This research examines the effects of bank reforms and regulatory controls recently enacted by emerging economies on cost efficiency of banks. The Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) is applied to the cases of Turkey and Egypt since both of these emerging markets adopted similar bank reforms...

Son preference in India results in abortion of female foetuses, and excess female infant mortality due to childhood neglect. Whether the increased use of abortion will reduce female infant mortality is a matter of debate. Using India's National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2005–2006, this...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate productivity gaps between firms with different shares of foreign equity in the presence of government restrictions on foreign ownership. Dubai, having such restrictions, and having multiple ownership structures within co-existing onshore and off-shore...

In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between Electricity Consumption (EC) and economic growth in Tunisia during 1971-2007. Empirical results of the study verify the absence of a long-term equilibrium relationship between EC and economic growth in Tunisia but verify the existence of...

This study reports the results of a survey distributed to business professionals, educators and students at the State of Qatar. The most important industry in Qatar, according to our respondents, is oil and gas, followed by banking, followed by manufacturing. The least important industries were...

Nepalese students in UK are struggling to balance tuition and other expenses in the short-run and for the gainful employment in the long run. The opportunity cost of emigration in a labour surplus economy of Nepal is very little in comparison to benefits from increased flow of remittances,...

This study aims to investigate the effect of international business to productivity levels of members of the Investment Compact (IC) programme – an initiative under the umbrella of stability pact for South Eastern Europe (SEE). Although the findings are mixed, they indicate clearly the limited...

Consistent with Human Capital Theory we show that observed earnings differentials are higher, based on the type of education. We track women employees in the Information Technology (IT) sector in Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, and, estimate the source of earnings differential, and...

The Western Balkan countries are characterised by a long period of transition to the market economy followed by their intention to integrate into the European Union. There are many benefits encouraging them to integrate and, in this paper, we are going to show the impact of the integration into...

The objective of this research is to strengthen the relevance of the theoretical corpus of Fama and Jensen (1983a, 1983b) and Jensen and Meckling (1992). To do so, we apply the theory of the organisational architecture to the investment process to understand its complexity and efficiency. We...