The main objective of the research is to find, identify and explain main trends and factors of convergence or divergence between economies and to discuss its conseguences for global inequality and possible future inequality trends. On a dataset of HDP per capita in a group of 150 countries over...

This study discusses the influence of a series of bank-specific factors such as CAR (Capital Adequacy Ratio), OEOI (Operations Expences to Operations Income), NPL (Non Performing Loan), and FBI (Fee-based Income) on ROA as a profitability proxy. Also studied whether commercial banks probability...

Southeast Asia is a growing region in terms of its economic activities characterized by its high economic growth, integration toward global economy and high capital accumulation. Nevertheless, Asian financial crisis in 1997 has disturbed the achievement of some newly industrialized countries...

The market for shipping goods across oceans is particular when it comes to spot shipping rates and its derivatives compared to other asset classes. First, since the underlying of shipping rates is a service, not an asset or commodity, rates cannot be short sold, which leads to an inefficient...

Predicting a future observation on the basis of the existing observations is a problem of compelling practical interest in many fields of study including economics and sociology. Bayesian predictive densities, obtained via a prior specification on the underlying population, are commonly used for...

Islam had formally accepted by the Patani people in the mid 15th century while the tenets of Islam were not fully practiced at the early time. In the early period, it has no clear evidence to indicate that there were pilgrims from Patani to reach Mecca for Hajj. However, the names of religious...

In this study, a business ecosystem of domestic space industry is comprehensively analyzed to derive the influence factors. The priority level of each element as well as the disparity between the ideal and reality is investigated through literature review and expert survey. The three major...

Introduction & Aim: Language is absolutely central to learning: without it, we cannot make sense or communicate understanding of a subject. We will need to develop language skills, and specifically, academic English, in order to communicate information, ideas and arguments effectively, using a...

Basel Accords represent the most important documents of banking supervision. Basel II came into force almost at the same time as the financial crisis set in. Relatively soon after this, the work on the new capital accord known as Basel III was initiated. The question is whether the new agreement...

Facebook (FB) is now considered as the most popular platform for online social networking among university students. The present study aims to investigate whether Facebook would be an effective and easy teaching and learning tool in EFL writing classroom in Prince of Songkla University, Pattani...