Search Results - subject:"Independent variables"

Effects of Interaction on E-Learning Satisfaction and Outcome: A Review of Empirical Research and Future Research Direction

Eom, Sean; Laouar, Mohamed Ridda - In: International Journal of Information Systems and Social … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 58-71

We have reviewed several e-learning empirical research studies that have investigated the effects of interaction on satisfaction and outcomes of e-learning, published between 2001 and 2010. Their conclusions seemed inconclusive, ranging from no relationships between interactions and two...

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A Model Augmenting Credit Risk Management in the Banking Industry

Kogeda, Okuthe Paul; Vumane, Nicknolt N. - In: International Journal of Technology Diffusion (IJTD) 8 (2017) 4, pp. 47-65

A lack of reliable credit risk measurements and poor control of credit risks has caused massive financial losses across a wide spectrum of business. Financial institutions like banks have not been able to control and contain the rapid increases of the credit defaulting. In this paper, we address...

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Do Commodity Futures Help Forecast Spot Prices?

Reichsfeld, David A; Roache, Shaun K. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

We assess the spot price forecasting performance of 10 commodity futures at various horizons up to two years and test whether this performance is affected by market conditions. We reject efficient markets based on in-sample tests but, out-of-sample, we find that the forecast from the futures...

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Determinants of Development Financing Flows From Brazil, Russia, India, and China to Low-Income Countries

Mwase, Nkunde - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

BRICs development financing flows have increased significantly and are expected to become more prominent in the post-crisis era. We investigate the potential implications on the country-allocation of loan commitments and the degree of concessionality using a panel vector autoregression model and...

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De Jure Versus De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

There are 22 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with floating exchange rate regimes, de jure. Some target the money supply or the inflation rate; others practice "managed floating." Statistical analysis on monthly data for the past decade reveals that in most cases these exchange rate regimes...

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Financial Linkages Across Korean Banks

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

This paper assesses the interconnectedness across Korean banks using three alternative methodologies. Two methodologies utilize high frequency financial data while the third uses bank balance sheet data to assess banks' bilateral exposures, systemically vulnerable banks, and systemically risky...

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Armenia; An Assessment of the Real Exchange Rate and Competitiveness

Weber, Anke; Yang, Chunfang - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper uses a range of different methodologies to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate in Armenia with both single-country and panel estimation techniques. We estimate a country specific autoregressive distributed lag model and then proceed with the estimation of a cointegrated panel...

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Global Shocks and their Impacton Low-Income Countries; Lessons From theglobal Financial Crisis

Papageorgiou, Chris; Weisfeld, Hans; Pattillo, Catherine A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

This paper investigates the short-run effects of the 2007-09 global financial crisis on growth in (mainly non-fuel exporting) low-income countries (LICs). Four conclusions stand out. First, for many individual LICs, 2009 was not extraordinarily calamitous; however, aggregate LIC output declined...

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Information Rigidity in Growth Forecasts; Some Cross-Country Evidence

Tamirisa, Natalia T.; Loungani, Prakash; Stekler, Herman O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

We document information rigidity in forecasts for real GDP growth in 46 countries over the past two decades. We investigate: (i) if rigidities are lower around turning points in the economy, such as in times of recessions and crises; (ii) if rigidities differ across countries, particularly...

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Value-based management : shareholder value creation and management / Christoff Greyling.

Greyling, Christoffel Jacobus Coetzer - 2010

the independent variables of (1) net assets, (2) turnover, (3) trading profit, (4) operating profit, (5) profit before … dependent and independent variables were chosen based on the insights gained through the literature study and was identified as … relationship that exists between the dependent and independent variables. The Spearman Rank Coefficient is a factor model that …

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