type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This study examines the time series behaviour of several Angolan macroeconomic variables, using monthly data from August 1996 to June 2011. The series are the inflation rate, M1, M2, the exchange rate at the beginning and the end of the period, and the monthly...</p>

This paper analyses technical efficiency in Angolan banks from 2005 to 2010 with an innovative production frontier model, the <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" altimg="urn:x-wiley:00382280:media:saje12034:saje12034-math-5002" display="inline" overflow="scroll" wiley:location="equation/saje12034-math-5002.png"> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">B</mi> <mtext>-convexity</mtext> </mrow> </math> model. The intermediate approach is adopted. It is observed that the efficiency increases over the observation period, according to the international...

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In the last 15 years or so, ETA activity has substantially decreased, but also changed.Whilst the type of killings has become more specialised (politicians, reporters, etc.), a new phenomenon based on urban guerrilla tactics, and called in Basque “kale borroka” (street fighting), has...

This study examines the long-memory properties of German energy price indices (specifically, import and export prices, as well as producer and consumer prices) for hard coal, lignite, mineral oil and natural gas adopting a fractional integration modelling framework. The analysis is undertaken...

In all sports, organisational training forms a vital component of the activities of sport federations, associations and clubs in order to develop skills as well as to maintain and improve competitiveness. Government finances sport organisation training activities with the aims of improving...