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...

This paper describes the state-of-the-art of mobile payment and how it affects our world. The results of the paper show that advancement of mobile technology is growing and with this comes many new opportunities with mobile payment. With this knowledge, the findings of this research show that...

The internet is a rather new channel for Thai people to conduct banking activities. An existing model was used to evaluate the performance of internet banking in Thailand. This study reveals that a perception of insufficient security is the main factor that discourages people from using internet...

A history of the successful containment of healthcare costs, in addition to the federal government's endorsement of managed care, attributed to increasing numbers of Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) over the past 20 years. Unfortunately, with the increase in the number of organisations,...

The conducted researches indicate explicitly that the assessment of the enterprise on the basis of the nominal value of the financial result and the nominal return on equity can lead to false financial decisions. In economies characterised by high inflation rates, financial results and the...