This study investigates the determinants which attract the customers to adopt internet banking in Pakistan by employing internal and external customers, on the sample size of 210 for internal and 151 for external respondents through using the survey research instrument questionnaire. The...

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...

Hindsight of literature, last decadal studies and de facto corporate trends as studied in our empirical research conducted in hand revealed the fact that dividend payouts by the companies and their relative firms' value are based on the two theories i.e.

Electricity market liberalisation has become common practice internationally. The justification for this process has been to enhance competition in a market traditionally characterised by statutory monopolies in an attempt to reduce costs to end-users. This paper endeavours to see whether a pool...

The housing market is special in that houses are immobile, costly and durable. In this paper we look at the determinants of prices of the housing market of Almaty. What affects the prices of houses and apartments? How was the housing market developing during the economic boom and after the...

Asset prices are commonly believed to react sensitively to economic news. The purpose of this article is to investigate following issues: first, what kind of factors affects Romanian equity market returns and second, how well the APT model can explain Romanian equity returns. The paper will...

Asset prices are commonly believed to react sensitively to economic news. The purpose of this article is to investigate following issues: first, what kind of factors affects Romanian equity market returns and second, how well the APT model can explain Romanian equity returns. The paper will...

In classical theory, the risk is limited to mathematical expectation of losses that can occur when choosing one of the possible variants. For banks, risk is represented as losses arising from the completion of one or another decision. Bank risk is a phenomenon that occurs during the activity of...

Drawing on a novel dataset of worldwide venture capital deals, we investigate how venture capitalists (VCs) overcome the complexity of investing in geographically and institutionally distant regions. Our results indicate that syndicating with local VCs is a common way for foreign VCs to gain...