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Customers’ adoption of electronic banking: An investigation on the commercial banking industry in Zimbabwe.
Makosana, Musa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The advent of electronic banking offers banking firms a new frontier of opportunities and challenges. This study investigates how social factors, awareness, consumer perceptions and attitudes towards electronic banking influence the adoption of electronic banking in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe little...
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The Structural Relationship Between Current and Capital Account Balance in India : A Time Series Analysis
Chakraborty, Debashis; Mukherjee, Jaydeep; Sinha, Tanaya - 2010
aftermath of the Southeast Asian crisis, the limitation of the liberal capital regime for a developing country like India is … often highlighted in the literature. However, the probable impact of introducing KAC on CAB in India generally is discussed … theoretically. Though some of the existing studies in India have earlier focused on this research question, they have done so by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194754
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Socioeconomic Progress Across the Major Indian States : Converging or Diverging
Goli, Srinivas; Arokiasamy, P.; Reddy, Bheemeshwar - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to examine the progress in socioeconomic conditions across the major states of India by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154852
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Service Sector Led Economic Growth in India and Some Measurement and Database Issues
Saikia, Dilip - 2017
In recent years there has been a rapid and sustained growth of the service sector in the Indian economy. But unfortunately, while the importance of the services is growing statistical data and other relevant information of the services are abysmally low. There are problems relating to the...
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Obesity epidemic: the role of retailing sector in promoting fruit and vegetable consumption
Fioriti, Linda; Marchini, Andrea; Diotallevi, Francesco; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
After a deep review of the main economic studies and applications about the emerging problem of obesity, this paper focuses on a particular aspect of the issue: the improvement of fruit and vegetable purchasing in retailing sector. First of all it has been analyzed the actual presence of...
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Fisheries Management: A new Challenge to Sociology
Moniz, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
As a Norwegian sociologist pointed out recently at the Encontro Internacional de Vilamoura on Fishing, “the fisheries management is the management of people, not fish" This statement may surprise many specialists, but it puts once again a series of questions and problems in their true place:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260089
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Is Market-Oriented Reform Producing a “Two-Track” Europe? Evidence from Electricity and Telecommunications
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The European Commission has formally recognised that adequate provision of basic household services, including energy, communications, water and transport, is key to ensuring equity, social cohesion and solidarity. Yet little research has been done on the impact of the reform of these services...
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Consumer motivations in the purchase of organic food. A means-end approach
Zanoli, Raffaele; Naspetti, Simona - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The paper presents partial results from an Italian study on consumer perception and knowledge of organic food and related behaviour. Uses the means-end chain model to link attributes of products to the needs of consumers. In order to provide insights into consumer motivation in purchasing...
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Building consumers’ confidence in adopting e-commerce: A Malaysian case
Ahmed, Mohiuddin; Hussein, Ramlah; Minakhatun, Rashidah; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Consumers’ confidence on the online transactions is vital for the continuous growth and development of electronic commerce. In the present study, we experimentally investigate the measures of consumers’ perceived security and privacy over online transactions as well as the perceived trust...
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Relative indicators of default risk among UK residential mortgages
Mitropoulos, Atanasios; Zaidi, Rida - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We have assembled a unique loan-level performance dataset for mortgages originated in the UK to study the differences in default likelihood between loans of varying borrower and loan characteristics. We can broadly confirm the relevance of most commonly known riskfactors and find that most...
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