Women in developing countries invest a larger part of their income in their children’s nutrition, health and education than men (Hoddinott et al., 1995; Strauss et al., 2000; Gammage, 2006; Quisumbing et al., 2006). As a result, financial resources acquired by women bring forth a long-time reduction in...

For oil producing countries it is important to share rationally oil revenues between current expenditure and savings. The purpose of this paper is to study what impact will have change of the oil revenues accumulation on the dynamics of macroeconomic indicators.Modeling of dynamic stochastic...

Investigate how retail investors determine their stock trading through experience to achieve the desired portfolio returns. To examine how retail investors coordinate their expected returns and perceived risk. Verify how retail investors’ trade potentials augment transactions on the stock...

The present papers establishes a framework that allows to investigate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margin of participation in the Fairtrade certification scheme. We use this knowlegde to identify a causal effect of Fairtrade certification on growth in the agricultural sector...

First, we give a concise overview on the nature of Islamic investing by discussing the main opportunities and challenges. Second, we analyze in a thorough empirical study the performance and risk-return characteristics of 145 IEFs over the period January 2000 to February 2009. Third to...

Baumol (1990) famously argues that entrepreneurs are individuals who exploit opportunities, be they in the productive (enterprises) or the unproductive sector (lobbying, rent-seeking, corruption…), and that the prevalence of one or the other type of entrepreneurship depends on the quality of...

Author used the data of Vietnam Population Census 1989, 1999, 2009 and estimated inter regional labor migration function of Vietnam. Based on the method of system approach of Poot (1986), author adapted it to Vietnamese data and also studied the convergence speed of the migration function. The...

One of the most severe problems of the modern world is the climate change and its important negative consequences to the environment. Human activity, particularly the consumption of energy, has been considered being one of the main factors contributing to the changing of climate in the last...

While the Asian Paradox literature evidences a grease-the-wheel effect of corruption on individual firm productivity growth, the results call into question the aggregate effect of individual bribery. A large literature analyzes the drivers of productivity growth at the firm and sector levels,...

Our paper uses a new and comprehensive dataset to investigate the capital structure of non-financial firms in a major emerging market economy, Turkey. We study both statistical and economic significance of four types of leverage factors: Firm-specific, tax-related, industry specific,and...