The Latin American banking sector has undergone a transformation in recent years because of changes in regulation and globalization as well as developments in telecommunications and information technology. A very important example of this has been financial liberalization wherein Latin America...

We present a simple and systematic process to analyze retention of learning assessment results. We suggested ways to deal with the data before applying any statistical tests. We applied several nonparametric statistical tests for differences in means, medians or entire distributions using actual...

The consideration in the present study is mainly conceptual. The objective is to showhow Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be used to reveal the true input-output relationsin an industry. In the estimation of a production function it is assumed that allfirms use the existing technology...

The consideration in the present study is mainly conceptual. The objective is to show how Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be used to reveal the true input-output relations in an industry. In the estimation of a production function it is assumed that all firms use the existing technology...

We introduce a macroeconomic system which we use for interest rate determination, after which we generate the interest rate risk premium. Considering this risk premium function, we investigate, test and determine the macro-variables which affect the interest rate risk premia by using a...

This paper uses a neoclassical open economy general equilibrium model to determine the effects of the budget deficit and national debt on some key domestic variables while examining the interdependence and repercussion effects between the U.S. economy and the rest of the world. The empirical...

This paper examines the relationship between the stock market price indices and index returns in three major European equity markets, FTSE100 (U.K), DAX (Germany), and CAC40 (France). Our results, obtained using a vector autoregressive (VAR) model, indicate that while the price indices of the...