The dissertation consists of three research works about special topics of financial intermediation. The main goal of the first study is to determine the effect of some corporate governance-related variables on bank initial public offerings (IPOs). The testable hypotheses involve three dependent...

The ongoing political, legal, and economic harmonization within the European Union has lead to a higher degree of integration of national financial markets. The introduction of the single European currency, the euro, eliminated a traditional source of risk to international portfolio investors....

Use cases and scenarios are used by most of the object-oriented modeling approaches for capturing users' requirements, analyzing the system and building the test cases. All the different methodologies have different approaches for modeling use cases and applying them to other object-oriented...

As the software industry continues to mature, best practices have been defined to improve the quality and productivity of software development. Adoption rates of these practices are better understood for large organizations as compared to small standalone organizations. Based on surveys and...

This thesis reviews the contemporary work in the area of the role of conjectural variations on the equilibrium price and quantity, in models of the oligopolistic industry. Industry is shown to be capable of producing from the competitive output, to the monopolistic, depending on the conjectural...