Volume 3, Issue 4 (2011) | American Journal of Economics and Business Administration

Forecasting the Spanish Stock Market Returns with Fractional and Non-Fractional Models

Guglielmo Maria Caporale — 2011-12-08

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 8 December 2011; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.586.588

Problem statement: The content of this note was to assess the forecasting accuracy of various models of the Spanish stock market returns. Approach: We use daily data on the IBEX 35 for the time period...

Efficiency in the California Real Estate Labor Market

Dirk Yandell — 2011-12-12

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 12 December 2011; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.589.595

Problem statement: This research explores the extent of market efficiency in the real estate labor market. Given a common commission rate, areas with high average home prices will generate higher agen...

Cost Efficiencies and Rankings of Flagship Universities

G. Thomas Sav — 2012-01-20

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 20 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.596.603

Problem statement: Each state in the U.S. touts a premier university as the flagship of its publicly funded higher education system. With decreased government budgets and increased interest in public ...

Assessment of Correspondent Banks Case Study

Abeer F.A. Al Abbadi — 2012-01-30

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 30 January 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.604.609

Problem statement: This study aims at evaluating corresponding banks in Jordan. Characterizing the goals, instruments and profitability under unfavorable conditions of financial setbacks and unfair co...

New Comer Orientation Training in Manufacturing Industry: A Comparison Analysis Between Indonesian Company and Japanese Company

Wen-Chih Liao — 2012-02-20

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 20 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.610.617

Problem statement: Organization must constantly expands their knowledge, skills and behavior to meet customer need and compete in today’s demanding and rapidly changing business environment. As ther...

Comparison between Financial Ratios Analysis and Balanced Scorecard

Khalad M.S. Alrafadi — 2012-02-20

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 20 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.618.622

Financial ratios have long been used as a tool to evaluate the overall financial performance of a company. However, in early 1990s, a new method called Balanced Scorecard has been introduced by Robert...

Price-Value Potential for Near-Perfectly Competitive Markets

Sergey K. Aityan — 2012-02-21

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 21 February 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.623.635

This study introduces price-value potential to be used instead of price for market analysis by analogy with free energy or thermodynamic potential in physics. A conservation principle is proposed for ...

A Study of Knowledge Management Process Practices in Very Small Software Companies

Shuib Basri — 2012-03-06

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 6 March 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.636.644

Problem statement: Software development is distinct from other types of engineering because the product is intangible, progress is not explicit and team members rely on the documentation of others to ...

Some Effects of Alternative Foreign Currency Translation Methodologies on two Short-Term Liquidity Ratios

Paul E. Holt — 2012-03-08

American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Published online: 8 March 2012; doi:10.3844/ajebasp.2011.645.651

This study focused on two short-term liquidity ratios, the current ratio and inventory turnover and attempted to identify, in terms of empirical properties, if and in what ways foreign currency transl...