Commitment to Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is a segment of students' positive or negative behavior in the academic community. We define the negative behavior as students' commitment to plagiarism and copyright violation. The overall objective of this paper is to give a recommendation to...

The optimal currency for a country is an important topic. While it is difficult to identify the best option overall, for all stakeholders and including political considerations, it is easier to answer the more limited question of the title: Which currency is best for business in a small country?...

In the traditional banking model, loans play a dominant role in banks' operations. Loan portfolio quality is the main generator of banks' results. In the periods of best results, as well as in times of worst performance of banks' operations, the reasons for success or failure have been...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the behaviour of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) sector indices. Specifically, the paper analyzes the returns correlation, serial correlation and heteroscedasticity on the NSE All-share Index, Banking Index, Consumer Goods Index, Oil & Gas Index, NSE 30...

The intention of this paper is to examine the relationship between the dividend policy and share prices of companies on the Macedonian Stock Exchange in order to define whether the dividend policy is a factor determining the share price volatility, and if so, how to use this possibility to...

In this paper, we study the interdependent relationship between three types of investments: foreign direct investments, central government investments, and all other investments, and their role in the gross domestic product dynamics in the Republic of Macedonia, by employing the consistent...

It is one of the key targets of both national governments and the EU to reduce regional development differences. This paper reviews the proof of existence and potential explanations of subnational regional deviations in competitiveness. Then, the financial data of a sample of Hungarian...

The Institute of Business Sciences of the University of Miskolc carried out a survey of management consulting firms and enterprises in 2001, 2005-2006 (Szadai, 2007), 2011-2012 (Tokár-Szadai, 2014), and 2015-16 in North-eastern Hungary. The goal of our surveys was to determine the status...

In the traditional banking model, loans play a dominant role in banks’ operations. Loan portfolio quality is the main generator of banks’ results. In the periods of best results, as well as in times of worst performance of banks’ operations, the reasons for success or failure have been...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate the behaviour of Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) sector indices. Specifically, the paper analyzes the returns correlation, serial correlation and heteroscedasticity on the NSE All-share Index, Banking Index, Consumer Goods Index, Oil & Gas Index, NSE 30...