The paper attempts to test the stability of money demand relations for four money aggregates in Turkey. The paper uses the Johansen multivariate cointegration analysis over the data covering the period, 1990:01-2005:12. The findings indicate that there is a stationary long-run relationship...

: Compared to several cross-country studies on the determinants of growth, time series approaches are relatively few and limited in scope. However, time series studies are useful for country-specific policies. But in the recent time series works, with a few exceptions, ad hoc specifications of...

The study proposes a theorem on the predictability of stock prices by using highway traffic as a variable. Using the Malaysian data and Granger causality approach, this study suggests that vehicles on highways help to predict the Malaysian stock prices. This study adds to the literature by...

Corporate management must be keenly aware of the factors that influence the long-term interest rates since it affects a host of profit-influencing and growth-influencing dimensions of strategy and operations, ranging from investment in capital decisions to financial investment of retained...

The study identifies and analyzes the factors that influence the adoption of new technologies in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The study suggests that industry-specific characteristics such as skill- and export-intensiveness have bearings on the degree of the adoption of Information...

The main purpose of this paper is to propose a new method based on the fuzzy set approach that makes it possible to define a multidimensional poverty score lying between zero and infinity, as for income. Defining poverty as an accumulation of deprivations in various aspects of living conditions,...

Understanding the degree of integration between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is important to measure the impact of the proposed India-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA). If both India and ASEAN are well integrated, the impact of such liberalization will be small and vice...

This paper identifies the rating factors of the Malaysian motor insurance experience using the claim Frequency approach. In the recent years, the Poisson regression has been widely used by the insurance practitioners for modeling claim frequency. However, the Poisson regression assumes that the...

This paper presents results from a CGE model where the twin terms of trade shocks that the Kenyan economy faced in the 1970s have been considered. The paper addresses the question of the robustness of the simulation results from these shocks through sensitivity analysis of key parameters in the...

Ghana has adopted a poverty reduction strategy that emphasizes on an increased focus on poverty reduction in the design and implementation of its policies. The study uses the Ghana Living Standard Survey 4 data for the year 1998-99. It disaggregates the sample into five categories of households,...