This study evaluates the response of stock market volatility to foreign equity investments. Specifically, the study examines how foreign portfolio investment and foreign direct equity investment influence stock market volatility in Nigeria, using monthly data from January 2007 to July 2017....

This paper empirically explores the impact of pension funds on market development. The goal of the paper is to link the credit rating of a country and the development of the financial market. At the same time, we will make a link between the structure and size of pension funds and the...

This study has adopted the quantitative research approach for collecting data from different branches of the Bank of Khyber that are operating in the vicinity of the Saddar region, Peshawar city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The sample size consists of 60 employees. A total of 18...

Trade is an essential indicator for measuring a country's economic condition. It is also an effective way of balancing goods and services among countries. No country in the modern world is self-sufficient in goods and services. That is the reason for emerging the economic concept of trade. The...

Classical financial market theories built upon the assumption of a perfect market have been coping with frictions on both developed and emerging markets. There are numerous factors affecting the operation of financial markets and their participants' behavior, but illiquidity is a continuous...

We investigate the determinants of core inflation in Macedonia and show that the most important drivers of the cumulative core inflation in the post crisis period i.e. between 2010-16 relative to 2008-09 are underutilization of labor in the form of involuntary part-time employment and headline...

An efficient stock market plays an important role in stimulating economic development through providing a channel for mobilising domestic savings and facilitating the allocation of financial resources from dormant to more productive activities. This paper evaluates the Ugandan Securities...

The idea of the relation between the economic development level and the balance of payments position is not a new one. Yet, this idea was formalized for the first time in the early 1960s by Charles Kindl.berger in the form of the balance of payments evolution scheme. Although this is a rather...

In the last two decades, the economy has moved from industrial to knowledgebased, with the result that basic economic resources no longer consist of natural resources, capital and labor, but knowledge. In a knowledge based economy, what creates a competitive advantage and value is the resources...

The paper presents a research on employees' job and communication satisfaction, as well as on financial performances on the example of a mid-sized Serbian company. The company operates in the field of food industry. The research was carried out by means of standardized questionnaires and the...