This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...

This paper investigates the technical efficiency of sorghum production and its determinants, using the stochastic frontier production function which incorporates a model of inefficiency effects. Farm level data were collected from a sample of 100 sorghum farmers in Hong local government area of...

Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of access to credit and safety nets on fertilizer adoption in rural Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach –A panel data set collected in 2005 and 2007 on 278 households and over 5,700 plots from the Southern Highlands of...

This is a graduate student story. It mixes personal reflections with recollections of the extraordinary New Zealanders who shaped my thinking as a graduate student and beginning researcher -- people who have had an enduring impact on my work and career as an econometrician. The story traces out...

This work as an empirical economics assessment examined the role of domestic macroeconomic policies with emphasis on the management of the impact of macroeconomic variables on the global financial crisis in Nigeria.. It applies VAR framework on annual time series data from 1969 to 2009. The...

El articulo analiza el efecto de la temperatura, precipitacion, superficie cosechada de temporal y cantidad de trabajo aplicado, sobre la produccion de miel de abeja por colmena en el Estado de Aguascalientes en la temporada de cosecha octubre-noviembre, modelizando una funcion de prediccion...

El objetivo principal de este trabajo es evaluar el grado de interacción social en las decisiones de escolaridad de los adolescentes en Costa Rica. El artículo muestra el alto grado de interacción social en este tipo de decisiones en los datos de Costa Rica. Los resultados obtenidos son...

We examine the risks to bank soundness associated with credit booms in a large set of countries. Using bank-level data in 90 countries between 1995 and 2005, we analyze the relationship between credit growth and bank soundness taking into account the potential two-way causality. We find that,...

This paper attempts to explain the portfolio behaviour of Pakistani banks. Several expected utility models are developed and applied to semi-annual data for the period from 1997 to 2012. The expected utility model commonly reduced to the mean-variance model, of bank portfolio behaviour under...