Traditional capital budgeting models price only systemic risk. However, insurers and banks seek to manage their total risk. With the help of modern information systems and information technology, bankers and insurers are able to get timely information on the risk exposures of their multiple...

This study examines the effect of ownership structure on corporate performance of Thai non-financial firms between 1993 and 1996. The ownership structure is considered as: 1. concentrated ownership, 2. different types of concentrated ownership and 3. managerial ownership. It adopted Market...

Self-Service Banking (SSB) is one instance of the Self-Service Technologies (SSTs) in e-banking. This study examines consumer satisfaction and the long-term usage intention of SSB. In the proposed model, four dimensions of Technology Readiness (TR) (including optimism, innovativeness, discomfort...

Today's uncertain and volatile market conditions require investors to utilise Information Technology (IT) to drive future investment decisions through correct analysis and judgement. Based upon this setting, this study investigates the effectiveness of the portfolio selection model by...

Using a Switching Regime ARCH (SWARCH) model and other time series models, this paper sets out to investigate the volatility of Taiwan's monthly stock market returns, with the empirical results demonstrating that our SWARCH-L specification offers a better statistical fit to this leading stock...

Recently, applying the novel data mining techniques for financial time-series forecasting has received much research attention. However, most researches are for the US and European markets, with only a few for Asian markets. This research applies Support-Vector Machines (SVMs) and Back...

Cheque clearing in the USA is manually intensive, involving multiple handling of the physical cheque. Cheque Clearing for the 21st century (Cheque 21) was passed into a law in October 2003. Cheque 21 allows for banks to truncate cheques and begin transferring their electronic images. Businesses...

This paper describes a comparative study about the issues in the current e-banking services among the young consumers between two nations: China vs. USA. As the attitude and usage of young consumers will be a good indicator for the trend of e-banking service in the future, and different cultures...

This study attempts to shed light on whether land price movements have contributed to fluctuations in bank stock returns. Although the aim of this paper is to see the relationship between land prices and bank stock returns, other macroeconomic factors have also been included in order to use the...

Over the years, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have become a popular and seemingly accurate model to forecast stock prices. This paper proposes data preprocessing using relative movement to improve performance of ANN-based stock forecasting. Both fundamental and technical indicators are...