An empirical study was conducted of employed professionals, representative of the marketing and financial services industry located within the metropolitan section of Pittsburgh, PA, resulting in 191 useable questionnaires. The thrust was to investigate the degree of seriousness on the part of...

This paper specifies and estimates an option price model using non-linear, Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) technique that allows for the incorporation of cross equation correlations and other generalisations. Our results do suggest that this generalisation improves the efficiency of the...

Recent trends in e-finance have shown that mobile technology is growing and with this comes new opportunities for deploying new services for customers. Development of systems on mobile devices can require a lot more resources in the form of development time. There is a lack of documentation as...

Many computerised systems use electronic models that get triggered when certain business conditions arise. Unauthorised triggering of such computerised models has been overlooked in the security literature. In this paper, we propose two frameworks to analyse the security of systems that have the...

This exploratory study examines the success of electronic banking systems implementation in a developing nation environment. We use the DeLone and McLean (D&M) Information System (IS) success model as a theoretical framework to examine the success of IS implementations in one national bank and...

Airline Reservation in developing countries is carried out either manually or electronically. Either methods, reservation and payment operations are done in piece-meal fashion; this is cost prohibitive, time consuming and tedious leading to inefficiency. We present an integrated mobile airline...

Motivated by the growing interest in electronic brokerage firms, we focus our research questions on examining the factors that contribute to acceptance of online trading systems. The research model, based on a Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and added perceived security, perceived privacy and...

This paper intended to evaluate the determinative factors in the price variation of the purchases through e-bidding in Brazil. A survey in 195 e-bidding winners was carried through to test the relation between the price variation and representative variables of transaction-cost theory. Through...

This research aims to investigate empirically the perceived importance of various sources of financial information in relation to various investment decisions in the market, and to explore how the new source, electronic sources of financial information (ESFI), stands in relation to them. This...