The main objective of this paper is to answer the question; does the market structure explain the variation in profitability of Indian cement industry? If yes, which measure; if no, why not? To answer this question, we used the empirical technique, the Davidson-MacKinnon’s J test, to test the...

The present study is an investigation on each of affective factors in cash demand of Refah Bank in Golestan Province. To this end, daily data of the related branches obtained from 15 months, from March 21, 2010 to June 20, 2011, has been used. The information of July month has also been used to...

For decades, the problem of governmental intervention on the markets provoked significant debates, representing even nowadays a controversial matter. A prevailing form of intervention is represented by subsidies. Although subsidies are regularly used by less-developed countries to stimulate...

The aim of the paper is to study factors affecting the purchase behaviour of the automobile consumer. At present, the automobile sector is facing stiff competition due to availability of local & foreign brands and increasing pre-sales and post-sales expectation of the customers. The study has...

The crux of any marketing strategy is to give business an advantage in a competitive market. The success of implementing a strategy is measured in economic terms by: sales volume, market share, profits, listed stock prices etc. In general, managers attach too much importance to obtaining...

Considerable attention has recently been conducted towards the analysis of increasing globalization and its effects on trade flows. Vertical specialization and global value chains represent the key idea embodied in this paper. The phenomenon happens when countries specialize in certain stages of...

Specialized terms can result from a number of semantic processes (e.g. meaning extension, meaning narrowing, meaning transfer), which affect words from the general vocabulary. In their turn, these processes can be language internal and take place in the absence of any influence from the outside,...

The paper addresses a topical issue at the international level due to the present pressure exerted by an increased public debt on most national budgets, but especially in Romania where there is also a large gap between the scientific literature regarding the concept of public organizations’...

Healthcare quality has been defined in different ways, depending on the dimension that the authors had in mind. Furthermore, if initially healthcare quality was defined and assessed from the specialists’ and researchers’ point of view, nowadays the importance of patient and the public...

This paper examines the impact of microfinance on credit expansion for microenterprises in Nigeria with an in-depth analysis of the effects of facilities offered by microfinance institutions on profit, income and savings as well as the train.ing. We used ANOVA and Turkey’s HSD test (Q...