. Besides, it proposes that compared with pledging loan of bonds and stocks, the essence of inventory financing is to forecast the long-term risk from short-term data,...

Nigeria is endowed with abundant natural resources of which petroleum resources play a dominant role in the economy. These resources can be effectively harnessed and managed for the benefit of all Nigerians. Unfortunately, the distribution of petroleum products in the Nigerian economy is fraught...

Past research has consistently shown that companies with high level of technological competence are more likely to have higher product and process innovation performance. However, apart from technological competence, companies need other competences to promote innovation performance. In this...

The following study examines the relationship between transformational leadership and employees’ career salience. This research is conducted to answer the question that whether employees’ career salience has association with transformational leadership. This study focuses only on banking...

This paper examined the influence of financial learning on retirees’ retirement financial planning preparation. 750 questionnaires were distributed with a 53.9% return rate. Three hypotheses were analyzed using hierarchical regression analysis. The results revealed that some mediating effect...

TGreen purchasing is a key strategy for enterprises to reduce waste and improve efficiency and enhance competitiveness. Based on the survey of 144 companies, five Principal components of green purchasing practices were extracted through factor analysis using SPSS statistic software. And then,...

This study analyzes financial risk factors of China’s Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), employing Alexander Bathory model for the currently available data on the small and medium enterprise board in Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Financial risk is measured by the Alexander Bathory model....

Recent devastating global financial crisis started from United States, spread all over the world and adversely affected real and financial sectors of developed as well as developing countries. This crisis is called the first largest crisis after the recession of 1930s. The prime aim of this...

The paper studies the effect of remittances on inequality in rural Nigeria using the Nigeria Living standard survey collected in 2004 by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics. This study decomposed income inequality in rural Nigeria using the Gini-decomposition and regression-based approaches to...

After a joint venture agreement with a high-income country’s firm, an export-oriented but technologically backward firm in a low-income country may earn higher profit, but may not be able to improve its export market performance, unless the world market size is large. In a two-firm-two-country...